London flowers

Oh! the memories you've brought flooding back, Balcony! I used to take my daughters to the Museum of London and, recently, my eldest daughter took her children there to relive her memories. We also visited Postmans' Park; were frequent visitors to The Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral; and knew every duck, goose and pelican in St James's Park by name! ;o) London's a wonderful place if you don't have to commute to work there!!!!!! Done that too, but preserved my sanity seeking out pretty places during my lunch hour - especially around the Chancery Lane/Fleet Street area. Most people seem to walk around London looking around at eye-level, but there's a wealth of interest if you look up. I've seen some fantastic weather vanes - a dragon, a golden beaver, several galleons ..... I've always said you need several pairs of eyes to look at London properly - or several years with nothing else to do but stand and stare. :o) Glad you enjoyed your day there and hope your daughter-in-law has some lovely sights and memories to take back to Spain.

Thanks Balcony. I do hope you get to go inside the Museum of London next time - it's excellent. But there's so much to see in London, something always has to be left out!

Although I was born & brought up in London I moved with my family to Huntingdon in January 1966. I was only 15 at the time & didn't know much of London other than the place where I lived & went to school.

I think someone called Johnson once said you needed a lifetime to get to know London! He lived long ago but if he knew London today he would say you needed several lifetimes!

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865237

Lovely tour my aunties or if my mum was alive she would of answered straight away hence my nan owned businesses down there, and my mum loved London of all places she lived hope this is the ruin you were wanting lovely photos.

That was so lovely we was there in 1976-1979 That brought back a lot of memories thank you so much lovely photos.

Hi Balcony...
another good blog ... :o)

So glad you liked it, TT! :-))

Joanella I think we would ALL like a patio like that! LOL!

We didn't see any barristers while we were there, Nariz!

Your welcome was that the ruin named under photo you were looking for the name of .

Thanks so much 6d for that link! I didn't know how to go about finding what it is called. How did you find it?

I did another search with "ruins of St Alphages Church" & found this site with an interesting piece of history & a (slightly) better photo than mine! LOL! :-D

http://www.qype.co.uk/place/184432-St-Alphages-Church-Ruins--London/photos/339034

When will it be possible to upload a photo to Google & get it to find similar photos as it does now with words? I think they are working on it right now!

I see my 2 latest blogs bring back many memories for you, Nariz! Although I was born & brought up in London there is an awful lot of the city I have never visited before.

The London Wall Road photos were taken from a bus that was taking us to Tower Bridge. We got off at Liverpool Street & finished the journey by Tube as it was getting dark & my daughter-in-law had to see Tower Bridge & the Tower of London before we had to catch the train home again.

I see you have many memories of this area of London,too, Lujean!

Lol my brother asks the same question how do I find things he can't its what you type into the browser at one time you could type any thing in and it would come up but the goverment put a stop to it all, just like the people finder and 192 which you have to pay for now, they are not daft. I just typed in london wall road ruins and went down the list. From early May each site you go on they will have to ask your permission in order to leave a cookie on your pc, like most do to track where you go on which sites. I wipe mine each week or frequently to stop them from tracking me none of their business any way. I shall take a look at your link now glad you enjoyed your day with your daughter in law, yes I ve been to tower bride too when I was about 9 lol

When I was a kid my brothers & I with our dad would visit Tower Bridge & stand over the 2 inch gap were the two halves meet in the middle. If you fixed you eyes on the water flowing below you got a floating sensation - just remembering it brought it back!

When our son visited us some years ago I took him to see Tower Bridge & he was lucky enough to see the Bridge open! Not this time though & we saw it from across the water - not enough time to get closer!

I have FireFox set to delete all cookies when it closes. Anyway I run CCleaner every day before I shut down the computer for the night & you'd be surprised at the amount of "rubbish" we pick up in just a few hours of browsing!

How nice to have that experience with the water and bridge. It must a great sight to see the bridge open nice for your son to see. Yes it is suprising what you can pick up in just a few hours.

What amazes me in large cities like London is the amount of green space/gardens there are despite it being like a concrete jungle. It's so pleasant to go around a corner and be confronted with another stretch of beautiful flowers and plants etc.

You captured some lovely scenes there, Balcony...I liked the photo with the daffs and shaped box bushes...very effective.

Thank you for taking the time to share all these with us :)

Whistonlass: You are quite right about that- it is indeed surprising the amount of open/green spaces in our cities! I'd never heard of this little park before. It was thanks to our d-i-l that we even discovered it! She brought over a few photocopies of some of the pages in the book she was using for studying English & some of these places were in it!