I have read that London was once a great city of the ancients,...

I have read that London was once a great city of the ancients, and we live in the cast off cloak of it now, a place long removed from former glory. The ancient world was built by a race of wise giants, hale and hearty in mind and body. They built the great structures – the walls, aqueducts and even the solid expanse of the road we long used – styled now the King’s Road, but once the Roman road. We are but a pale shadow of the world that once was.

Far above the teeming mass of the city rises the White Tower in its glory.”

 

— from the novel Sinful Folk