Oh me Oh my!!! here you are with just 3 days in London and it’s raining!!!! Now what? You can’t go watch the Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace, no point taking the Hop-on Hop-off bus, unless you enjoy sitting in a downpour and getting soaked! Can’t stand in the queue at The London Eye (for . . . → Read More: things to do on a rainy day in London
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 Leave a comment  Art Galleries, free things to do in London, things to do in London, what to see when in London  British Museum, clockmakers museum, hunterian museum, john soanes museum, Museum of London, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, petrie museum, pollocks toy museum, science museum, Victoria and Albert Museum detail on Cleopatra's Needle – London CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE – Cleopatra’s Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the 19th century. The London and New York obelisks are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different site where its twin remains. . . . → Read More: Cleopatra’s Needle – Victoria Embankment, London BOW STREET – is the site of the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE!! Royal Opera House, Bow Street London it also features as one of the streets on the standard LONDON MONOPOLY board. The area around BOW STREET was developed by FRANCIS RUSSELL, 4th Earl of Bedford in the 1630′s. I recently took a group of people on a tour of Bloomsbury and one of the places we walked through was Sicilian Avenue. Sicilian Avenue, Bloomsbury Sicilian Avenue is a delightful splash of Italy tucked away on the apex of Southampton Row and Bloomsbury Way. Designed by R.J. Worley and completed in 1910 as a pedestrianised shopping . . . → Read More: Sicilian Avenue, Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Not until 1201 was the name ‘Bloomsbury’ first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land – The name Bloomsbury is a development from Blemondisberi – the bury, or . . . → Read More: Bloomsbury and Bloomsbury Square If your’e on holiday in London and wondering what to see and do then do visit The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in Malet Place the entrance to the museum is to the left along this narrow road on the UCL complex Based within the confines of UCL, just off Torrington Place in Bloomsbury and just a . . . → Read More: The Petrie Museum – a FREE museum in London Bronze sculpture. Bill Woodrow's 'Sitting On History' Bronze sculpture. Bill Woodrow’s ‘Sitting On History’ was purchased for the British Library by Carl Djerassi and Diane Middlebrook in 1997. The British Library is the national library of . . . → Read More: one photo tour of London – The British Library Queen Victoria Memorial – Buckingham Palace At the centre of Queen’s Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace and dedicated to Queen Victoria. The Queen Victoria Memorial was dedicated in 1911 by George V and his first cousin, Wilhelm II of Germany, the two senior grandsons of Victoria. The sculptor was Sir Thomas Brock. It was completed with . . . → Read More: one photo tour of London – Queen Victoria Memorial Canada Memorial, Green Park The Canada Memorial in Green Park, erected in 1992, behind Canada Gate, is a tribute to the 113,663 members of the Canadian Forces killed during World Wars I and II. Designed by the late Canadian sculptor Pierre Granche, the Canada Memorial was unveiled by HM The Queen in 1994. Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London Wellington Arch, or Constitution Arch, at Hyde Park Corner stands in the centre of a huge traffic island. The archway, was designed by Decimus Burton, and erected in 1828 as a memorial to Sir Arthur Wellsley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and Prime Minister and crowned by a giant statue of . . . → Read More: one photo tour of London – Wellington Arch |
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