| Description | View of the east side of Trafalgar Square, looking north from the junction with the Strand towards South Africa House and the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. A policeman is pictured in the middle of the street, halting cars and buses to allow pedestrians to cross the street. The caption on the reverse of the card reads: "Policeman controlling the traffic - nothing surprises the foreign visitor more than the ease with which the London policeman controls the traffic. All day long the tide of vehicles sweeps along the main streets, but at a hand outstretched, without a word, the tide is stayed. Vehicles of every kind, drivers of all stations of life - no one would proceed until the hand moves; no monarch, however absolute, is so implicitly obeyed". Postcard published by Raphael Tuck and Sons. |