Suggested Itinerary for Week in London
tc1...@pipeline.com
looking for an itinerary of top sights to see. We are interested in
British history and have already obtained tickets to see the House of
Commons and tour the Palace of Westminster, but wonder if anyone has
a pre-developed itinerary with suggested amounts of time to spend at
each attraction? I want to see as much as possible since I doubt we
will have another opportunity. If anyone has such an itinerary,
please forward to tc1...@pipeline.com. Many thanks!
Tony
J J MIO
LONDON SEE & DO
http://www.adnama.force9.co.uk/act_7.htm things to see and do
http://www.demon.co.uk/hotel-uk/markets.html flea mkts
http://www.thisislondon.com London’s current events
http://www.londontransport.co.uk/ Transportation
http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/ Theatres
http://golondon.miningco.com/ Things To Do; London
For Visitors
http://www.cults.demon.co.uk?index.htm British Gardens
http://www.fortunecity.com/boozers/harry/444/london.html
http://www.LondonTown.com/
http://uk-pages.net/ukframes_v.shtml
http://www.visitbritain.com/
http://www.uktravel.com/index.html
http://www.castlewales.com/home.html Wales Castles
http://www.timeout.com/
http://www.virtual-london.co.uk/
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/
http://www.livesights.com/cgi-bin/VideoPages.plx
http://www.bestfares.com
http://www.cheapertravel.com
http://ww.britrail.co.uk British rail
1-800-893-0060
British Tourist Authority 551 Fifth Ave. #701 NY, NY 10176 also
1-800-GO2-BRIT
Orig Lndn Sightseeing Tours 6 starting points (Vic Sta. Picadilly, etc)
9:30-5pm £13
Orig Lndn Walks 44-171 624 3978 several walks from listed tube
stations £5
http://london.walks.com
Backstage Tours Varying hours £4 Theatre Royal Drury Lane
U=London Br
Law Courts Strand (Holburn Tube) Open during sessions M-F 10:30-1, 2-4
Old Baily Newgate St (St Paul’s Tube) Public Gallery open M-F 10-1, 2-4
The courts in the new building are enterd from the Old Bailey;
in the old building from Newgate St
Globe Theatre Daily 10-5 tours every 30 minutes £5 U=London Bridge
London Dungeon Daily 10-5:30 £9 U=London Bridge
Madame Tussards Daily 10-5:30 £9 U=Baker St.
HMS Belfast South bank of Thames near London Br. £4.40 U=London Br.
Kew Gardens Daily 9:30-4 £4.40 U=Kew Gardens
Holland Park Behind KensingtonHigh St U=High St Kensington
Hampton Court Tu-Sun 9:30-6 Train from Waterloo, Boat from Westminister Pier
Thames Barrier
Canal Museum 12 New Wharf Rd Tu-Sa 10-4:30 Train from King’s Cross
Sir John Soane's Museum at Lincoln's Inn Fields
St Paul’s M-Sat 8:30-4 See whispering gallery, crypt U=St Paul’s
Tower of London M-Sat 9-5 £8.30 U=Tower Hill
Westminister Abb. M-Sat 9-3 special tours U=Westminister
Windsor Castle Daily 10-4 £10
GALLERIES & MUSEUMS
Nat’l Portrait Gal. M-Sat 10-6; Sun N-6 U=Leicester Sq
Nat’l Gallery 2000 paintings M-Sat 10-6; Sun N-7 U=Charing Cross
Tate Gallery M-Sun 10-6 £5 U=Pimlico
Vic & Albert Mo-Sa 10-5, Sun 2:30-5:30 U=Kensington High
Coutaud Gallery Somerset House, Strand U=Covent Garden, Temple
Impressionist and Post-Impressionists M-S 10-6
Apsley House Home to 1st Duke of Wellington Tu-Sun 11-5 £4
