What isn't there to like about this view looking west along Cannon Street in London - taken just a few months before the outbreak of the Second World War during which this part of London would be irrevocably altered by the Blitz. This view shows the street level shops and facades that sat below the mainline station forecourt. Damaged during the war the station was redeveloped in the 1960s - the very mundane block having recently been swept away and replaced with the third major development the site has seen. This animated scene has so much to see. The people moving around, the shop fronts - Bateman's opticians surmounted by a giant pair of spectacle frames - and of transport interest the "Birmingham Guild" style of bus stop post, from the 1920s, with a more contemporary version of the stop flag, and a "London Transport" version of the Underground roundel denoting the tube station entrance that formed part of the facade.