This page covers 2004-2006. More recent photos can be found on page 2.

London, the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, seat of the monarchy, centre of the dissolved Empire. In September 2004 I went to visit Mr Bidwell in Hemel Hempstead, and spent a couple of days in London. As you might expect, this wasn't nearly enough time to get around everything. In particular, I did see:

• The British Museum - free admission!
• St. Paul's Cathedral - where, by the way, you cannot photograph inside
• Buckingham Palace
• The Houses Of Parliament

Buckingham Palace.	Guards at the palace.
Queen Victoria.	Buckingham Palace.
The Mall.	Westminster Abbey.
Westminster Abbey.	Big Ben, The Houses Of Parliament.
Clock faces.	The London Eye and the Saatchi Gallery.
George saw London, and it was good.	The Houses Of Parliament, by Charles Barry and AWN Pugin.
The Cenotaph.	Whitehall.
Admiralty Arch.	Trafalgar Square & The National Gallery
The British Museum.	ß in The Great Hall.
The Great Hall.	One of the Elgin Marbles.
A classical statue.	The Elgin Marbles.
The river Thames and The Houses Of Parliament.	St. Paul's Cathedral.
London.	More of London, from the Stone Gallery in the dome of St. Paul's.
The view of the ground from the top (the Golden Gallery, roughly 280 feet high).	St. Paul's Cathedral, by Wren.
ß on the tube.	The Wellington Arch (Constitution Arch).

I had reason to make a quick visit to London again in December 2004.

The Natural History Museum, by Waterhouse.	Westminster Abbey.
The Royal Albert Hall.	The Albert Memorial, by George Gilbert Scott.

And March 2005.

St. Pancras Hotel, by George Gilbert Scott.

And for a little holiday in June 2005. This time we did:

• The Natural History Museum - fantastic
• Tate Modern
• The National Gallery
• The London Eye
• The Victoria & Albert Museum
• The British Library
• St. Pancras Chambers - amazing

The Natural History Museum.	They have a tyrannosaur!
Carnival of the animals.	Victoria & Albert Museum.
Westminster.	St. Paul's.
Pip on the London Eye.	Tate Modern, previously Bankside power station, by Giles Gilbert Scott.
St. Paul's.	The grand staircase of St. Pancras (St. Pancras Chambers/Midland Grand Hotel).
Interior of St. Pancras.

August 2005.

The V & A has a gigantic cast of Trajan's Column.	The V & A.
	Old National Provincial Bank.
The Bank Of England.	The City.
The Royal Exchange.	Prudential Offices, Holborn.
Chancery Court Hotel.	Maughan Library, Chancery Lane.

Autumn 2005.

The Sovereign's Entrance at The Palace Of Westminster.	Window in Westminster Hall.
Westminster Hall, 900 years old.	The Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey).
Justice.	The Guildhall.
Hyde Park.	Marble Arch.
The Science Museum.	Charles Babbage's brain.
Westminster.	Tower Bridge.
The Port Authority building.	Piccadilly Circus.
The Horse Guards.	Cleopatra's Needle.
The Royal Courts Of Justice.	The city boundary.
Lincoln's Inn.	The Monument.
London.
Southwark Cathedral.	HMS Belfast.
The Golden Hinde.	Victoria Tower Gardens.
The Ministry Of Defence, by E. Vincent Harris.
The Tate Gallery.	The Royal Albert Hall.
Alexandra Palace.	The British Museum.
The Admiralty.	Queen's Tower at Imperial College.
Senate House.	Temple Church, Inner Temple.
The knights in Temple Church.	St. Stephen's church, Hampstead.
BBC Broadcasting House.	The Royal Academy Of Art.
The Foreign Office, by George Gilbert Scott.	Portobello Road, Notting Hill.
Brompton Cemetery.	The Royal Chelsea Hospital.
Battersea Power Station.	Bush House, Kingsway.
Harrod's, Knightsbridge.	Temple Bar, reconstructed near St. Paul's.
St. James's Palace.	Kensington Palace.
University College.	Middlesex Guildhall.

2006.

Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square.	Westminster (Catholic) Cathedral.
Vauxhall Cross, the home of MI6.	Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Liberty's department store.	The Palace Of Westminster.
St. Paul's looms over Temple Bar and the column of Paternoster Square.	The jewel tower of the old Palace Of Westminster.
The Millennium Dome.	The Cutty Sark.
The painted hall at the old Royal Naval College.	The old Royal Naval College.
The Queen's House, Greenwich.	The Royal Observatory.
The metropolis, as seen from Greenwich.
The Royal Observatory.	The Prime Meridian.
The Royal Albert Hall.	Brompton Oratory and the V&A.
The Guildhall.	Gog (R) and Magog (L), giants said to have been killed by Brutus when he was founding New Troy.
Mansion House.	The Guildhall library.
The London Stone, said to be the altarpiece of Brutus' temple, or alternatively the Roman milestone marking the centre of Londinium.	Leadenhall Market.
Smithfield Market.	Apsley House.
Methodist Central Hall.	St. James' Park.
Banqueting House, the last remnant of Whitehall Palace.	Burlington House.
Banqueting House.	Methodist Central Hall.
Westminster Abbey.	Lincoln's Inn.
Charterhouse.	The Old Curiosity Shop.
The City Temple.	High Holborn.
Staple Inn.	Freemasons' Hall.
The Royal Opera House.	Westminster Council House.
St. James The Less, Pimlico.	Madame Tussaud's and the Planetarium.
WWII bunker, near Goodge Street.	Supposed residence of Sherlock Holmes.
Westminster.
Flyby.
The Mall bedecked for the Trooping The Colour.	Buckingham Palace.
Somerset House.	The Imperial Airways building.
Imperial College (Royal School Of Mines).	The Royal College Of Music.
South Kensington.	Barker's, Kensington.
Brompton Oratory.	Brompton Oratory.
Sion Hall.	Winchester Palace.
The City Of London School.	Charing Cross.

Pip and I visited Windsor and Eton in July 2006. Although not within Greater London, it is but a day's march away and hence is included here. Both towns are lovely, and feel exceedingly English. The castle stands on a hill next to the Thames, and is the highest point for miles around.

Eton College Chapel.	Eton College.
The walls of Eton were inscribed with this wonderful calligraphic graffiti.	Eton chapel.
Eton library.	Windsor Castle perched on its hill overlooking Eton, across the Thames.
Windsor Castle. On the left is St. George's Chapel, and on the right is the Round Tower.
Windsor Castle towers over the town.	Windsor Castle.
The upper ward of Windsor Castle.	St. George's Chapel. One can see how high up Windsor Castle is.
St. George's Chapel.	St. George's Chapel.
The Long Walk, in Windsor Great Park.

2006.

The National Maritime Museum.	The Royal College Of Organists.
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square.	All Saints' Church, Margaret Street.
The Royal Institute Of British Architects.	The Wellington Arch quadriga.
The chapter house of Westminster Abbey.	Hyde Park Corner, with Decimus Burton's screen.
South Kensington.	London.
The Royal Exchange.	Gray's Inn hall.
Lincoln's Inn chapel.	Lincoln's Inn chapel.
The Metropolitan Tabernacle.	The Imperial War Museum.
Carreras cigarette factory.	The Royal Victoria Patriotic Building.
St. Olave's, Hart Street.	St. John's Gate.
Atkinson's building, Mayfair.	The remains of the Royal Doulton potteries on the south bank.
St. Charles Hospital, North Kensington.	St. John The Baptist, Kensington.
St. John The Baptist.	St. Stephen's Tower.
Trinity Hospital, Greenwich.	Crosby Hall, Chelsea.
The old Royal Naval College.	The chapel at the Naval College.
St. Katherine's Church, Regent's Park.	The Globe Theatre.
Royal Holloway College.	The chapel at Royal Holloway.
Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water.	The Great Hall at the Sanatorium.
Southwark Cathedral.	The herb garret and old operating theatre.
The metropolis.
The Royal Courts Of Justice.	Middle Temple Hall.
The Guildhall Library.	Lambeth Palace.
The Maughan Library.	Durbar Court at the Foreign Office.
The Foreign Office.	Highgate Cemetery gates.
Highgate Cemetery.	Highgate School.
Gaumont State cinema, Kilburn.	Battersea Power Station.
Immensity.	A glorious ruin.
Old Dulwich College.	Dulwich College.
Dulwich College.	Mausoleum at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

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