U=Hyde Park Corner
Bank of England M-F 10-5 U=Bank
British Museum M-Sat 10-5 Sun 2:30-6 U=Tottenham Court Road
Fan Museum Tu-Sat 11-4:30; Sun N-$:30 £3 BR=Greenwich
Geffrrye Mus. English domestic interion from 1600 to present
Tu-Sat 10-5; Sun 2-5 U=Liverpool St then bus 22
Guards Mus. Open 10-4 (closed Fri) Birdcage Walk U=St James Park
Imperial War Mus. Daily 10-6 £5 U=Lambeth North
Kew Br. Steam Mus Next to Kew Bridge Daily 11-5 £2-4 U=Gunnersbury, Kew
Gardens
London Canal Mus Special talks Tu-Sun 10-4:30 12 New Wharf Rd £3
U=Kings Cross
Toy & Model Mus Daily 9:30-5:30 £5 Daily 9-5:30 21 Craven Hill
U=Paddington
Transport Mus Daily 10-6 £5 çovent Gardens U=Covent Gardens
MOMI Mus Of Moving Images Children and adults Daily 10-6 £6+
South Bank Centre U=Waterloo
Mus of London Tu-Sat 10-5:30; Sun N-5:30 £4 150 London Wall
U= Barbican, Moorgate
Nat’l Army Mus Soldiers from Tudor to now Daily 10-5
Royal Hosp Rd Chelsea U=Sloan Square
Nat’l Maritime Mus Daily 10-5 £5.50 Old Royal Observatory & Queens House
Greenwich
Natural History Mus Plant & animal Tours hourly Daily 10-5:30 £6 U=South
Kensington
Science Mus Daily 10-6 £3 Exhibition Rd U= South Kensington
S. Holmes Mus Daily 9:30-6 21 Baker St £5 U-Baker St
Theatre Mus Tu-Sun 11-7 £5.50 Russell Square U=Covent Garden
Vic & Albert Mus Tu-Sun 10-5:30; Mon N-5:30 £5 U=South Kensington
Britain at War Daily 10-4:30 £6 64 Tooley St U=London Bridge
MARKETS
New Caledonia Friday 6-2 The flea market for the die-hards 3/4 mile SW of
Tower Undergrnd
Camden Passage Sat 8-5, Wed 7-4, Thur 7-4 U=Islington, Camden Passage
Camden Antiq Mkt Th-Sun U=Camden
Portebello M, Tu, Wed, Fri 8-6; Thur 8-1; Sat 7-6
Petticoat Lane Sun 9-2 Middlesex St U=Liverpool St, Aldergate,
Aldergate
Brixton Mkt Fri 9-4 U=Brixton
Gray’s Antique Mkt & Mews 58 Davies St U=Bond St
Jack
benh...@aapi.co.uk
history and I live here, so may I have a go ?
I start by remembering that your interest is history, so I have not
tried to include beautiful views, fine buildings, famous tourist
dspots, and so on, unless they say something about our history. I
drew up two lists. The first was places to reflect on major periods
of the British past. The second was the same list, but turned into a
programme from east to west, to stop you wasting time zig-zagging
around London.
The order by period is this.
Museum of London: London's history from the old stone age to now
The Sutton Hoo ship burial, shown upstairs in the British Museum.
Anglo Saxon
Tower of London: Norman
Westminster Abbey: medieval, various centuries
The Church of St Batholomew the Great: twelfth century
Temple Church: thirteenth century
Hampton Court: Tudor
The National Maritime Museum: seventeenth century
St Bartholomew's Hospital Great Hall: eighteenth century benevolence
Sir John Soane's Museum: eighteenth century taste
Dr Johnson's House: eighteenth century learning
Parliament: nineteenth century
Florence Nightingale Museum: nineteenth century
The National Portrait Gallery: mostly for the nineteenth centuiry
The Cabinet War Rooms: mid twentieth century
Brick Lane: late twentieth century: a multi-cultural London
Now an order that cuts down travel time.
