Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1919 — OLD LONDON MADE MODERN [ARTICLE]

OLD LONDON MADE MODERN

Circumstances Under Which the Traveler May See All That He Has Traveled Far to See. St. Etheldreda, in Ely place, Holborn, London, is one of the old city churches about which Dickens declared a full half of his pleasure in them arose from their mystery. That they existed in the streets of London was a sufficient satisfaction to him, but possibly he would have added St Etheldreda to the list of the three famous old churches whose names he admitted were household words, if, on his night walks abroad he had heard the watchman cry the hour, as Etheldreda’s watchman does to this day. Old London, lurking up byways and round corners, is still to be discovered by the curious who carry the lantern of a certain knowledgeableness. The cry, “Past ten, past eleven,” from the watchman of the church with the Saxon name, lying off Holborn - with its asphalted pavements and motor buses, bears witness to the assertion.