The 10 best hidden London attractions | Travel 1. The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art The stylish Estorick Collection is housed in a Grade II-listed Georgian building in Islington and filled with Italian art dating from 1890 to the 1950s. Its permanent exhibition has a focus on futurism, an Italian movement based on an admiration for modernity, speed and technology. Other highlights include a series of drawings by Modigliani and a handsome collection of sculptures. • 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, estorickcollection.com 2. This small green haven lies in an unlikely Hackney location, featuring natural woodland, a sensory herb garden and vegetable beds currently sprouting kale, winter lettuces and brussel sprouts. • 50 Pearson Street, London E2, stmaryssecretgarden.org.uk 3. If cinema trips have lost their edge and you're fed up of paying ungodly sums of money at your local multiplex, then sign up for the phenomenon that is Secret Cinema. • secretcinema.org 4. 5. 6. 7. • Old Hill, Chislehurst, BR7, chislehurstcaves.co.uk 8.
standard-tube-map.pdf I know this great little place... Earl's Court Village and Earl's Court Gardens area | Survey of London: volume 42 (pp. 215-224) In this chapter are brought together two adjacent areas between Redfield Lane and Barkston Gardens with separate developments but overlapping histories. The term ‘village’ as applied to the area east of Earl's Court Road opposite Earl's Court Station is sanctioned by its use to designate a Conservation Area in 1973, and perhaps also by its loose current Londoner's sense denoting a neighbourhood of small houses, with small shops, really or seemingly anterior in date to their surroundings. Otherwise it is something of a misnomer. There was no church or ancient nucleus here, although a malthouse or brewhouse belonging to a Matthew Child had stood somewhere near the present No. 185 Earl's Court Road in about 1683–1703. (ref. 1) Rocque's map of 1741–6 shows little building in the locality. Southward a short terrace of fair-sized houses was begun about 1757 by an active West End builder, the carpenter Roger Blagrave, on land where three older houses had stood and which he had bought in 1756.
The London Tourism Guide - a free tourist and visitor guidebook London is justifiably proud of its markets, most of which date back to mediaeval times. They tell the history of London: Borough Market, the oldest, has lost its mediaeval clamour but retains its Dickensian air - it's seen a revival as an organic produce market and film-lot. Some, like Camden and Portobello are thriving, Camden's turnover makes it Britain's 4th largest retailer. Others have not stood up to the 21st century as well: the same processes which worked on Les Halles in Paris have been at work here: disrepair and displacement, followed by commercial development. Covent Garden market moved out of its central location to the wastes of Vauxhall years ago, to be replaced by a tourist-orientated market; Billingsgate, the fish market famous for the bad language of its traders has moved to the Isle of Dogs, and the original waterside building been taken over by city businessmen. The shortlist: 1) Spitalfields / Columbia Road (SUNDAY ONLY) 2)Portobello 3) Camden 4) Covent Garden
The Cocktail Gardener TV Guide UK TV Listings - UK's No 1 TV Listing site for Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat & BT Vision London Off the Beaten Path - Unique Places in London - VirtualTo 4 more images Update April 2014: ticket prices revised, attractions updated, hotel information added, new photos If you’d like to visit a classical English country house while in London, Syon Park could be just what you’re looking for. It has something for all the family and is near enough to the capital to make a lovely day out, although if you take advantage of all it has to offer you will find yourself spending quite a lot of money. At its heart is Syon House, the ancestral London home of the Dukes of Northumberland, with a stunning interior designed by one of the most famous of British architects, Robert Adam. The redesign of the house under Adam took place in the mid 18th century and was accompanied by a redesign of the grounds as well, led by the famous landscape designer Capability Brown. These grounds are one of the things we most enjoy about Syon and make regular visits to see. But once you have exhausted the pleasures of house and gardens, there is still so much to do here.