I do love the water steps down to the river, where you can imagine Samuel Pepys hailing a boatman to whisk him from Whitehall to Greenwich, or Christopher Marlowe slipping aboard a wherry at Deptford to escape a London that has become too hot for even him to handle...
I do love the water steps down to the river, where you can imagine Samuel Pepys hailing a boatman to whisk him from Whitehall to Greenwich, or Christopher Marlowe slipping aboard a wherry at Deptford to escape a London that has become too hot for even him to handle...
Absolutely - they are so atmospheric, just dripping in history - literally! ;)