Great Britain - touching the legacy of the Great Empire. Part 3. London

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We begin our acquaintance with London from the skies. Under the wing of the plane is a huge city with intricate streets and the famous River Thames serpentine.

We land at London's largest airport, Heathrow. The guide leads us to the wagons, reminiscent of subway cars. Are we going to London right away? After a couple of minutes, the question disappears, this train runs only between the terminals, and a long queue awaits us at passport control. In the end, we passed all the controls, we left the airport building and boarded a sightseeing bus with Polish numbers and drivers, which will become our mobile home for a two-week trip to the British Isles.

To our chagrin, the long-awaited meeting with London is postponed: bypassing the capital, we are heading directly to the second London Gatwick Airport, located 46 km south of London, where we check into a local hotel.


Without wasting time, I go to inspect the surrounding area. Here is my first acquaintance with England and its inhabitants. A peaceful atmosphere reigns around, beyond the English courtyards along the highway leading to some kind of water station, fenced with barbed wire. People are not visible, but they run across the road to the hares. England met us with friendly sunny and warm weather.

Acquaintance with England - a larger historical and administrative part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with a population of 53 million people (83% of the total population of Great Britain) we start in the early morning, leaving after breakfast at the hotel in its capital. On the way, the guide begins to acquaint us with the main milestones in the history of the kingdom. The city was founded around the year 43 under the name Londinium by the Romans shortly after their invasion of Britain.

In the 1st-3rd centuries it was the capital of Roman Britain, from the 11th-12th centuries - England, from 1707 - Great Britain, from the 16th to the 20th centuries - the British Empire. From 1825 to 1925 it was the largest vegetable garden in the world. Today, with a population of 8.3 million, London is the largest city in the UK and the European Union.

We drive into the suburbs of London, where we are greeted by one- and two-story long dark red houses with a ribbon building.

Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

In the morning we have free time, everyone rushed to those places that they dreamed of meeting the most. Difficult choice: after all, the capital of England is a storehouse of historical and cultural attractions. There is something to see in London - there are about 300 museums and galleries here alone. Therefore, we land in South Kensington, where three very interesting museums are located, besides, admission to them is free.


But it is still very early and the museums are closed and we are heading to the nearby Hyde Park - one of several royal parks in London, which are interconnected and form one vast green area in the very center of the city. In 1536, Henry VIII took the ancient Hyde property from Westminster Abbey and set up hunting grounds here. In 1635 the park was opened to the public and became a favorite haunt of gay Londoners. Soon laid out in the park, Rotten Row became London's main promenade for large figures strolling in carriages between St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace. In 1851, the World Exhibition was held here in the Crystal Palace. In the 20th century, Hyde Park became a traditional place where demonstrations, parades and concerts are regularly held, there is a "speaker's corner". The grassy lawns are walkable, while the elms, oaks and plane trees create shady alleys and cozy nooks.

We are met by running crowds of people (it seems that all of London goes out for a morning run) and young people playing sports with their mentors - fortunately there are many sports grounds in Hyde Park. In addition to jogging tracks, the park has a race track and a place for horseback riding. It makes a very pleasant impression and it's just great!

In 1730, at the request of Queen Caroline, an artificial reservoir for swimming and rowing was created, resembling the shape of a snake - Serpentine, on the banks of which a sculpture of the goddess Isis in the form of an ibis was remembered.

In 2004, a Memorial Fountain was erected by the reservoir in honor of Diana, Princess of Wales. The design of the monument reflects the life of the princess: water falls from the highest point in two streams, whirlpools and cascades crashing into the quiet expanse of the pool.

To the west, Hyde Park merges into Kensington Gardens, once the private park of Kensington Palace, where Princess Diana lived.

On the banks of the Serpentine - a monument to Peter Pan, erected in 1912 on the initiative and funds of J. M. Barry, author of the book "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906).

At the northwest end of Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine edge leads to a complex called the Italian Fountains. You can admire looking at classic jewelry, or you can tune in to a serious mood, seeing here a monument to Edward Anthony Jenner (1749-1843) - an English doctor who developed the world's first vaccine - against smallpox, instilling a cowpox virus that is harmless to humans.

There are many other monuments to prominent British people in the park.


This is the monument to William III at Kensington Palace, the Speke obelisk that discovered Lake Victoria, as well as the source of the White Nile, the monument to George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) - a popular English symbolist painter and sculptor of the Victorian era, as well as a monument to the Queen. a knight trampling down a defeated serpent, symbolizing the enemies of England in the wars of 1914-1919 and 1939-1945. But the most outstanding, without a doubt, is the monument to Prince Albert, which, after lengthy restoration work, was reopened in 1998. The prince is depicted sitting under a "Gothic" canopy.

