London is one of the most exciting and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Visitors and residents alike appreciate its rich heritage, its fine architecture and amazing diversity of cultures. London's most famous sights range from the historic Tower of London and the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace to the everyday, like its black cabs and red double-decker buses. The City of London, defined by the boundaries of the old city wall, is now Britain's financial heartland, where millions are traded on the stock exchange every day. Yet even here old traditions prevail. The Lord Mayor's Show is a lavish, almost medieval ceremony, and some breweries still deliver beer by horse and dray. Perhaps a city is best typified by its inhabitants. London's friendly policemen and the outrageous punks parading in the King's Road are equally famous. Although a bowler hat is now a rare sight in the City, Beefeaters in traditional red and gold garb or black-gowned barristers scurrying across the lawns at Lincoln's Inn Fields testify to the strength of London's on-going traditions. Captured in the evocative photographs of John Freeman, this book presents a unique and fascinating view of a great city.