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LONDON OLYMPICS
4,700 Athletes bid to get
their hands on gold, silver or
bronze
With the Olympics in full flow we’re going to see a lot of these this summer! Apparently
4,700 medals have been made for London 2012 and, interestingly, an
Olympic gold medal is made up of 92.5% silver,
1.34% gold and the remainder copper. To find out more and see the medals up close,
visit the Mine to Medals exhibition at the British
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August Carnival, cricket and concert crazy as London 2012 continues apace
Until 12th
London 2012 Olympic Games27th July - 12th August 2012 Various venues throughout London
see pages 95 & 110
3rd - 12th
The People’s Fringe3rd - 12th August 2012Netherhouse Farm, Waltham Abbey, London E4 7RJA nine day festival at the start of August celebrating sport, food and culture and offering enter-taining family activities for those who were unfortunate not to get their hands on any Olympic tick-ets. Half an hour outside of cen-tral London and far enough away from the busy Olympic Park, The People’s Fringe features multi-ple villages, stalls, chef demon-strations and gaming areas, with the overall theme being health, wellness and creativity. The VIP section is where you really get your money’s worth - enjoy touch screen gaming pads, hot tubs, splash pools, virtual reality gam-ing and even a helicopter ride over London.
3rd - 12th
Jamaica Village3rd - 12th August 2012Finsbury Park, London N4 1EEThe Jamaica Village will bring a slice of the Caribbean to Fins-bury Park this summer. In hon-our of the Jamaican athletes competing in the 2012 Olympics, get ready for ten days dedicated to celebrating the Jamaican lifestyle and its energy, cul-ture, food, art and music. With strong cultural influences, this vibrant Caribbean island has plenty to celebrate and London will be embracing it all, revel-ling in everything that the nation is famous for. There will be tra-ditional Jamaican dance, live performances, art and fashion and, of course, the famous jerk chicken.
7th - 11th
The Great British Beer Festival7th – 11th August 2012 Olympia Exhibition Centre, London W14 8UXOver 66,000 people flock to this massive celebration of our national drink, which features over 700 real ales, ciders, per-ries and beers from around the world. Although the Great Brit-ish Beer Festival is a fun event, don’t be surprised to see a lot of very serious faces and concen-tration; some real ale experts are genuinely obsessive - and for them this isn’t merely an occa-sion to get sozzled. Tutored tast-ings are on offer for anyone who wants to learn the subtleties of what makes a great beer. Besides the amber nectar, there’s a load of activities to keep you inter-ested, including traditional pub games, live music and, to soak it all up, some hearty traditional pub snacks.
12th
London 2012 Olympic Closing CeremonySunday 12th August 2012 London Olympic Stadium, Stratford, London E20 2STThe grand finale of the London 2012 Games takes place at the Olympic Stadium and includes a handover to the next host city, Rio. For the elaborate closing ceremony at Beijing 2008, media estimates put the global televi-sion audience at anything from one to four billion people - so it’s safe to say all eyes will be on London as the 30th Olympiad comes to an end. Leading cho-reographer and creative direc-tor Kim Gavin, the inspirational force behind many Take That shows and performances, has been appointed Artistic Director for the Closing Ceremony, which traditionally features a march of the athletes, the hoisting of the flags, speeches and the poignant extinguishing of the Olympic Flame - as well as one final
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From 1st
Tate Modern Oil Tanks 1st July – 1st November 2012 Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
A dramatic new development at the Tate Modern opens this summer as three 30x7 metre oil tanks dis-play art in live form. The giant underground chambers
have remained unused since the power station was decommis-sioned in 1981 and will now be incorporated into Tate’s new annexe, playing host to new audio and performance works, installations and film. Anonymous contributors have helped to raise 70% of the £215 million costs and the tanks will be open as part of the London 2012 Festival, the showpiece finale to the Cultural Olympiad.
