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Pembroke Lodge
Pembroke Lodge, the childhood home of Bertrand Russell, is now a cafe set in a beautiful 13-hectare garden and affording great views of the city from the back terrace.
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St Olaf House
St Olaf House, a diminutive office block fronting the Thames, was designed by HS Goodhart-Rendel in 1928 and is one of London’s finest art deco buildings.
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Saatchi Gallery
Funded by the eponymous Charles, patron of such Brit Artists as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, the gallery offers some 6500 sq metres of space for temporary exhibitions.
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Jewel Tower
Secular medieval buildings are scarce, although the ragstone Jewel Tower opposite the Houses of Parliament dates from 1365.
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Church of St Olave
The 15th-century Church of St Olave, northwest of Tower Hill, is one of the City’s few remaining Gothic parish churches.
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BT Tower
The 1964 BT Tower, formerly the Post Office Tower and designed by Eric Bedford, has been given Heritage-listed status.
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Euston Fire Station
The 1902 Euston Fire Station opposite St Pancras New Church is a wonderful example of Arts and Crafts architecture.
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St Ethelreda
The crypt at the largely restored church of St Ethelreda, north of Holborn Circus, dates from about 1250.
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Regent's Canal
To escape the crowded streets and enjoy a picturesque, waterside angle on North London, take to the canals that once played such a vital role in the transport of goods across the capital. The towpath of Regent's Canal also makes an excellent shortcut across North London, either on foot or by bike.
In full, the ribbon of water runs nine miles from Limehouse to Little Venice (where it meets the Grand Union Canal) but you can make do with walking from Little Venice to Camden in under an hour, passing Regent's Park and London Zoo, as well as beautiful villas designed by architect John Nash and redevelopments of old industrial buildings. Allow 15-20 minutes between Camden…
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Kentish Town City Farm
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Hackney City Farm
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Guildhall Library
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Great Synagogue
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Freightliners City Farm
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Former Commonwealth Institute
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Clockmakers’ Museum
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Blueprint Café
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Saatchi Gallery
Funded by the eponymous Charles, patron of such Brit Artists as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, the gallery offers some 6500 sq metres of space for temporary exhibitions.
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Fulham Palace
Summer home of the bishops of London from 704 to 1975, Fulham Palace is an appealing blend of architectural styles set in beautiful gardens and, until 1924, when filled with rubble, enclosed by the longest moat in England (a 70m section is currently being restored). The oldest surviving part of the palace is the little red-brick Tudor gateway, but the main building you see today is from the mid-17th century, remodelled in the 19th century.
The lovely courtyard draws watercolourists on sunny days and the lovely cafe (10am-4pm Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm Sat & Sun) in the drawing room at the rear, looking out onto the gorgeous lawn, is a superlative spot for some carrot cake and a…
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Wildlife Garden
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Whitechapel Road
The East End’s main thoroughfare, Whitechapel Rd hums with a cacophony of Asian, African and Middle Eastern languages, its busy shops and market stalls selling everything from Indian snacks to Nigerian fabrics and Turkish jewellery, as the East End’s multitudinous ethnic groupings rub up against each other more or less comfortably. It’s a chaotic and poor place, but it’s full of life. Within a few minutes’ walk of Whitechapel tube station you’ll find the large East London Mosque and, behind it, the Great Synagogue, built in 1899. Further down Fieldgate St, the enormous Tower House was once a hostel and then a dosshouse but is now a redeveloped apartment block.…
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Wapping
Once notorious for slave traders, drunk sailors and prostitutes, Wapping’s towering warehouses, built at the beginning of the 19th century, still give an atmospheric picture of the area’s previous existence. Although there’s nothing to actually mark it, down on the riverside below Wapping New Stairs (near the marine police station) was Execution Dock, where convicted pirates were hanged and their bodies chained to a post at low tide, to be left until three tides had washed over their heads. Among the more famous people who died this way was Captain William Kidd, hanged here in 1701, and whose grisly tale you can read about in the nearby Captain Kidd pub.
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Walkie Talkie
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Vauxhall City Farm
With more than 80 animals and riding opportunities.
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