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In praise of - ROOFtOPS.

Spires and domes jostle for position.

Crooked charcoal grey tiles make wonky lines to frame the view. In the foreground a gang of gulls squawk and flap for position at the edge of some rusty metal guttering.

"Up where the smoke is all billered and curled," chimed Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins about a chimney sweep's life. "Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world... There's things 'alf in shadow and 'alfway in light. On the rooftops of London coo, what a sight."

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