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London 12 - Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery located at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection (i.e. those works owned by the Queen &quot;in trust for the nation&quot; rather than privately) on a rotating basis; about 450 works are on display at any one time. The gallery is located at the west front of the Palace, on the site of a chapel bombed during the Second World War. The gallery opened in 1962. In 2002 it was renovated by the architect John Simpson, who added the Doric entrance portico, and re-opened by the Queen. It is open to the public on a daily basis. The gallery was barely a year old when we visited it back in 2003
London 11 - Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality, and a major tourist attraction. It has been a rallying point for the British people at times of national rejoicing and crisis. Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and acquired by George III in 1761[2] as a private residence, known as &quot;The Queen's House&quot;. It was enlarged over the next 100 years, principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, forming three wings around a central courtyard. Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. The last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the present-day public face of Buckingham Palace. However, the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection. This was taken through the front fence.
London 10 - Buckingham Palace The Palace was usually closed to the public. However, due to the big fire in Windsor Castle, the Queen's other residence, the Royal Family decided to have it open for a limited time during the summer to generate income.
London 6 - Street Performer at Covent Garden Covent Garden (pronounced /ˈkɒvənt/) is a district in London, England, located in the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwestern corner of the London Borough of Camden. The area is dominated by shopping, street performers, and entertainment facilities, and it contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House, which is also widely-known simply as &quot;Covent Garden&quot;, and the bustling Seven Dials area. The area is bounded by High Holborn to the north, Kingsway to the east, the Strand to the south and Charing Cross Road to the west. Covent Garden Piazza is located in the geographical centre of the area and was the site of a flower, fruit and vegetable market from the 1500s until 1974, when the wholesale market relocated to New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms. Nearby areas include Soho, St James's, Bloomsbury, and Holborn.
London 8 - Tower Bridge Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London. The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the land-ward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Its present colour dates from 1977 when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Originally it was painted a chocolate brown colour. Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream. A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old London Bridge that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed that he was in fact buying Tower Bridge. This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the seller of the bridge.
London 9 - Tower Bridge On the rare occasion, the bridge does lift up to allow ships on the Thames pass through. I was lucky that this happen while I was there to snap this picture up.
London 7 - The Guards I can't remember exactly where this was but it was around Buckingham Palace somewhere. The guards do move from time to time and when you indicate to them that you are taking pictures they will politely nod.
London 1 - The London Eye The London Eye (also known as the Millennium Wheel), at a height of 135 metres (443 ft), is the biggest Ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over three million people in one year. At the time it was erected it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, until it was surpassed by the Star of Nanchang (160 m) in May 2006, and then the Singapore Flyer (165 m) on 11 February 2008. However, it is still described by its operators as &quot;the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel&quot; (because the entire structure is supported by an A-frame on one side only).
London 3 - St James's Park Anita, my parents and I. Check the spelling, as St James' Park is the home ground for a certain non-Premier League team in Newcastle. We walking around there to get to Buckingham Palace. St. James's Park is a 58 acre (23 hectare) park in Westminster, central London, the oldest of the Royal Parks of London. The park lies at the southernmost tip of the St. James's area, which was named after a leper hospital dedicated to St. James the Less. St. James's Park is bounded by Buckingham Palace to the west, The Mall and St. James's Palace to the North, Horse Guards to the east, and Birdcage Walk to the south. The park has a small lake, St. James's Park Lake, with two islands, Duck Island (named for the lake's collection of waterfowl), and West Island. A bridge across the lake affords a view of Buckingham Palace framed by trees and fountains, and a view of the main building of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, similarly framed, to the east. The park is the most easterly of a near-continuous chain of parks that also comprise (moving westward) Green Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. The closest London Underground stations are St. James's Park, Victoria, and Westminster.
London 10 - Buckingham Palace
The Palace was usually closed to the public. However, due to the big fire in Windsor Castle, the Queen's other residence, the Royal Family decided to have it open for a limited time during the summer to generate income.
London 10 - Buckingham Palace The Palace was usually closed to the public. However, due to the big fire in Windsor Castle, the Queen's other residence, the Royal Family decided to have it open for a limited time during the summer to generate income.
London 10 - Buckingham Palace
The Palace was usually closed to the public. However, due to the big fire in Windsor Castle, the Queen's other residence, the Royal Family decided to have it open for a limited time during the summer to generate income.
See photo in original gallery.
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