Day One. Start with a morning in the Museum of London, St Paul's
tube, to get a picture of the last 2000 years. The museum is open
weekdays ten to five fifty. Central line to Liverpool Street, and
walk 300 yards east to Brick Lane, for a Bengali lunch. If you want
your curry very moderate you ask for Khorma. But the waiter will
gladly advise you. Look at fellow lunchers: curry is now as British
as fish and chips. Go from Aldgate East tube to Tower Hill tube (only
one stop, but it's a dull walk) and see the Tower, open Sunday and
Monday ten to five, other days nine to five.
Day Two. Start at Farringdon or St Paul's tube, and see the Church of
St Barthomolew the Great, and the Great Hall at St Barthomolew's
Hospital. I think both are open about ten to four thirty. Walk
westward past the Old Baily, along Holborn Viaduct, and at Holborn
Circus turn south onto New Fetter Lane. At the end of that is Dr
Johnson's House. Visit a pub he may have liked, the Old Cheshire
Cheese, but don't lunch there. There's a better lunch upstairs in the
Devereaux, just west of the Inns of Court (ask any lawyer the way).
In the Temple, see the Temple Church, built by an order of Crusaders.
Day Three. Start upstairs at the British Museum (tube Holborn) to see
the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the funeral ship of an Anglo Saxon prince.
If you've not read "Beowulf" you might try it now. You can spend days
in the BM, but there's no point if you want a week of British history.
The BM is open on weekdays ten to five. Go east along High Holborn to
Lincoln's Inn Fields, and see Sir John Soane's museum. There's a
decent lunch upstairs in a pub hidden behind Holborn tube station on a
pedestrian alleyway: it may be called The Ship. Now hop on a bus to
Trafalgar Square: the best views from the bus are upstairs. Your tube
and rail pass covers busses too, if you bought it in England. Just
short of Trafalgar Square is the National Portrait Gallery
Day Four. Westminster Abbey, which I think is open from nine to four
thirty. The Cabinet War Rooms, west of Whitehall along King Charles
Street, open weekdays 9.30 to 6. Parliament. Walk over Westminster
Bridge (Do you know Wordsworth's Ode from there ?), and over on the
south bank, in the end of St Thomas' Hospital nearest the bridge, is
the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Day Five. The Science Museum, open weekdays ten to six. Also your
choice of a nearby spot: Kensingtion Palace, the Victoria and Albert
Museum, or the Natural History Museum. A good lunch six doors from
South Kensington tube station is Polish, the Daquise, but those
streets have ethnic cooking from about five countries.
Day Six. A train from Waterloo Station to Hampton Court Palace, open
Tuesdays to Sundays 9.15 to 4.30. I think they sell a combined train
and entry ticket at Waterloo.
Day Seven. A boat from Embankment along the river to Greenwich, to
see the National Maritime Museum and perhaps the Royal Observatory.
They are open daily ten to five. All three pubs in the old market at
Greenwich do decent lunches, but the best is in the Mitre pub, next to
the splendid St Alphege Church. Come back by train to Charing Cross.
Or if you want to think a little about your own history, take a late
afternoon bus two miles upstream to Rotherhithe, and see the outside
of the Church of St Mary Rotherhithe and the inside of the Msyflower
pub (the quality of their supper is variable). It was here that the
Pilgrim Fathers took ship for Holland and so for New England.
You'll see that this is by no means a standard tour of famous sights.
Rather, it is a meditation on how we came to be the people we now are.
So I expect questions will arise, or a call for re-casting in some
way: please feel very welcome to write to me.
Welcome to my city.
Ben Haines
JMooreTS
>I'm afraid I've no ready-made itinerary, but I have a degree in
>history and I live here, so may I have a go ?
What a wonderful, thoughtful post. It was nice of you to put so much effort
into the reply.
John
MsBetze
I did not have the opportunity to read your original posting on the
London itinerary, but I am also planning a trip that will last for a
week and would really appreciate it if you would forward, by email, the
advice you received along with the email addresses from the senders.
Also, if you plan on going before Summer, I'd like to hear your 1st
hand experiences. It's been 13 years since my last London trip, and I
don't think that I will be frequenting the night clubs like I used to.
(Then again, you never know!!!)
Thanks for your help
Mary Hannah
MsB...@MSN.com
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