In his hands he holds the catalog of the World Exhibition, in the organization of which he participated with great enthusiasm; on the sides of the monument, the images of famous figures of art and science are immortalized in marble, and on its corners there are allegorical groups depicting Agriculture, Trade, Craft and Engineering.

Opposite the monument is the Royal Albert Hall, built in 1867-1871 to perpetuate the memory of Prince Albert, the beloved and untimely deceased husband of Queen Victoria, with whom they had 9 children. The frieze under the cornice, made of Minton terracotta, depicts the triumph of arts and sciences. The hall can accommodate 8.000 spectators and is used for sporting events, banquets, balls and concerts.

Museums on Exhibition Road

We leave at Exhibition Road - the street of three magnificent museums, admiring the beautiful houses, and approach the Museum of Science, founded in 1856 in order to acquaint visitors with the history and practical application of scientific discoveries and inventions. Currently, the Museum of Science has more than 300 thousand exhibits, including the steam locomotives "Rocket" and "Puffing Billy", Charles Babbage's difference engine.

The museum consists of many galleries, some of which are permanent and some of which are temporary. Inside the museum there is a large central hall, up to the roof, which is made of glass. Being in the central hall, one can observe what is in the galleries, which are located around the central hall on five floors. Each hall is dedicated to one theme and presents it in a wide range of exhibits.


For example, in the clock room you can see the times of all times, from Egyptian and Roman to the most modern conceptual models. There are also halls dedicated to astronomical inventions, chemistry, printing presses, electricity, communications, photography, navigation, and physics. The topmost floor is completely devoted to various aircraft, near which there are telephones. If you pick up the handset of such a phone, it will report how and who created the model and where it was used.

This is one of the favorite museums among children and adults, as many of the exhibits can be touched, wheels spinned and buttons pressed. Many of the models in the museum are functional and created specifically for people to see how they work.

Leaving this museum, we head to the building of the Museum of Natural History.

The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in the Romanesque style, with terracotta panels outside and inside decorated with sculptures of plants and animals. The escalator takes us inside a giant globe, visually representing a volcanic eruption and even an earthquake. The museum contains more than 70 million life and earth science exhibits, which are divided into 5 main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The museum is a world-renowned research center specializing in taxonomy, identification and preservation.

Given the age of the institution, many of the collections are of great historical and scientific value, such as those collected by Darwin.

The museum is best known for its collection of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture – sometimes referred to as the “cathedral of nature” – as exemplified by the huge diplodocus skeleton that dominates the central hall.

On the other side of Exhibition Road there is another wonderful museum - the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 145 rooms of which one of the world's largest collections of decorative arts is located, which presents the artistic work of different peoples (more than 4 million exhibits). The museum was founded in 1852, influenced by the success of the 1851 World's Fair. funding for its creation was carried out at the expense of part of the proceeds from the exhibition.

The original name of the museum was the Museum of Products, in 1853 the museum was renamed the Museum of Decorative Arts, in 1857 the museum settled in South Kensington and became known as the South Kensington Museum.


The City of London is also known as the "Square Mile" due to the fact that it occupies approximately this area. From an architectural point of view, the City can be called unique, as it combines ancient monuments and the most modern buildings. Almost next door are the Tower, St. Paul's Cathedral and the famous "Cucumber" - a huge skyscraper Mary Ax. The area is called the "financial heart of the country" (and sometimes the "financial heart of Europe"), since it is home to a huge number of banks, insurance companies and financial corporations, as well as the London Stock Exchange. They do not live here, but only work - there are almost no residential buildings, the population is only a little more than 7 thousand people.

In the City, "special rights" are still a separate ceremonial county with its own laws.

Even a monarch can enter the territory of the City only with the permission of the Lord Mayor, because the city freedoms given to the City by royal decrees 6-8 centuries ago still operate within the former city walls, that is, they do not apply to all of present-day London, but only to the old one, to the City. If you go out to the business street Strand, you can see the amusing turrets of a medieval castle. But this is not a fairy-tale castle, this is the Royal Palace of Justice, and the entire block behind it is given over to judicial officials.

The City operates its own City of London Police, separate from the Metropolitan Police Service protecting the rest of London. The City Police operates 3 police stations and employs 813 police officers, 85 special constables and 48 support officers. Police officers wear dark blue uniforms both while on duty and at home.

