Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Old City

Over the Weekend, I did a tour of parts of the old parts of the City-I thought I had seen every bit in the City but I haven't obviously!

Saddlers' Hall-built in the 17th century. Originally the site belonged to Thomas Cromwell who had his London home here. Once he got beheaded, the Saddlers Livery Company got it.
The Dutch Reformed Church-the church is from the 1950s-the original was destroyed in the Blitz. The original church was from the reign of Edward VI

St Helen's Church-originally part of a convent in the 1300s whose Prioress was allegedly the inspiration for Chaucer's Prioress

The Church of St Ethelberga-it survived the Fire of London, the Blitz, only to be destroyed by an IRA bomb. It's only recently been restored as a peace centre.
A Moorish tent set up in the courtyard of the church
Originally a Victorian Turkish bath-now a bar

Statue outside Liverpool Street Station of the Children of the Kinderstransport who passed through the station.
Tower Bridge at night

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Tooting

Over the weekend, I took a tour of Tooting-a part of South London. And yes, it's pronounced the way it looks. It's supposedly named for the old Saxon word for Watch Tower.

The churchyard of St Nicholas's church
The graveyard-one of the few churches I've seen in London where they haven't dug the graves up-probably because it's not in Central London
The back of St Nicholas-built in the 1840s, though a church has been there since the 1600s
The Tooting Library
A row of Terraced houses-typical for South London
Statue of "Bertie" or Edward VII outside the Tooting Tube