Tower Bridge '67

If nothing else Andy this photo illustrates that there can be life after driving on the wrong side of the road.

I rather like this photo, it tells a story, has its own climate - I like that!

Peter, thanks.

Claire, we had roads first, therefore ours is the correct protocol. (Even the French recognise this hence the steering wheel on the correct side of the car)

I rather doubt that my son(who`s 5 now) will find a cd with digital images(yes I have a digicam too) in 38 years and be able to make prints from it...
But my pile of negatives should still be printable
Long live film!

Pardon me. I thought it took some early day Italians to show you what a road is. Here is how I see the situation. There is right and wrong. There is right and left.

The USA has it right in using the right and you are left with the wrong. Pretty straight forward I would say.

Point taken

Nice to see a road without yellow lines and as you say, what are the chances of taking a photograph in London these days and being regarded either as a spy or terrorist. Why couldn't he have waited to have a No. 77 bus in the picture rather than a French car, I ask you.

For what it's worth I find the picture very interesting and informative. Regarding the Right side of the road business, all cars were RHD until 1902/3 when the French, wishing to beat the Germans and especially the English in the Grand Prix, changed the direction of the race around a daytona type circuit two weeks from the race. The English couldn't change their cars in time. The French had changed the steering wheel side and the German Benz was a centre steering vehicle. Look at all of the old vehicles from any part of the world, they are all RHD. This originates from horse drawn vehicles having the brake on the RHS hence the driver was on/in a RHD or driven vehical. The Benz won the event, as it happened. All of Henry's Fords, were RHD in the early days, Mick.

Thanks for the comments all.

North, the French car was my father's, that's why it's in the picture.

Mick, very informative. So.. all those who these days use LHD are aspiring to be European...

Two words: Stirling Moss. You breed that kind of driver, you can drive on whatever side of the road you please, as far as I am concerned! Besides, it is just simply better for right-handed individuals - drive with the right, shift with the left, it just makes sense.