Artist Damian Hirst sparks controversy as he builds a 67 foot pregnant angel in Ilfracombe
Chambercombe Manor, an 11th Century Manor and BRITAINS MOST HAUNTED HOUSES’.
The George & Dragon, a traditional English pub set in the harbour area of Ilfracombe.
Chambercombe Manor, an 11th Century Manor and BRITAINS MOST HAUNTED HOUSES’.
The George & Dragon, a traditional English pub set in the harbour area of Ilfracombe.
Great Notes on London!!
Columbia Road market on the Saturday—the flower market is Sat which is colorful (you’d think you were in a My Fair Lady set with cockney voices shouting “Lovely Voylets! Tew fer a Foiver!”)—but the shops can be visited any time—a short couple of blocks of mostly paper and household goods done by quirky individual artists—and some gardeny things because of the flower market’s being there. You can easily take a 15 min. bus ride straight to a stop just a block or two away. It’s fairly near the Geffrye museum too, which is like the DAR in that it shows many periods’ interiors in one site, I think it goes from early or mid 18c thru to the 1940s or 50s, and is set in an old 18c charity hospital or old-age housing or something which is cool in itself.
BEST food market is the Borough market next to Southwark Cathedral just on other side of the London bridge. Amazing cheesemongers, bread, etc etc—if you’re near St Pauls or the South Bank (Globe, Tate Modern, etc), walk across and get lunch there. A bit of a madhouse on weekends but open every day.
Covent Garden, Borough, Columbia road, spitalfields, and Brick Lane if that’s the one a few blocks from Spitalfields. Spitalfields was kinda fun altho clearly a lot of people were just buying wholesale from the same people. The shops in the surrounding streets have a lot of attractive accessories and home décor stuff
http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/london/markets.shtml
Columbia road has a good site where you can get a foretaste of the various shops---
http://www.columbiaroad.info/
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgallerylondon
London walks. They are about 2-hour walks around a neighborhood or with a theme. The Clerkenwell one takes you around everything from the St. Johns Hospitallers/Smithfield market going back to medieval days, up to the square where the Art Deco apt building filmed in the Poirot BBC series was, and about everything of interest between; others are more “greatest hits for tourists,” others are special themes like a Harry Potter sites, or Dickens’ or Shakespeare’s London, or an evening pub crawl, or even (not my style) a Jack the Ripper walking tour. They do morning, afternoon, and evening things. They're the best of the walking tour companies and they do have very good guides. http://www.walks.com/
This sounds cool
http://www.britainsfinest.co.uk/historichouses/search_results.cfm/searchcounty/London
Kew Gardens/Palace and Hampton Court, also 5 smaller museums including the Geffrye, the Zandra Rhodes fashion museum, the Florence Nightingale museum (surprisingly well done for something in the lower level of a hospital, it goes a lot into her struggles to get hospitals started during the Crimea, her designs for them, etc). The OLD Tate with good old paintings showing costume from Elizabethan to 18-19c.
Columbia Road market on the Saturday—the flower market is Sat which is colorful (you’d think you were in a My Fair Lady set with cockney voices shouting “Lovely Voylets! Tew fer a Foiver!”)—but the shops can be visited any time—a short couple of blocks of mostly paper and household goods done by quirky individual artists—and some gardeny things because of the flower market’s being there. You can easily take a 15 min. bus ride straight to a stop just a block or two away. It’s fairly near the Geffrye museum too, which is like the DAR in that it shows many periods’ interiors in one site, I think it goes from early or mid 18c thru to the 1940s or 50s, and is set in an old 18c charity hospital or old-age housing or something which is cool in itself.
BEST food market is the Borough market next to Southwark Cathedral just on other side of the London bridge. Amazing cheesemongers, bread, etc etc—if you’re near St Pauls or the South Bank (Globe, Tate Modern, etc), walk across and get lunch there. A bit of a madhouse on weekends but open every day.
Covent Garden, Borough, Columbia road, spitalfields, and Brick Lane if that’s the one a few blocks from Spitalfields. Spitalfields was kinda fun altho clearly a lot of people were just buying wholesale from the same people. The shops in the surrounding streets have a lot of attractive accessories and home décor stuff
http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/london/markets.shtml
Columbia road has a good site where you can get a foretaste of the various shops---
http://www.columbiaroad.info/
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgallerylondon
London walks. They are about 2-hour walks around a neighborhood or with a theme. The Clerkenwell one takes you around everything from the St. Johns Hospitallers/Smithfield market going back to medieval days, up to the square where the Art Deco apt building filmed in the Poirot BBC series was, and about everything of interest between; others are more “greatest hits for tourists,” others are special themes like a Harry Potter sites, or Dickens’ or Shakespeare’s London, or an evening pub crawl, or even (not my style) a Jack the Ripper walking tour. They do morning, afternoon, and evening things. They're the best of the walking tour companies and they do have very good guides. http://www.walks.com/
This sounds cool
http://www.britainsfinest.co.uk/historichouses/search_results.cfm/searchcounty/London
Kew Gardens/Palace and Hampton Court, also 5 smaller museums including the Geffrye, the Zandra Rhodes fashion museum, the Florence Nightingale museum (surprisingly well done for something in the lower level of a hospital, it goes a lot into her struggles to get hospitals started during the Crimea, her designs for them, etc). The OLD Tate with good old paintings showing costume from Elizabethan to 18-19c.