London Trip

 

Bekah's London Trip 2003

London  Nottingham  Bedford  Plymouth  Edinburgh  Stratford

London


Victoria Station.  We had just arrived

Waiting for a hotel room after an overnight flight

Our Hotel

Number 10 Downing Street


 

Prince Albert Memorial

Prince Albert Memorial Detail


 

Prince Albert Memorial Detail


 

Prince Albert Hall
Scene of the crime in Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

Mom & Dad at Big Ben

Big Ben at Noon
 

Bobbies near Portobello Road

Buckingham Palace Guards

Buckingham Palace

London Firemen
 

London Mounted Police
 

Palace Guardsman & Legionaire

Guards at the House of Parliament

Queen's Life Guard

Scottish Dragoon, I think

Scottish Policeman
 

Bunhill Fields
a.k.a. "The Dissenter's Graveyard"

Bunhill Fields, London

 

Bunhill Fields, London

 

Bunhill, a very old graveyard

Notable Tombs

Oliver Cromwell's Grave

Daniel Defoe's Grave

Isaac Watts' Grave

John Bunyan's Grave


 

John Owen's Grave

Susanna Wesley's Grave

William Blake's Grave

This memorial marks the place when the London Fire stopped

Changing of the Queen's Life Guard

A very lengthy changing of the guard



 

Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace



 

Here Comes the Life Guard...still trumpetting

Christopher Wren, architect of Big Ben and Parliament

Church Bombed in WWII

Elven Tree at Kensington Palace

English Homes near Kensington

Near Kensington & Hyde Park

Kensington Palace
 

Typical English Garden

View from Kensington

Harrod's At Night

John Wesley

John Wesley's Chapel

Wesley's Church - Main Auditorium

John Wesley's Grave

John Wesley's Grave

The London Arch
 

London at Night
 

London Street

London Street

London Street

Methodist Central Hall

Metropolitan Tabernacle

Mime at Portobello Road

Antique Shopping at Portobello Road

Portobello Road

 

Newgate & Old Bailey
 

Newgate Prison

The Old Bailey

The Old Bailey

Oliver Cromwell

Parliament Building

Parliament
Building

Protesters across from Parliament

Protesters up close
 

Queen Victoria Monument

The monument was very large

Smaller Queen Vic Memorial

Near Goerge Orwell's home

George Orwell's home

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

Poppies at Westminster Abbey

Each poppy planted represents a serviceman killed in action

More Poppies

 

Roman Ruins outside the Tower of London

Tower of London

 

Tower of London prisoners gate
 

Street Preacher

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square

"Churchill" in the radio room

The War Rooms Bunker

Cabinet meeting room in the Bunker

Meeting Room
 

The map room
 

Churchill's Quarters

War Room Kitchen - note the enamelware!

Churchill's private kitchen
 

Churchill's personal decorations

Churchill's decorations

Churchill's statue outside Parliament

Hyde Park in the Fall

London Bridge

 

Very Helpful since they drive on the left side!



 

i.e. "Watch Your Step"

On the Telley

Double Decker Tour Bus

British Restaurant Chain

The London Eye
 

The Tube
 

Tower Bridge in the back

St. Paul's Cathedral

Sarah's Tired of Walking!

Nottingham


On the Train

 

On the Train

 

This is how Sarah spent her time on the trains

An English Manor
 

An English Farm
 

Another English Farm

Friar Lane Chapel no longer exists

Friar Lane
 

Beautiful Rose!
 

City of Nottingham

Nottingham Lace Shop

Nottingham school boys

Nottingham Castle
 

A church turned bar

A lot of Robin Hood Tourism here.

The Sherwood Rangers & Robin Hoods

The Sherwood Foresters
 
 

Bedford


Pilgrim's Progress Free House

Church turned market

Pastor Emeritus at Bunyan's Church

Bunyan's Memorial
 

Bunyan's Memorial

Bunyan's Anvil

Bunyan's Cottage
 

Bedford City Gaol (jail)

Bedford County Gaol (jail)

Door of the County Gaol

John Bunyan's Pulpit

"Wicket Gate"

Waiting for the train back to London
   

Plymouth


Pilgrim's Point
 

Beginning of the Mayflower Compact

Pilgrim's Point
 

Antique Shopping in Plymouth

Elizabethan House
 

The best fish n' chips!

Edinburgh


on the train to Edinburgh

Golf Course on the northeastern shore

Hill near the Firth of Fourth

a nice English town

A lighthouse
 

The Scotish countryside

Looks like he belongs in Scotland!

An allyway, a.k.a. a "close"

Baily Fife's Close

Edinburgh
 

near the King's highway

Edinburgh memorial

Streets of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Castle
 

Mom & Dad & Edinburgh

Mowing the castle

Mowing the castle

View from Edinburgh Castle

Souvenir shopping in Edinburgh

John Knox House

"Lvfe God abvfe al, and yi nychtbovr as yi self"

John Knox House

Edinburgh Church
 

Old Saint Paul's in Edinburgh

William Wallace!
 

William Wallace with a light sabor

On our way back to the train station

Stratford Upon Avon


An Actual Supermarket!

Shakespeare's Birthplace

The Harvard House

The Nash House, related to Shakeskpeare

A square in Stratford
 

Shakespeare's Birthplace

Antique Shopping!

The Jester

The Bard Himself

Her Majesty's Theatre

"Silence That Dreadful Bell!"

The beautiful River Avon

A Shakespearean Swan

Waiting for the train back to London