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Two Perfect London Riverside Pubs to Visit this Weekend
Cutty Sark Tavern 4-7 Ballast Quay, Greenwich, SE10 9PD BEERS: Fuller’s London Pride, St Austell Tribute and Greene King Abbot Over the years, customers looking out of the large upstairs windows of this fine pub must have seen thousands of … Continue reading
A Walk Along the Serpentine in Hyde Park
From Hyde Park Corner by the Park Lane subway on the right, following the signs to the Wellington Museum. Turn right at the top of the steps. Go around the front of Apsley House and then turn right through the … Continue reading
Famous Markets in London Part 2
Billingsgate Fish Market Open: Tues-Sat 5am-8.30am Dockland Light Railway: West India Quay Bus: D6, D7, D8, 277 Billingsgate fish market moved to this modern warehouse location in 1982 from Lower Thames Street in the City, from where it had been … Continue reading
The legend of Jack the Ripper
Jack the Rippers Local: The Ten Bells, 84 Commercial Street, E1. The Ten Bells pub is indelibly linked with the legend of Jack the Ripper. Its interior, resplendent with a magnificent tiled wall panel depicting the days when this area … Continue reading
Famous Markets in London Part 1
Spitalfields Organic Market Location: Commercial Street Open: Sun 10am-4pm Tube: Liverpool Street The huge Victorian building, which takes its name from the hospital fields that once occupied this site, was once home to one of London’s largest fruit and vegetable … Continue reading
The Eccentric Side of Covent Garden
Seven Dials, in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields, is one of the oddest and most interesting parts of London. Tucked away between Covent Garden to the south and Bloomsbury to the north, it miraculously escaped wholesale redevelopment in the 1960s … Continue reading
Walking Haunted Great Portland Street to Theatre Land
Start: Great Portland Street Underground Station (Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines) Finish: Piccadilly Circus Underground Station (Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines) Distance : 2.3km (2 miles) Duration: 1¾ hours Best Time: Early on a Sunday morning, when the area … Continue reading
The Kensington Roof Gardens Walk
Start & finish : The Sun Pavilion Time : The very short walk can be completed in under 10 minutes, but allow half an hour more to really enjoy these gardens The Woodland Garden Follow the stream to the fishpond, … Continue reading
Kew to Richmond River Walk
START: Kew Bridge Railway Station or Kew Gardens Underground and Railway Station FINISH: Richmond Underground and Railway Station DISTANCE: 6 miles (10km) REFRESHMENTS: Kew Gardens Station area; Kew Green; Richmond riverside If you are starting from Kew Bridge Railway Station, … Continue reading
What better way to spend a sunny day then in Hyde Park
Location – About 1½ (2.4 kilometres) west of Charing Cross Transport – North side: Queensway, Lancaster Gate and Marble Arch Underground stations (Central Line); south side: Knightsbridge and Hyde Park Corner Underground stations (Piccadilly line). Buses: Bayswater Road 10; 12; … Continue reading
