Places in London worth a visit

[charliecharlie]

to balance out Quids's long standing 'Places in London not worth a vist' I thought I would add this thread...

my first offer is....

The Paramount - the bar restaurant at the top of the Centerpoint building which has, until recently, been a members only club...is now open to non members... the views are amazing (food OK but you are paying for the views)... I took the photos over a 2/3 hours slot ... weather was amazingly varied and the city looked spectacular

[SeanMacGabhann]

Long standing????

Good tip tho Charlie

[charliecharlie]

yup... long standing by today's standards... he's had 147 views and 33 posts...

and I have only had 2!

you can crash and burn or drift on by like tumble-weed in seconds on this forum, as you well know Mr MacGabhann!

glad you liked the tip though... now you do one

xxCC

[Mick Mac]

http://www.lordshiplane.co.uk/business/LLO001_EDTUpstairs.jpg

The local boozer? Always worth a trip CC.

[charliecharlie]

yup sort of a bit of a been there done that (still doing that feel) was looking for some fresh ideas Mick Mac!!!!

xxCC

good ol' EDT eh!

[Moos]

Waterloo Bridge. You can stand on it and look around and re-pledge your allegiance to London.

[Mick Mac]

Eh CC - don't knock it. You are speaking to a man who is off drink for November - has not had a single drop for 25 days and can now almost smell the alcohol from Lordship lane. Forgive my one track mind.

[KalamityKel]

Vauxhall bridge offers much more of that kind of thing but from a distance - I can't find the right words to expression such emotion! ;-)

oh and it's great on a windy day :)

[charliecharlie]

ahhh poor old you Mick Mac... (pours large glass of red wine) hold on in there...only 5 days to go

YES YES AND YES Moos... great any time of day, in any weather but best at night

http://www.jonathans.me.uk/pod/waterloo_bridge_night_m.jpg

[Moos]

Very true, Kel - so many of the bridges are amazing. Tower Bridge on a sunny day is fabulous to cross and just watch the towers floating over your head. Richmond Bridge is good for people-watching in summer, Putney decorated by a lovely church, Millenium Bridge beautiful in itself, Albert Bridge is so pretty, Hammersmith Bridge is just bananas...

For Westminster Bridge, I will of course defer to the poet.

Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty:

This City now doth, like a garment, wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,

Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie

Open unto the fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!

[Mick Mac]

The Monument. All 311 steps.

My daughter had learned about the Fire of London in school and guess what, I had to take them up to the top. Scary up there but great views.

Came down and my daughter asked me where Pudding Lane was - I was half way through explaining that it did not exist as it was burned down in the fire of london - when she looked past me and said - "No Daddy - there it is over there". Sure enough, big street sign "Pudding Lane". First time I have been caught out bluffing to my children. First of many I expect.

http://www.londonnet.co.uk/files/images/newsimages/monument_steps_london.jpg

Some american guys were standing at the bottom saying to the ticket collector - "Maaaan, I can't believe this place does NOT have an elevator......"

Then they refused to go in - how sad is that?

[Ted Max]

A trip to the temple.

http://www.grogo.co.uk/Urban/slides/Neasden%20Temple.jpg

http://www.wayfaring.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/neasden_20temple.jpg

With some retail therapy afterwards...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/221413225_5e15bbee6b.jpg

[kpc]

The view from Wolfe's statue in Greenwich Park (sorry no photo).

[Ted Max]

How's this?

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/36/27/1362787_f0a276f5.jpg

[charliecharlie]

oh yes the temple... sort of lost in the back of my mind... thanks for reminding me....

how about the Sir John Saone museum... pretty wierd and wonderful

http://www.creative-freelance.org.uk/images/soane_museum1.jpg

[kpc]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> How's this?

>

Why thank you - that'll do nicely.

[Mick Mac]

How about the oldest golf club in the world (arguably).

http://www.royalblackheath.com/files/rbgcmembers.co.uk/50/header_public.jpg

Blackheath mention that other items in their possession suggest a date of 1745 may have been the inauguration of a collection of players into a formalised Club, but they do not give details. The idea that the first golf club could be English, and not Scottish, is not as impossible as it sounds. In Edinburgh there were plenty of golfers and arrangements for a game would have been easy to make. Blackheath is several miles outside the City of London and to get there in Stuart times would have meant significant travel arrangements, such as being ferried by waterman to Greenwich. Thus the reduced number of golfers and the geography could easily have produced more organisation sooner, but no conclusive evidence is felt to exist at present.

[KalamityKel]

Erm... No

[Mick Mac]

Oh yeeesss.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:dj9T6l1BC0ty3M::img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00471/SNN1833B_471637a.jpg&h=94&w=67&usg=__NP50rzRU9J5IoEiD1whx9vCoepQ=

:))

[charliecharlie]

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07/22a_17_London_sky_500x265.jpg

and the view from Forest Hill is pretty amazing...

[Mick Mac]

Same view from Dulwich Golf Club......there's another one for KK's shortlist.

[KalamityKel]

Shame I'm not allowed to show the view from the roof at work (special security stuff and all that) that's quite lovely especially on a nice sunny morning

[Ted Max]

I think someone's been drawing on your photos, Charlie.

[KalamityKel]

Kel does NOT do golf :p

[LuLu Too]

Wow - that Shard has gone up quicker than I realised.

It's not clearly visible up on the heights of UDB.

*Edited because my grammar and syntax are all over the place this evening*