Tate Modern’s new annexe is unveiled for the London 2012 Festival
LONDON EVENTS
WHAT’S ON WHERE IN AUGUST
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CAMDEN
Wembley
Harrow
Northolt
Ealing
Hounslow
Twickenham
Teddington
Kingston
Surbiton
Acton
Hampstead
St John’sWood
CamdenTown
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Manor Park
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East HamBarking
Ilford
Shoreditch
Hackney
Marylebone
Chelsea
FulhamBattersea
Clapham
Tooting
Wimbledon
Mitcham
Morden
Croydon
Beckenham
Bromley
Orpington
Catford
Richmond Dulwich
Lewisham Eltham
Greenwich
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CITY
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SOUTHWARK
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01 Adelphi Theatre Page 20
02 Almeida Theatre Page 114
03 Apollo Theatre Page 33
04 Barbican Centre Pages 56 & 112
05 Battersea Park Page 112
06 British Museum Pages 20, 55 & 79
07 Buckingham Palace Pages 54 & 82
08 Burgess Park Page 113
09 Camden People’s Theatre Page 100
10 Clapham Common Page 113
11 Design Museum Page 98
12 Dulwich Picture Gallery Page 79
13 Empire Leicester Square Page 113
14 Finsbury Park Page 109
15 Gunnersbury Park Page 113
16 Holland Park Theatre Page 76
17 Hyde Park Pages 100 & 112
18 Kensington Gardens Page 58
19 Kensington Palace Page 20
20 London Olympic Stadium Pages 54, 95, 109 & 114
21 Lord’s Cricket Ground Page 112
22 National Gallery Page 97
23 National Maritime Msm. Page 38
24 National Portrait Gallery Pages 79
25 National: Cottesloe Thtr. Page 100
26 Notting Hill Page 114
27 Olympia Page 109
28 Regent’s Park Pages 59, 97 & 112
29 Royal Academy of Arts Page 76
30 Royal Albert Hall Page 98
31 Royal Opera House Page 100
32 Sadler’s Wells Theatre Page 98
33 Serpentine Gallery Pages 74 & 79
34 Shakespeare’s Globe Page 33
35 Sir John Soane’s Museum Page 96
36 Southbank Centre Pages 58 & 74
37 Tate Britain Pages 80 & 100
38 Tate Modern Pages 33, 82, 99 & 109
39 Trafalgar Square Page 79
40 V&A Museum Pages 20 & 60
41 Wembley Stadium Page 113
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25th July until 12th AugustLondon 2012 Olympic Games25th July – 12th August 2012 Various venues throughout London and nationwide
From 29th AugustLondon 2012 Paralympic Games29th August – 9th September 2012 Various venues throughout London and nationwide
LONDON OLYMPICS
THE STATSThis summer’s
games in numbers
TOTAL COST£11.3 billion
OLYMPIC STADIUM COST
£537 million
AQUATICS CENTRE COST
£214 million
OLYMPIC ATHLETES10,500
OLYMPIC EVENTS302
OLYMPIC VENUES32
TOTAL CAPACITY700,000
PARALYMPIC ATHLETES
4,200
PARALYMPIC EVENTS
503
TOTAL TICKETS9.6 million
GLOBAL TV AUDIENCE
2 billion
COUNTRIESREPRESENTED
205
OLYMPIC SPORTS26
PARALYMPIC SPORTS
20
EVENTS AT OLYMPIC STADIUM
208
SIZE OF OLYMPIC PARK587 acres
LONDON FOR FREE
WHERE TO WATCH FOR FREEMissed out on tickets? You can still watch live events for free.
Some Olympic events pass through central London and its surroundings making for a great free day out for spectators. The mar-athons take in landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament; fans will be able to line the streets with the excep-tion of the ticketed finish area along The Mall. Other free athletics events on the streets of London are the 20km and 50km race walks.
The cycling time trial events take place at Hampton Court and Bushy Park in south-west London, and both road races begin and end at The Mall. While access to the finish line area will be ticketed, spectators will be allowed to watch everywhere else. Passing through Fulham and Putney, the route cuts through Richmond Park,
Twickenham and Bushy Park, and then heads down through Surrey before several circuits of a challenging loop around Box Hill. The route then takes the riders back to central London via Hampton Court, Kingston and Richmond Park.
Parts of the cycling section of the triathlon events will be accessible for free although the swimming in the Serpentine and running leg in Hyde Park are ticketed.
There are fewer Paralympic events free to the public, but spectators may acquire special day passes which enable them to see more than one sport in a day at the Olympic Park, ExCeL Centre and Royal Artillery Barracks. Each Lon-don 2012 ticket also includes free travel on public transport for the day of the event.