To distinguish officers on duty, they are required to wear armbands with white and red stripes. The personal number of the City policemen is not white, like that of the capital's policemen, but yellow - three-digit for constables and two-digit for sergeants. Also, during the patrol, the policemen wear Prussian-style helmets. The borders of the City are marked by dark columns with its emblem, and at the entrance from Temple Bar - Dragon City, standing in front of the Royal Palace of Justice.

We approach the Guildhall (town hall) - the official residence of the government of the City of London, built between 1411 and 1440. She became a symbol of the power of the commercial and financial capital of the City of London. It housed the city government of London, the court of the municipal council, the residence of the Lord Mayor and the Sheriff of the City of London.

St. Paul's Cathedral is a cathedral in London, the seat of the Bishop of London, located on top of Ludgate Hill.


There were five cathedrals at this place at different times. The first temple, built of wood in 604, burned down in 675. The second cathedral, made of stone, built in 685, was destroyed by the Vikings in 961. The third, again stone, erected in 962, burned down in a great fire in 1087. The fourth, also made of stone, one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, known as Old Saint Paul, was consecrated in 1240. It burned down in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The authorities of London decided not to restore the damaged temple, but to build a new one in its place. This is how the fifth St. Paul's Cathedral appeared, which has survived to this day. It was built according to the design of the architect Christopher Wren in 1675-1708, according to which the cathedral was supposed to be a large temple with two bell towers. The cathedral has 17 bells, and under its dome there are 3 famous galleries: whispering, stone and gold.

The Whispering Gallery got its name due to the peculiarity of its acoustics, which was not foreseen by the architects: a whisper at one end of the room is clearly audible at its other end. While in this gallery, you can admire the frescoes by James Thornhill, made on the inside of the dome and depicting scenes from the life of St. Paul.

In front of the cathedral is a monument to Queen Anne, who ruled during the construction of the cathedral.

In addition to St. Paul's Cathedral, there are other churches in the City: St. Stephen (1439), St. Lawrence, St. Margaret (founded in the 12th century), St. Mary-le-Bow. Their stories are similar: burned in a fire in 1666, then restored by Christopher Wren in 1672-1687, in 1940-1942 the first two were badly damaged by bombing, in 1954-1957 they were again restored. The Church of St. Lawrence was located near the medieval Jewish ghetto, and is also known for the fact that Thomas More preached at this place.

Now it is the official main temple of the City of London.

Not only are there old churches in this area, but there are also very old pubs - historic English alehouses. The popularity of pubs in the evening is visible to the naked eye - during the queue for a magical drink, they even line up on the street. We go into one of the oldest pubs, which at one time was visited by all English monarchs from Charles II in 1667 to the now living Elizabeth II, as evidenced by a memorial plaque at the entrance.

We approach the square in front of the Royal Exchange in the classical style. Next to the stock exchange there are a number of monuments, including another equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington (1844), as well as a monument to James Henry Greathead, an engineer, one of the first builders of the London Underground.

Close to the Stock Exchange is the Bank of England, popularly known as "The Old Woman from the Street of Thread and Needle".


As everyone knows, good old England is famous for its ghosts. The bank also has its own ghost - this is the "Black Nun". In 1811, one of the bank employees, Peter Whitehead, became interested in a card game, lost and made two false checks to cover the debt. Friends betrayed him, after which he was arrested, tried and executed. However, his sister was not told for a long time what was wrong with him and why he did not return home from work. When she found out the truth, she became a little crazy in her mind and began to wander near the bank. Bank employees procured a tiny pension for her. For forty years, this woman, dressed in black (hence the "nun"), visited the vicinity of the bank, gradually turning into an old woman. In front of the Bank building there is a beautiful monument in honor of the soldiers, officers and ordinary citizens who defended the King and Queen during the World Wars.

We examine another classic building - Mansion House, located on the south side of the Bank.

This Renaissance building, built between 1739-1753, was the official residence of the Lord Mayor of the City during his reign. Here we end our walk through the evening City.

Tower and Tower Bridge

At the eastern borders of the City, the gloomy towers of the Tower rise - fortresses - one of the main symbols of Great Britain, which occupies a special place in the history of the English nation. This mighty fortress has been standing here for almost nine centuries. Historically, the Tower does not belong to the City. When the Normans invaded the British Isles in the 11th century, William the Conqueror began to build defensive castles. One of the largest in 1078 was the Tower. This fortress near the walls of London was built not only to control the mouth of the Thames, but also to intimidate the recalcitrant citizens, whose independence has long been feared by the rulers of England.

