London by night

London – A multitude of people, and yet a solitude

Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace – the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom

 

“Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless, starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets, at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.”

Charles Dickens

 

Sherlock Holmes House - Baker Street Nº221B
Sherlock Holmes House – Baker Street Nº221B

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, stated by Sherlock Holmes

 

Baker Street-Tube Station
Baker Street-Tube Station: It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground railway, opened in 1863
“The Only Man Ever to Enter Parliament with Honest Intentions”

“Remember, remember, the 5th of November/ gunpowder, treason and plot./ I know of no reason, why the gunpowder treason/ should ever be forgot.”

 

London Eye
London Eye

On November 5 1605, Guy Fawkes and his accomplices intended to blow up the English parliament, including the king and most of the aristocracy, because “all this injustice is done to us in this place.”

 

Palace of Westminster: Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London
Palace of Westminster: Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London

They were caught and sentenced to death. They were strangled, gutted and quartered alive.

 

Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge

 

Four centuries later, Guy Fawkes became a symbol of general distrust of the political class.

 

 

 

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