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Archery
Athletics
Athletics: Marathon
Athletics: Race Walk
Badminton
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Boxing
Canoe Slalom
Canoe Sprint
Cycling: BMX
Cycling: Mountain Bike
Cycling: Road
Cycling: Track
Diving
Equestrian: Dressage
Equestrian: Eventing
Equestrian: Jumping
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics: Artistic
Gymnastics: Rhythmic
Gymnastics: Trampoline
Handball
Hockey
Judo
Modern Pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Swimming: Marathon
Synchro Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water Polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling: Freestyle
Wrestling: Greco-Roman
Lord’s Cricket Ground
Olympic Stadium
The Mall
The Mall
Wembley Arena
Olympic Park & O2
Horse Guards Parade
ExCeL
Lee Valley White Water
Eton Dorney
Olympic Park - BMX Track
Hadleigh Farm
The Mall & Hampton Court
Velodrome
Aquatics Centre
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park
ExCeL
Various venues nationwide
North Greenwich Arena
Wembley Arena
North Greenwich Arena
Olympic Park
Riverbank arena
ExCeL
Various London venues
Eton Dorney
Weymouth and Portland
Royal Artillery Barracks
Aquatics Centre
Hyde Park
Aquatics Centre
ExCeL
ExCeL
Wimbledon
Hyde Park
Earls Court
Water Polo Arena
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Athletics: Marathon
Boccia
Cycling: Road
Cycling: Track
Equestrian
Football: 5-a-side
Football: 7-a-side
Goalball
Judo
Powerlifting
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Table Tennis
Volleyball (Sitting)
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Fencing
Wheelchair Rugby
Wheelchair Tennis
Royal Artillery Barracks
Olympic Stadium
The Mall
ExCeL
Brands Hatch
Velodrome
Greenwich Park
Riverbank arena
Riverbank arena
Olympic Park, Copper Box
ExCeL
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Eton Dorney
Weymouth and Portland
Royal Artillery Barracks
Aquatics Centre
ExCeL
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...cultural spectacle, plus a look ahead at the 2016 Games and the next host city in Brazil. If the handover at Beijing 2008 is any-thing to go by - it included a red London bus and an appearance by David Beckham - then the global audience will be treated with a mini Rio Carnival and a cameo by Pelé.
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BT London Live Closing Concert: Blur, The Specials, New OrderSunday 12th August 2012Hyde Park, London W2 2UHBlur will be headlining the BT London Live 2012 Olympics Clos-ing Ceremony Celebration Con-cert at Hyde Park on the same day as the official Closing Cer-emony on 12th August 2012. Returning to the scene of their 2009 Hyde Park performance, Blur’s Damon Albarn, Gra-ham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree will be joined by special guests including New Order’s Peter Hook, Ste-phen Morris, and Bernard Sum-ner who reunited in December last year, and Coventry band The Specials who reformed for a 30th anniversary tour in 2009. Concert goers can also watch the London 2012 Olympic Clos-ing Ceremony at the Olympic
Park in East London on giant screens in the park. This is a rare chance to see Blur live in concert - their only other sched-uled performance this year was at the Brit Awards. Throughout the Games, BT London Live is offering plenty of other opportu-nities for the public to catch Lon-don 2012 sporting action live on big screens and enjoy free enter-tainment with Hyde Park, Victo-ria Park and Trafalgar Square as hubs of activity.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel 15th August - 15th September 2012Barbican Theatre, London EC2Y 8DSBursting onto the Broadway stage back in 1945, Carousel is one of the great American musi-cals. Performance producers Opera North now breathe fresh life into the much loved Rodg-ers and Hammerstein original as it arrives at London’s Barbican in August. This carnival themed romance tells the ill-fated tale of bad boy Billy Bigelow and his sweetheart Julie Jordan. The show will run for five weeks with its brand new cast and live orchestra, giving a whole new generation of theatre-goers a chance to enjoy classic love
songs like, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ and ‘If I Loved You.’
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Investec 3rd Test: England v South Africa16th – 20th August 2012Lord’s Cricket Ground, Lon-don, NW8 8QNEngland take on South Africa in the final Test match of the Eng-lish summer as these two formi-dable sides square off to perhaps decide the series and the num-ber one ranking in Test match cricket. The final Test of the summer is always a show-piece occasion for the English game - over the past few years, the last game of the year has seen the Ashes regained (2009), a spot-fixing scandal with Pakistan that would engulf the sport (2010) and a comprehensive win over India that saw England crowned as the best team in the world (2011). The world’s best play-ers will be on show: Dale Steyn, James Anderson, AB de Villiers, Kevin Pietersen, Morne Morkel, Stuart Broad... Will the touring South Africans be able to burst the English bubble?