The wooden fort was replaced by a huge stone building - the Great Tower, which is a quadrangular structure, 32x36 meters in size, about 30 meters high. When later the new king of England ordered the building to be whitewashed, it was called the White Tower or the White Tower. When we visited the Tower, a theatrical performance took place near it.

Under King Richard the Lionheart, several more towers of different heights and two rows of powerful fortress walls were erected. A deep moat was dug around the fortress, making it one of the most impregnable fortresses in Europe. As the Duke of Edinburgh wrote in his book on the 900th anniversary of the Tower: “In its history, the Tower of London was a fortress, a palace, a repository of royal jewels, an arsenal, a mint, a prison, an observatory, a zoo, a place.

We go to the territory of Westminster Abbey, where we had a fascinating tour.


It is a traditional coronation and burial place for British monarchs: almost all English kings and queens since the reign of William I have been crowned here. It houses the wooden coronation throne, made for Edward I in 1300, and containing the legendary Skoon Stone, called the Stone of Destiny. The interior of the temple is determined by the tombs of kings, writers, military leaders and other famous people, the total number of tombstones in the abbey is more than three thousand. 18 kings are buried here, as well as prominent people of Britain: Newton, Livingston, Darwin. In the southern part of Westminster Abbey there is a "Poets' Corner", where poets, playwrights and writers are traditionally buried and immortalized, the ashes of Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens and many others are buried.

In addition, there are many monuments in Poets' Corner: Milton, Keats, Shelley, Henry James, T. S. Eliot, William Blake and the second. Yes, and weddings of the royal abbeys saw a lot, as was the case with Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

It is strictly forbidden to take pictures inside the abbey, so I show the abbey from the outside. From the courtyard of the abbey, the flag on the Houses of Parliament is perfectly visible.

Near the Parliament building there is a monument to one of the most legendary kings - Richard I - Richard the Lionheart. He was king of England from 1189 to 1199, but lived in it for only half a year. The rest of the time this tall blue-eyed handsome man spent in battles and crusades. His exploits are reflected in many myths, legends, books, films.

Westminster Abbey today is both a pantheon of glory, and a tomb, and a monument, and a symbol of greatness. A place you can't miss!

On the territory of the former monastery there is a college - the most prestigious and oldest school in England (Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster), which has been operating since 1179. In front of the college building there is a granite column of 1861 - a monument to college graduates who died during the Crimean War of 1854-1856 and during the uprising of the sepoys in 1857-1859. in India (then a colony of England). At the top of the column is Saint George slaying the dragon, at the base of the column are lions with their tongues hanging out. Behind the column is a cafe where you can eat.

There are many other interesting monuments near Westminster Abbey and Parliament, including those of Winston Churchill and Oliver Cromwell.

"London Eye"

We are heading across the Thames to the London Eye, as Europe's largest Ferris wheel is called. On the way we pass Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury since 1207.


The majestic red tarp portal is called "Morton's Tower" because it was built in 1495 by order of Cardinal Morton. The large hall contains an expensive library with miniature manuscripts and old printed books. The guard room houses an exquisite collection of portraits of archbishops by such remarkable artists as Holbein, Van Dyck, Hogarth and Reynolds.

We are approaching the London Eye, which was officially opened by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair on January 31.1999, but due to technical problems that arose, the attraction became available to tourists only on May 9.2000. For passengers, the wheel has 32 completely enclosed egg-shaped capsule cabins, symbolizing the 32 suburbs of London. Each cabin holds 25 people and costs £.18.

However, unpleasant news soon came to light - the bridge swayed very strongly from side to side due to peculiar resonant phenomena, so on June 12.2000 the bridge was closed for its reconstruction, and on February 22.2002 it was reopened.

From above, the south bank of the Thames and its sights are clearly visible.

Having descended from the Ferris wheel, we went to the nearby Royal Festival Hall, where we watched interesting short films in London in 3D.

Walking tour of London

We cross the Thames across the Millennium Bridge and head to our hotel, located next to the British Museum. We approach one of the most popular and interesting pubs in the city center - the Sherlock Holmes restaurant, which is located next to Trafalgar Square. The restaurant, steeped in history, was built as an exhibit of Sherlock Holmes' house for the British Festival in 1957.

Here you can enjoy an enchanting environment created thanks to the enthusiasm and help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his family, who presented the pub with various artifacts reminiscent of the adventures of the famous detective.


Our next stop is Trafalgar Square. At the beginning of its existence, the square was named after King William IV, and in 1830 it was renamed in honor of the victory of England in the Battle of Cape Trafalgar, which took place in 1805. The National Gallery, founded by King George IV, keeps a rich collection of Western European paintings of the 13th - early 20th centuries. On the square is the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, where people of different faiths can pray. The temple is named after a soldier of the Roman Empire, who rose to the rank of bishop and was distinguished by his generosity to ordinary people.

