Once again, I am using some fairly old scans on this "Anything Goes Saturday". The images are from Yurp!
How's this for an impressive photo? That bridge is waaaaay up there! And it is cool to see the old steam locomotive chugging along. There was no indication of where this was (and there was no date on the slide), but I eventually determined that this is the Forth Bridge (it crosses the Firth of Forth - let the puns begin!) in eastern Scotland. The track runs roughly 150 feet (46 meters) above the water.
Here's the Forth Bridge under construction; it opened to rail traffic in 1890. For nearly 40 years it was the longest single cantilever bridge in the world. Quite the engineering marvel!
Here's a vintage postcard; if you look in my scan you'll see a small cupola in the lower right... that same structure is visible on this postcard!
This next shot is a look at Piccadilly Circus, the famous roundabout in London's West End. There are no monkeys at this circus, however. Just lots of cars, and some gigantic advertisements. Bovril! Coca-Cola! Schweppes! Slim Jims! Just kidding, no there were no Slim Jims to snap into in 1953. As far as I know.
The fountain is known as the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, with Anteros (Eros' brother) perched on top. Lord Shaftesbury was a politician and philanthropist, but he did not have a Disneyland photo blog, so I am not that impressed.
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