In 1981 I visited St Paul's Cathedral and took some pictures of London from the highest viewing point at the top of the dome and have come back over 40 years later to see how the views have changed! Including Mondial House, Cannon Street Railway station, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, the Monument, The Barbican, Post Office Tower, BT Tower, Centre Point, Blackfriars Railway Station, London Weekend Television Building, ITV, Shell Building, Houses of Parliament, OXO building and NatWest Tower, Tower 42.

In the far distance, Docklands and Vauxhall / Battersea Developments.

St Paul's Cathedral, Whispering Gallery, Stone Gallery, Golden Gallery, Crypt.

I will also cover a bit of history and the practicalities of visiting and information on some of the buildings.

Please stay to the end for all the detail, there has been a lot of change.

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St Paul's Cathedral is located here right in the middle of the City of London. Probably the easiest place to see it from is its opposite, Tate Modern, across the Millennium Bridge.

Some History- incredibly this is the 5th St Paul's on this site, the first being built around 604 AD with the 4th, the Norman Building burning down during The Great Fire of London in 1666.

The current St Paul's Cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and finished in 1710. It has even managed to survive during the blitz in World War 2.

It is built on the highest part of the City of London and incredibly up until 1963 the tallest building in London. By the time I visited in 1981 that had changed, but it was still before the bulk of the sky scrapers we see today were built.

In 1981 it was a really good place to view London from as one of the few high vantage points and despite the gloomy weather on the day we could see some pretty impressive and interesting views.

In addition St Paul's is one of the few buildings in the country that has views of itself actually protected and this has been since 1937 by something called the St Paul's Heights, it is enforced by the City of London Corporation and it does mean we still get some really good views.

Sources:
stpauls.co.uk

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