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Battersea Park Foodies Festival17th - 19th August 2012Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ
Meet Michelin starred chefs, see live demonstrations and sam-ple food from London’s top res-taurants at the Foodies Festival at Battersea Park. Cooking is made to look easy thanks to demos from top chefs – and if the mere thought of all that makes you hungry then you can head straight to the restaurant tents where you can sample signature dishes from well known restau-rants. Wash it all down with posh fizz from Veuve Clicquot and you can guarantee an atmosphere of bon viveur. It’s a winning combi-nation of sampling, slurping and learning – all in the open air. See also: Hampton Court Foodie Fes-tival .page 56..
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LolliBop17th - 19th August 2012Regent’s Park, London NW1 4NRA festival especially for the under-10s, LolliBop - “the big bash for little people” - returns to Regent’s Park this summer. You can expect live music on the bandstand and circus fun in the Big Top, as well as plenty of activities where parents and children can get involved with workshops on hula hooping, bodypopping and creating a car-nival costume. In fact, dress-ing up is positively encouraged - you’re advised to come in your best fancy dress. There’s some-thing for all the family including fairground rides for the kids and a dedicated baby change tent for parents. If that’s not enough you can always run away to the LolliBop circus and be enter-tained by the talented troupe of performers.A wonderful concept - and great to know London’s kids are not being forgotten.Three years after their legendary open-air comeback concert, Damon Albarn’s Blur return to Hyde Park
England’s Alastair Cook will hope to be in the runs at Lord’s
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London MelaSunday 19th August 2012 Gunnersbury Park, London W3 8LQThis wonderful celebration of Asian music and culture always draws a big crowd of over 50,000 visitors with its line-up of Brit-ish Asian music, Bollywood fig-ures and traditional and classical performances. One of the big-gest celebrations of Asian music and culture outside the Indian subcontinent, this year’s festi-val is still in the planning stages but previous years have seen nine different zones, all show-casing different types of music with urban, classical and exper-imental music, DJs, circus and comedy as well as dance, arts, a children’s play area and stalls selling food and handicrafts.
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Carnaval del PuebloSunday 19th August 2012 Burgess Park, Walworth, Lon-don SE5 0RJThis loud, colourful Carnaval del Pueblo is a chance for London’s Latin Americans to celebrate their roots in the capital – and a massive fiesta for all those who attend. In 2011 the festival had to be cancelled due to work on Bur-gess Park, so this long awaited event has the potential to be a
seriously rumbustious affair. Proceedings kick off at midday when a procession of brightly-coloured floats are paraded down the streets of Southwark, admired by over 100,000 peo-ple. The route winds its way to Elephant & Castle and then on to the park, where revellers can enjoy regionally-themed food, drink, live music and, of course, dance late into the night.
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Film4 FrightFest23rd - 27th August 2012Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, London WC2H 7NAThe Empire Cinema will once again host the Film4 FrightFest this August. The home of hor-ror, the festival has been run-ning since 2009 and has rapidly grown in popularity. With four days of screenings, audiences can expect to be scared witless with a devilishly delightful line-up of premieres, previews and special screenings of fantasy and horror films. FrightFest organ-iser Paul McEvoy chose the fol-lowing as his top picks from the 2011 festival: Kill List, Dedheads, The Theatre Bizarre and Inbred, as well as the annual interac-tive event, FrightFest Interna-tional Short Film Showcase/Andy Nyman’s Quiz from Hell. With previous years’ events wel-coming a number of esteemed
visitors, including Danny Boyle, 2012 is set to see even more cushion grabbing movies and an array of celebrity guests and talks.
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Carnegie Challenge Cup FinalSaturday 25th August 2012Wembley Stadium, London HA9 0WSThe Carnegie Challenge Cup Final returns to Wembley Sta-dium for one of the most eagerly anticipated dates in the rugby league calendar. Wigan War-riors saw off Leeds Rhinos in last year’s final, their first visit
to Wembley in 13 years. Their 28-18 victory brought them an 18th Challenge Cup crown, a record in rugby league. Though it gets less media coverage than rugby union (or cricket for that matter), rugby league is the second most popular team sport in Britain, and the only thing apart from football that fills big stadiums every week with noisy, passionate fans. In spite of the game’s roots in the North, the Carnegie Challenge Cup is now open to a few teams from France and Russia, and the Final, the showpiece of the domestic calendar, takes place in London.
