Free London Now !!!

[molly bloom]

Well actually, not quite now, but on the weekend of 17th-18th September, when diverse properties in boroughs across London will yet again be part of the Open House experience.


Many properties not normally open to the public will be showing off their best features, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, B.B.C. Bush House, Lambeth Palace and so on.

http://londonopenhouse.org/london/search/search.asp

Where I live there's a couple of Norman churches, one with recently discovered 750 year old wall paintings, the United Kingdom's oldest and largest tidal mill, and modern buildings from Stratford to Docklands.

http://londonopenhouse.org/london/buildings_guide.html

If there's any Poly posters not from the U.K. in London that weekend, it's a great opportunity to see buildings or parts of buildings you wouldn't normally see.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Free London Now !!!

Really?!? Where can I get one?

[molly bloom]

Re: Re: Free London Now !!!

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Really?!? Where can I get one?

Come round to my used car lot, I have a London Bridge, a bridge in Brooklyn, and some scrap metal in the form of a tower in Paris for sale too.


There's one you'd really like Che- The Marx Memorial Library:


Address 37a Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU


Opening Times Sat
Sun 11am-4pm
Regular tours.

Last entry 3.30pm.

Key

Description Grade II listed, built as a Welsh Charity School, a library since 1933. Lenin worked here 1902-03 and his office is preserved. Fresco on first floor. Late 15C tunnels.

Architect Sir James Steere
Year 1737.

Entry Areas Lenin Room, lecture hall, reading room, basement tunnels.

How to get there Nearest Tube: Tube/Rail: Farringdon
Bus Routes: 55,63,243

[chequita guevara]

Sweet!

[Dauphin]

Clerkenwell Green is a nice place for the pubs too. Just across the way from Leather Lane (which my office overlooks).

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Clerkenwell Green is a nice place for the pubs too. Just across the way from Leather Lane (which my office overlooks).

Working in Clerkenwell

And the nearby Betsey Trotwood on the Farringdon Road has bands playing in the cellar. My band plays there regularly.

[Provost Harrison]

Unfortunately I will be out of the country that weekend...

[molly bloom]

Among what's on offer where I am:

Newham

Let us introduce you to the Royal Docks, the easternmost sector of the former port area which started to be redeveloped in a major way from the 1980s to include London's new fifth airport City Airport.

The Albert, Victoria and George V docks were the largest enclosed docks in the world. We start with the amazing contrasts between the impressive new Excel conference and exhibition centre and the adjacent solid 19th century wharehouses which are now being transformed and refurbished. For diverse new uses. A new pedestrian footbridge takes across the dock to the new village and then we end in the Thames Barrier Park with the chance to enjoy the natural park, relax in the café and marvel at the 1980's modern wonder the Thames Barrier which now protects central London from flooding. Meet Royal Victoria DLR station.

http://www.aptg.org.uk/freewalks.html

I'll be going here:

[Provost Harrison]

Newham? Pah! I'll raise you a Greenwich

[Cort Haus]

and I'll trump it with Camden and take a stroll to Mornington Crescent to win the game!

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Newham? Pah! I'll raise you a Greenwich

Are you trying to start a new game of Mornington Crescent?

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
and I'll trump it with Camden and take a stroll to Mornington Crescent to win the game!

Damn!!

Well done Cort Haus

[Spiffor]

Cort Haus clearly doesn't deserve any congratulations. He used a crude, and - dare I say - ugly way to win. No style, no class. It was quick and dirty. Dare I say it, Cort Haus played like an American.


Canon's Park

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Hueij

Are you trying to start a new game of Mornington Crescent?

Nope, nor is there any such station as Camden. Camden Town, perhaps. You forfeit the game

[Cort Haus]

Thanks, Hueij. It was a little sneaky to hit zone two by getting off at Hendon, hitching a lift up the M1 and taking a mainline from Watford into Euston, but with the engineering works at Belsize Park what choice did I have?

Still, beats the Docklands Light Railway this time of night. Newham, Greenwich - what chance did they have?

OK, I'll be less aggressive this round and take a double Allerdici handicap (Lancashire Rules, if that's ok) on the Picadilly Line and get flung out to Park Royal. With the Hanger-Lane vortex that should hold me back for a turn or two.