After spending some time visiting family and friends we went up to London for 2 nights prior to commencing the first of 2 tours to Italy.
We went up to London in the middle of the May Bank Holiday weekend. We knew it was a holiday but we didnt realise there was a marathon race which shut down many streets in London and even cancelled the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace for 3 days.
While we were in London we did plenty of walking, sightseeing and visiting some of the pubs in the Pimlico area.
Buckingham Palace guard but no Changing of the Guard. Not even any Guards on horseback.
This is my favourite part of London. Not as many tourists as other places. It is the 7 Dials area and my favourite street is Neal's Yard.
It's just above Covent Garden which is much busier and more touristy.
Seven Dials was originally laid out by Thomas Neale, MP in the early 1690s, who cleverly laid out the area in a series of triangles to maximise the number of houses as rentals were charged per foot of frontage and not per square foot of interiors.
More recent milestones in Seven Dials' heritage include two blue plaques, which mark two great landmarks in Seven Dials' colourful history. Above 13 Monmouth Street, a blue plaque highlights the location where former Beatles manager Brian Epstein ran his successful management company, NEMS. The plaque was officially unveiled in September 2010 by Liverpool’s darling and entertainer, the late Cilla Black, who was also signed with Brian’s company back in the day and became his only female vocalist. In Neal's Yard, Seven Dials' other blue plaque identifies the location of the Animation, Editing and Recording Studios of Monty Python, which read as: "Monty Python, Filmmaker, lived here, 1976-1987”. However, despite some redevelopment in the 19th and 20th centuries, many of the original buildings still remain and retain original features.
We went up to London in the middle of the May Bank Holiday weekend. We knew it was a holiday but we didnt realise there was a marathon race which shut down many streets in London and even cancelled the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace for 3 days.
While we were in London we did plenty of walking, sightseeing and visiting some of the pubs in the Pimlico area.
This is my favourite part of London. Not as many tourists as other places. It is the 7 Dials area and my favourite street is Neal's Yard.
It's just above Covent Garden which is much busier and more touristy.
Seven Dials was originally laid out by Thomas Neale, MP in the early 1690s, who cleverly laid out the area in a series of triangles to maximise the number of houses as rentals were charged per foot of frontage and not per square foot of interiors.
More recent milestones in Seven Dials' heritage include two blue plaques, which mark two great landmarks in Seven Dials' colourful history. Above 13 Monmouth Street, a blue plaque highlights the location where former Beatles manager Brian Epstein ran his successful management company, NEMS. The plaque was officially unveiled in September 2010 by Liverpool’s darling and entertainer, the late Cilla Black, who was also signed with Brian’s company back in the day and became his only female vocalist. In Neal's Yard, Seven Dials' other blue plaque identifies the location of the Animation, Editing and Recording Studios of Monty Python, which read as: "Monty Python, Filmmaker, lived here, 1976-1987”. However, despite some redevelopment in the 19th and 20th centuries, many of the original buildings still remain and retain original features.
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