South West Four: Clapham Common’s August bank holiday dance music festival is a huge favourite with London’s hardcore clubbers
The American musical Carousel has a five-week run at the Barbican
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South West Four Weekender25th – 26th August 2012 Clapham Common, London SW4 9DEChase and Status, Carl Cox and Erick Morillo all feature on the opening Saturday of this sum-mer’s South West Four Week-ender. Previous acts to perform at the open air inner city two-day festival of dance-music include Fatboy Slim and Dutch trance master Armin van Buuren, while last year’s line-up featured Underworld, Pendu-lum and Magnetic Man. Taking place on Saturday and Sunday (leaving you the bank holiday Monday to recover), “SW4” has proved a great success over its first eight years, filling Clapham Common with revellers united in the knowledge that they don’t have to slum it in a tent and that there’s no work the next day - so the party can go on and on. The music may finish at around 9pm both nights but there are after-parties for those keen on all-night revelry.
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Notting Hill Carnival26th – 27th August 2012 Notting Hill, London W11 3AGHeld since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival was originally a local affair for west London’s home-sick Caribbean community and
has evolved into Europe’s big-gest street party. With 2012 being the year to be in Lon-don there are rumours that this year’s show will be even more extravagant that usual. Car-nival sets London on fire in a blaze of Caribbean spirit as extravagantly costumed danc-ers, calypso and soca musicians, giant sound-systems and steel bands are joined by over a mil-lion revellers of all ages. Sunday is officially Children’s Day, but there are loads of kids on both days enjoying the bright colours of the floats and the dancers’ feathered costumes. Adults can shake their booties at doz-ens of stages: our favourites are Channel 1’s booming dub, and the jazz-reggae at Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues, but there are tunes for all tastes, from house to hip-hop. It’s a huge area, and can get very crowded, so be prepared for an exhausting day out, but for anyone who loves a party, Carnival remains the absolute highlight of the London summer.
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London 2012 Paralympic Opening CeremonyWednesday 29th August 2012 London 2012 Olympic Stadium, London E20 2STA month after the start of the London 2012 Olympics, the London 2012 Paralympics get
underway with the Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Sta-dium. Leading British creative talents Bradley Hemmings and Jenny Sealey MBE are the Artistic Directors of the Open-ing Ceremony, which will show-case some of the UK’s best creative performers as well as run through a raft of tradi-tions, such as the raising of the Paralympic and Host Nation’s flag, the Athletes’ Parade, the speeches, the arrival of the Paralympic Torch and the light-ing of the Paralympic Flame.
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London 2012 Paralympic Games 29th August – 9th September 2012London has a particularly strong connection with the Paralym-pics as the first Games dedicated entirely to disabled athletes were held in the city back in 1948, as a result of the large number of World War II veter-ans who were physically disabled but still eager and able to com-pete. Known as the Stoke Man-deville Games, the were carried out between clubs and hospi-tals and were the brainchild of Sir Ludwig Guttmen, a neurolo-gist who was working with war veterans and using sport as a part of their rehabilitation. Fifty four years later the Paralympics are an established and integral part of the Games, with their
own history of victories, losses and scandals. Held two weeks after the Olympic Games, the programme consists of twenty sporting disciplines .page 111 , ranging from wheelchair bas-ketball to athletics and sailing. The competitors are categorised under six different types of men-tal and physical disability, but the ultimate aim of the Paralym-pics is to celebrate the partici-pants’ athletic strengths and not their disabilities.
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King Lear31st August – 3rd November 2012Almeida Theatre, Islington, London N1 1TAMichael Attenborough, son of actor Richard, brings Shake-speare’s greatest tragedy to life at the Almeida Theatre, with award-winning actor Jona-than Pryce playing the title role in King Lear. Forming part of the World Shakespeare Festi-val .page 33 , the show runs for 14 performances at the end of the summer (there is a longer pro-duction run until November 3rd, available only for Almeida members) and is brought lov-ingly to the intimate stage at the Almeida. Pryce takes on the complex role of King Lear, as he asks each of his three daugh-ters to profess their love for him but is not satisfied by the honest answer of his youngest child and banishes her from his kingdom. Once he realises his mistake, it is too late and he descends into madness. Given Pryce’s pull and the reputation of the Almeida Theatre in Islington, King Lear will be one of the most heavily subscribed productions in the World Shakespeare Festival. Great Britain Paralympic sailing team at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Jonathan Pryce plays the lead in King Lear at the Almeida
NINE OF THE BEST
LONDON LIDOSOnly the truly fearless can brave the pools of steel that stay open year round, but there’s no better way to
spend a summer’s day in London than soaking up the sun at one of the city’s historic lidos.
