LONDON TOURIST ATTRACTIONSSOME OF THE MAIN LONDON TOURIST ATTRACTIONS.Big BenThe first chimes of Big Ben to be heard eminating from the Clock Tower you see today, occured on 11 July 1859. It was not however, the first tower or bell to be situated within the grounds of The Palace of Westminster. Read More....
It is considered to be an iconic landmark of London, but it is more than just a landmark. It is a Church, built for the Glory of God, in which resides a Treasure Chest of a Nation's past. A past which unfolds to reveal more than a thousand years of history woven into its very fabric. Read More.... In it's long and unique history , it has been used first and foremost for it's primary purposes, Fortress, Royal Palace and Prison(mainly high profile prisoners, such as Royalty and Nobility, although it has housed common prisoners too). Read More.... However, it has a much longer history. Read this history through Medieval Times in London until the destruction of St Pauls in the huge conflagration which destroyed the City of London and came to be known as The Great Fire of London. Read More.... London's Sea Life Aquarium, is for the whole family. Situated in County Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames and right next door to the London Eye. Read More.... The Greenwich Royal Observatory, Greenwich England, is the home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World, which makes it the official starting point for each new day and year. The Observatory, with the Queens House Greenwich, are both incorporated within the National Maritime Museum to form one of the top Museums in London. It is also a World Heritage Site. Read More.... There were ninety seven parish churches within the ancient walls of the City of London before the Great Fire of 1666. Eighty seven of these, together with thirteen thousand two hundred houses, St. Paul's Cathedral and most of the City Authorities buildings were lost in the great firestorm which in four days consumed four fifths of the entire city. Fifty one were rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren and his two assistants, fellow scientist, the brilliant Robert Hooke, and Nicholas Hawkesmoor Read More.... St. Bartholomew the Great, which is located at West Smithfield, in the City of London, is one of the great London Churches. It is one of the lesser known London Tourist Attractions, but if your interests lie in how the ordinary people lived, worked, played and died throughout London's medieval history, then it should be right up there with the more illustrious London Tourist Attractions. Read More.... Camden Market is made up from a collection of adjoining street markets in Camden Town close to the Hampstead Road Lock (more commonly referred to as Camden Lock). They have combined to form the largest street market in the UK and with the ability to attract approximately 100,000 people every weekend, it has now become the fourth most popular visitor attraction in London. Read More.... The Charles Dickens Museum is located at No. 48 Doughty Street Holborn, situated within the London Borough of Camden. Comprising four floors of a typical Georgian terraced house, the museum boasts the world's most important collection of paintings, original furniture, rare editions, manuscripts and various other items which relate to the life, work and times of Charles Dickens. Read More.... Dennis Severs House, is a Georgian Terraced house at No. 18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields in the East End of London, England. It is not a museum. It wasn't intended to be one. It was intended to be a time capsule, where you can walk through the ten rooms of the house, each one of which is arranged as if they are still being used by their occupants who have just slipped out on some business errand or other. Each of the ten rooms in the house, was refurbished by Severs. Each one of them in a different style, taken from different periods of the years between 1725 to 1919 during which the fictitional Jervis family had supposedly occupied them. The story of the house unfolds as you walk through the rooms. It is as if a member of the fictitious Jervis family had just a moment before, left the room, leaving an unfinished meal there on the table.Read More.... The Cutty Sark Clipper Ship, the most famous of all the tea and wool clipper ships in history and considered by 19th century seamen and others that knew her, to have been the finest and fastest clipper ship to have ever come out of Britain, is now preserved in a purpose built dry-dock in Greenwich, south east London, England. It became a very popular tourist attraction in Greenwich, until the morning of the 21st May 2007 when the Cutty Sark Clipper Ship mysteriously caught fire and was very badly damaged. "Everyone was shocked and saddened as we watched those terrible images of fire on the news. People wondered then whether Cutty Sark could ever be brought back to its former glory." Who could disagree with those words, having watched the television coverage of the inferno and the black columns of smoke, which could be seen for miles around, rising from the smouldering wreckage.Read More.... RETURN FROM London Tourist Attractions TO A-LONDON TOURIST GUIDE HOME PAGE.
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