Monday, August 25, 2008

Old Palace Quarter

Today was a bank holiday in the UK, so did a walking tour about the Old Palace Quarter- the old palace being St. James. It was a lot of fun, I even saw a bunch of places, I had never seen before and I thought I had seen mos everything in the area.

The Clock Tower at St James- part of Henry VIII's original palace
A side view of Spencer House- ancestral town home of Princess Diana, usually seen from Green Park
A converted mews area- now part of a luxury hotel, expensive suites
Pickerings' Passage- said to be one of the few remaining Tudor passageways in the city
The 17th century courtyard at the other end of the passageway
Piccadilly Arcade-expensive shops