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00:00London is a city of change and contrast.
00:07The River Thames reflects the brooding centuries of history and the bright swirl of today,
00:12of life, of now, of the excitements and pleasures of a great capital.
00:17The Tower of London.
00:19Splendours and miseries, deaths and fires.
00:23Music from royal barges and processions of kings.
00:30The Norman Tower among the ancient strong Roman foundations of London.
00:43Music
00:50Sometimes you must look upwards for the contrast, and sometimes downwards.
00:55In the city, commerce is all jumbled up with heraldry.
00:59One minute you're an insurance broker, the next minute you don splendid robes in a dreamlike procession out of the past.
01:05Music
01:25The poses were once to ward off the plague.
01:27Inside the classical banks are liveried messengers with top hats.
01:34But there are also newfangled devices such as telephones.
01:39You are at the heart of commerce.
01:41You are also at the heart of history.
01:43Sometimes when you look up, the signs denote old commercial houses.
01:48Sometimes they denote old ale.
01:52The famous and still popular Cheshire Cheese, haunt of Dr. Johnson, is just off Fleet Street,
01:57where almost every important newspaper in the world has an office.
02:01Fleet Street, the parish pump of Britain.
02:04On the majestic steps of St. Paul's, the typists have an hour for lunch.
02:11The sparrows and pigeons have lunch all day.
02:14Fluttering between the steps and the plumes, sailing in the sky.
02:18Serene above the bustle of commerce.
02:21Change is always round the corner.
02:27Change to sudden oases of quiet.
02:30Names like Amen Corpse, Pasa Nasta Rho,
02:33Ava Maria Lane, Hanging Sword Alley, Bleeding Heart Yard.
02:37To a glimpse of book lined rooms and wide lawns under great trees.
02:42Here the lawyers live.
02:44Thinking.
02:46Thinking here in the quiet.
02:49Loving old gardens and old port.
02:53In these quiet gardens, the human tears in the witness box,
02:56the furious claims and counterclaims are distilled into precise legal terms.
03:04Here is the calm rule of law.
03:07But not calm for long.
03:09It's all in the papers.
03:11Round the corner is Fleet Street again.
03:13The street of change, of news.
03:15The street where they know everything a day or a month before we do.
03:18It's what we do.
03:24ט Solo
03:27We call it Republic of Mayo
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  • hamraza123
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    1 week ago
    Beautiful video to watch
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