London in my Time

That is the London I saw and felt when I first became consciously
aware of London. I had been running about it for some years before
that, but it is from the Diamond Jubilee that I date remembered
detail. It was a London that still held many of the fixtures and
much of the atmosphere of what has come to be known as the Dickens'
London. A London of horse-trams with halfpenny fares, and of
hansom cabs; of crystalline bells and spattering hoofs. A London
with winters of slush and fog of a richer sort...