The center of Trafalgar Square is the monument to Lord Nelson, made of dark gray granite by sculptor B

. Railton. The Nelson statue itself is 5.5 meters high. The top of the column is decorated with an ornament of leaves, and is made of bronze from English cannons. On the pedestal of the column there are 4 bronze panels cast from captured French cannons, and the famous battles of Nelson are depicted on the panels: at St. Vincent (1797), at Aboukir (1798), at Copenhagen (1801). Trafalgar (1805). Around the statue are four lion sculptures made of granite. The height of each statue is over 6 meters.

Trafalgar Square is located in the center of London at the intersection of the famous streets of Westminster - Strand, Whitehall and Mall. At the beginning of The Mall, leading to Buckingham Palace, is the Admiralty Arch, built in 1910.

If the historical center of the English capital is located in the City, including the Tower Castle, then Trafalgar Square is the geographical center of London.

Londoners call this place "The Heart of England". It pulsates with a difficult English history with cruel events and magnificent military victories, peaks of human love and betrayal. On the south side of the square is a bronze monument dedicated to Charles I, sitting on a horse. This monument is the first equestrian monument in England, it was created in 1630 by the French sculptor Lesueur. The site of the monument is considered the central point of the city, since all distances in London are measured from it.

Meanwhile, we are approaching Buckingham Palace - the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II. The palace, built in 1702-1705 for the Duke of Buckingham, was sold to George III in 1761, and George IV ordered the architect George Nash to rebuild it. After the ascension to the throne of Queen Victoria, the palace became the permanent London residence of the kings.


You can get to the British Museum almost any day and for free, especially since our Royal Hotel National is located nearby. In the morning we head to one of the largest museums in the world, the second most visited after the Louvre. We cross Russell Square - a square square with a square in the London district of Bloomsbury, which arose at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries at the initiative of Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, whose monument is erected in the square.

The British Museum was founded in 1753 with the permission of the British Parliament. Its exposition occupies 94 galleries, the total length of which is 4 km. The basis includes collections of three famous people: Count Robert Harley, doctor Hans Sloan and antiquary Robert Cotton. Here is the last museum received a huge collection of books, which laid the foundation for the creation of the British Library. The museum was originally conceived as a collection of antiquities of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

The museum deserves a separate chapter, but here I will limit myself to the above.

regent's park

Today is the last day of your stay in London, tomorrow morning we will take off from Heathrow Airport and goodbye London, goodbye Britain!

Time is short, and London is one of the most impressive cities in the world, characterized by the great manners of its inhabitants and an incredible number of attractions. After reflection, I decided after visiting the British Museum to go on foot to the Marylbone area, where Regent's Park is located, as well as Madame Tussauds and Sherlock Holmes museums. There are a lot of Arabs and especially Indians on the streets, fast foods with Indian food come across. This is what modern London looks like in the Marylbone area.

On nearby Howland Street is the London BT Tower (620 feet high), which was opened in 1964. At the top is a restaurant that rotates in 22 minutes.

In 1971, a bomb exploded in the men's room of this restaurant. In 1980, the restaurant was closed for security reasons, and in 1981, public access to the tower was closed and only occasionally held events.

The capital impresses with an abundance of parks, the most famous of which are St. James - the oldest park in the capital, Hyde Park with "speakers' corner", Kew Hydens with an aquarium and "Butterfly House".


In the center of London, among the bustle of the city and various noises, there is the most peaceful place, a picturesque creation of man - Regent's Park (Regent's Park), originally called Marylebone Park. Regent's Park received in honor of the Prince Regent of Wales (from 1811 to 1820 he ruled the country instead of George III, his mentally damaged father, and later took the throne under the name of George IV), by whose decree a plan was developed for arranging the entire park by architect John Nash. Landscape work was carried out from 1811 to 1820.

Initially, when it was allowed to allow visitors to the park, it was possible to visit it no more than twice a week.

Covering an area of ​ ​.197 hectares, planted with well-groomed trees and covered with soft lawn, the Royal Regent's Park has been open to visitors since 1838. In 1994, the park was completely restored and is now a delightful example of Victorian park art.

It has a delightful linden alley separating two parallel paths, pyramidal plants, stone bowls with plants, and numerous graceful fountains.

Walking in the park, you never get tired of admiring curly boxwood borders, accentuated by vertical spiral compositions or molded.

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