Millennium bridge - River Thames in London - St Paul's Cathedral - Lundúnarferð - London
River Thames - The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in London, linking Bankside with the City of London. It is located between Southwark Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge. It is owned and maintained by Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. Construction began in 1998 and it initially opened in June 2000. Londoners nicknamed the bridge the Wobbly Bridge after pedestrians felt unexpected swaying motion. The bridge was closed later on opening day and, after two days of limited access, it was closed for almost two years while modifications were made to eliminate the motion. It reopened in 2002. The southern end of the bridge is near the Globe theatre, the Bankside Gallery, and Tate Modern, the north end next to the City of London School below St Paul's Cathedral. The bridge alignment is such that a clear view of St Paul's south façade is presented from across the river, framed by the bridge supports. See more:
The Hungerford Bridge crosses the River Thames in London, and lies between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. It is a steel truss railway bridge – sometimes known as the Charing Cross Bridge – flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation piers, and which are named the Golden Jubilee Bridges. See more:
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn. While it is best known for flowing through London, the river also flows alongside other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The river gives its name to three informal areas: the Thames Valley, a region of England around the river between Oxford and west London; the Thames Gateway; and the greatly overlapping Thames Estuary around the tidal Thames to the east of London and including the waterway itself. See more:
The Thames Path is a wonderful 184 mile walking path that runs from the source of the Thames at Thames Head in Gloucestershire following the iconic river through beautiful countryside and historic towns and villages to the city of London. Several sections of the path are also open to cyclists making for an attractive, safe and easy ride - See more:
Wind In The Willows At The River And Rowing Museum Based On E.H.Shephard’s Work
The Wind In The Willows,
Or the Wind In The Willows Gallery,
At The River And Rowing Museum at Henly On Thamas,
By The Same People who Made the Beatrix Potter Attraction,
But Only smaller,
based on The Lovey artwork of E.H.Shepard.
Britain In Bloom Judges Given Tour of Green Park
Judges from Britain in Bloom took a tour around Reading, to rate, the towns floral offerings. From Caversham Court to Henley Road Cemetery, from The Oracle to the Forbury, from the Ridgeline Trust to the Lavender Place Community garden, the judges were given a blooming good tour of the town! We caught up with them in Green Park, and hopped aboard a golf buggy which wound its way through the parks greenery, flowers and learnt more about their eco-friendly initiatives.
Our reporter Tom St John certainly had fun, but what did the judges make of the park?
Making of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy 1981 TV Show
Snoopet 227 - Putney Village
We had planned on going to Wimbledon Common, but this little spot looked too interesting on Google Maps to pass up. I expected a little high street or something, but Putney Village is basically a few houses inside a massive park. Very jealous of the people that live here. It's a green as can be, and just a few minutes south of the Thames. Snoop was into it.
So I'm learning as I go here. We went here looking for the Kate Middleton Pegasus and a giant amazing dog by Bambi. Just like Turnpike Lane, I was again stunned at the amount of amazing street art on Caledonian Road.
After cutting through Thornhill Square so Snoop could get some green time, we headed over to Tilloch Street to check out some giant parrots by Louis Masai. I've just learned of this artist and am looking forward to learing more. The birds are brilliant and worth the trip on their own, but that's not all that's there. An amazing surprise below the parrots was basically two Pegasus pieces in one. A gorgeous Rita Hayworth being ogled by a love struck character that I'm 60% sure is Goofy. Starting to realise Pegasus is more prolific that I realised.
So on from there to Freeling Street to check out the dog with headphones also by Louis Masai. Wow. Obviously dog related works are going to get my attention, but this one is just so massive and so brilliant. It is a tribute piece to his dog Lola. What a cutey. This one has just jumped ahead of Banksy's Keith Haring Dog as my favourite canine graff. Also would have been worth the trip just to see this one.
Next we crossed over Caledonian Road to check out the Game of Thrones Kate Middleton piece. I just found out literally while I was writing this that this is on the wall of Pegasus' gallery, Faith Inc! Not sure how I missed that because his 99 Problems is in the front window. Perfect excuse to go back during business hours.
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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy (also known as Exeter or PEA) is an American private college preparatory school for boarding and day students between the 9th and 12th grade. It is a large co-educational school, with over 1,000 students. It was founded in 1781 by John Phillips, a wealthy American merchant and early patron of schools.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a prominent member of the Liberal Party.
Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to an aristocratic family. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected an MP in 1900, initially as a Conservative, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers' social security. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign; after it proved a disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front. In 1917 he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
Out of office during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for British rearmament to counter the growing threat from Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's resignation in 1940, Churchill replaced him. Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort, resulting in victory in 1945. His wartime leadership has been widely praised; however, several of his decisions have proved controversial. After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an iron curtain of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. He was elected prime minister in the 1951 election. His second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War and a UK-backed Iranian coup. Domestically his government emphasised house-building and developed an atomic bomb. In declining health, Churchill resigned as prime minister in 1955, although he remained an MP until 1964. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral.
Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. In more recent years however, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy.