Along The Southwark

Our visit to the Tate Modern was redeemed by the ensuing walk along the Southwark, the "other" side of the river, Shakespeare country, and home to many other notables and notable sights. The highest point was Southwark Cathedral, which I'll treat in the next post, but there were many high points. 

The Globe Theater; as I noted in an earlier post, we were groundlings
there for a performance of Merchant of Venice, although neither
of us can remember when exactly nor whether Rachel and Rebecca
were with us...but then we were also in the audience, seated, for
other performances, other years

A poet set up outside the the theater, taking an order from a
young customer

Skyline past Southwark Bridge

Mural of the Bard beneath the bridge

Heading toward the Clink

Now just a museum, of course

All that remains of the bishops' Winchester Palace,
one of the great buildings of Medieval London

Replica of Drake's Golden Hinde, in which he
and his crew circumnavigated the earth, 1577-1580;
also stopping along the way to raid assorted Spanish
cities, etc., in the New World

Spare parts

Tower of Southwark Cathedral; and the Shard; see next post

Dickens country too

Hayes Galleria; formerly Hayes Wharf, one of the big ones on

the river in Victorian times; where we stopped for drinks and

a rest; in time, everything becomes a restaurant; or a shopping 

mall

Tower Bridge, which we then walked across

Approaching, of course, The Tower (dark, forbidding music...)

Looking past the Tower complex to the City

Tower Bridge from Tower moat

Contrasts...

At the Roman wall, a consul welcomes us back
to Londinium