LONDON AND THE TOWER BRIDGE FROM THE AIR

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

LONDON AND THE TOWER BRIDGE FROM THE AIR

THE FILIGREE PATTERN OF THE GREAT METROPOLIS AS SEEN FROM A HEIGHT OF FIFTEEN. HUNDRED FEET.

A journey to meant for thousands a visit to the Tower and a glimpse of the Thames fi;om , Tower Bridge or the Monument. ■ Exploring, London has been for generations the week-end pastime of thousands of citiaen-adventurers, in whom the Wanderlust still burns-of an evening ut front .of secluded fireplaces. They can lead no expedition save that of catching a bus, so they satisfy the call of romance by delving »" • . .-..J *he- past of 'their city so rich ; in heirtopms of history. Perhaps, in some three-dimensional age that is approaching, exploring London and the TfeWer wifl bare another meaning.i- From a hoverinx •• r ®P** n * 4 y® «hall to able to *irsle over the ancient fortress and see pan#rama of London's histocy unfold with the filigree pattern • of to architecture before our eyes. In the haxe of autumn noonday, or 'in the shades of lowering evening clouds, we shall pursue 1 nights or urban romance, not remembering earlier aviators in the moonlight whose thoughts while over the City of London were on the bombs " ®h*y were to release; nor envisaging a possible future destruction that might come from the air in a world-war Still more fearfuL ' ;v s '' '' 1 ■' '• ; ' :'• '•• .... ■ —"Graphic.'*