01 Parliament Hill Lido HAMPSTEAD NW5� Following an extravagant revamp, this is one of London’s more spacious outdoor pools. Its stainless steel helps to retain the heat.
03 London Fields Lido LONDON FIELDS E8� If you want lido luxury, then this is your best bet. Olympic sized and with a heater to keep it temperate all year round.
02 Hampstead Heath Ponds HAMPSTEAD Once a reservoir, the ponds have been frequented by swimmers for centuries. With ponds for men and women as well as a mixed pond.
09 Brockwell Lido BROCKWELL PARK SE24 Nicknamed ‘Brixton Beach,’ the lido – built in 1937 – is an urban oasis adjacent to an extensive park with a very good cafe.
08 Ruislip Lido LONDON HA4 7TY Build sandcastles on the beach at Ruislip Lido where visitors can walk around the lake or take a trip on the narrow gauge railway.
06 Hampton Open Air Pool HAMPTON TW12� On the edge of Bushy Park, the heated waters at Hampton are inviting all year round. In July,
picnic concerts are staged by the pool.
04 Serpentine Lido HYDE PARK W2� Londoners have been swimming in the Serpentine for centuries. Opening its gates every summer, it hasn’t lost any of its natural charm.
07 Tooting Bec Lido LONDON SW16 90m long and London’s first purpose built lido, upgrades have kept the pool in great shape. In fact, it now features saunas and jacuzzis.
05 Hillingdon Outdoor UXBRIDGE UB8� Previously called ‘Uxbridge Lido’ the outdoor pool
has been restored to maintain the Grade II-listed features of the original 1935 pool.
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Earls Court WEST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE
Historic west London venue to host the
0lympic volleyball competitions
ExCeL Centre EAST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE Most used venue outside the Olympic Park with 143 sessions of 13 sports
Greenwich Park SOUTH EAST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE Our oldest Royal Park will be a perfect backdrop for the equestrian events
Horse Guards Parade CENTRAL LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE 5,000 tons of sand will be dumped at HGP for the beach volleyball events
Royal Artillery Barracks EAST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE Woolwich’s long military history remembered with shooting events
Wembley Stadium & Arena NORTH WEST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE The two venues at Wembley will form the main Olympic football hub and host badminton and rhythmic gymnastics
Wimbledon SOUTH WEST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE
Spiritual home of grass-court tennis will
be a worthy Olympic tennis venue
Hyde Park CENTRAL LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE Royal park and its boating lake to host triathlon and marathon swimming
Lord’s Cricket Ground NORTH LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE The spiritual home of cricket will stage the London 2012 archery competition
North Greenwich Arena - O2 EAST LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE Former Millennium Dome (O2) hosts gymnastics and basketball finals
The Mall CENTRAL LONDON OLYMPIC VENUE
The Queen can watch the cycling and
marathon from her Palace balcony
LONDON OLYMPICS
LONDON OLYMPIC VENUES‘LondonTown.com Olympic Town’ by Katherine Baxter and Steven Potter
London’s £11.2 billion, 2.5sq km, Olympic Park in Stratford will host most of the events for which 9.6 million tickets have been issued. Away from the Olympic Park, some of London’s most iconic landmarks will act as a fitting backdrop for many other Olym-pic and Paralympic events to be held between Central and River Zones in and around the city. For the full schedule: .page 110 .
London’s £11.2 billion Olympic Park 2�.5�SQ KM PARK, NORTH EAST LONDON Home to the 80,000 capacity Olympic Stadium, the 2,000 seater Aquatics Centre, 6,000 seat Velodrome, 6,000 seat BMX Track, 12,000 capacity Basketball Arena, 10,500 seat Eton Manor, 7,000 capacity Copper Box Handball Arena, 15,000 spectator Riverbank Hockey Arena, 5,000 seat Water Polo Arena and the UK’s largest artwork - the Arcelor Mittal Orbit.
Lee Valley White Water Centre NORTH EAST OF LONDON Brand-new state-of-the-art canoeing centre 30km north of the Olympic Park
Hampton Court Palace WEST OF LONDON Oldest surviving Tudor palace in England to host Olympic cycling time trials
