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London as Ocean: The Origins and Meanings of an Urban Metaphor

Summary by The Metropole
Editor’s note: This is the eighth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here By Christopher Ferguson In October 2015, “Ann C” of Grantham posted a review on Tripadvisor in which she praised Earl’s Sandwiches in Covent Garden as a “Pearl in the Ocean of London.”  By describing the British capital in this fashion, she invoked a metaphoric construction more than two and half centuries old.[1] …
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The Metropole broke the news in on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
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