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In and AroundLondon
A Little Travel Book
Lycée Victor Duruy
2nde 4
June 2018
TABLE OF CONTENT & SOURCES
Central LondonThe British Library & Saint Pancras Station, Emma Leroy & Aveen Othman
https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/285709-british-museum
https://www.bl.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library
http://www.aviewoncities.com/fr/londres/garedestpancras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station accessed May 26th, 2018
The London Eye, Valentine Mathieu & Daphné Pasteau
Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Nine Bourquin-Renoux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral#History accessed May 21th, 2018
The Tower of London, Anne Ferragu & Marie Meilhon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London https://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/london/attractions/tower-of-london/a/poi-sig/370403/358914
accessed May 23rd, 2018
Westminster Abbey, Louis-Joseph Bournazel, Ulysse Dardeau & Soufiane Jbilou www.westminster-abbey.org https://moovitapp.com accessed March 26th, 2018
Outskirts
Brick Lane, Eva Meuley & Cléo Richez https://www.google.fr/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=brick+lane&oe=UTF-
8&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBqNm217naAhVCIcAKHez1BP4Q_AUICigB
https://www.visitlondon.com/fr/que-faire-a-londres/endroit/279336-brick-lane-market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane accessed April 2018
Camden, Océane De Magalhaes & Anya Ouahioune
The Emirates Stadium, Guillaume Biais & Louis Coiffier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Stadium https://www.gunners.fr/emirates-stadium https://www.arsenal.com/emirates-stadium/get-to-emirates-stadium https://www.football-the-story.com/ accessed May 24th, 2018
Greenwich, Violette Bousquet & Margot Smolnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich accessed May 26th, 2018
Notting Hill, Rose Boiron & Minna Compoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notting_Hill
https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/london-areas/notting-hill
http://www.millechosesalondres.com/visiter-quartier-notting-hill.html, accessed May 26, 2018
The British LibraryThe British library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest library in theworld! It is located in London, on Euston Road, near St Pancras Station and opened in 1997.It was built by Colin St. John Wilson and happened to be biggest monument of the country in
the 20th century. To get to the main building, one must cross a large court where IsaacNewton’s statue can be contemplated. The heart of the library is a glass tower constituted ofthree floors, where the King’s Library is located; it consists of 65,000 volumes gathered by
King George III between 1763 and 1820.
It is a recent institution, founded in 1973 following the British Library Act. Before that, all thedocuments, archives and books were located in different places, such as Bloomsbury orChancery Lane in London, or in the Yorkshire region. Until 1973, the national library waspart of the British Museum. Now, most of the documents can be found in the magnificentbuilding on Euston Road.
It also contains many old and precious documents: we can find there, for example, twoGutenberg bibles, two 1215 copies of the Magna Carta, 347 pages of the Codex Sinaiticus,the first printed map of the New World, some manuscripts from Leonardo da Vinci, writtencompositions from Mozart, Bach, Mahler, or the only manuscript of the Beowulf poem. Wecan also find a compilation of all British and Irish newspapers from 1820. There are manyexhibitions happening in the library, due to its various and infinitely precious collection. It isopened to everyone and is very helpful for students, especially when looking for very specificinformation.Entrance to the building is free. Access to the reading rooms is also free of charge. However avalid reading pass is required, which you can get upon going through the registration process.
The entrance to the British Library Bust of Colin St John Wilson
Saint Pancras StationSaint Pancras is a central London railway termin al located on Euston Road in the LondonBorough of Camden. It is located near the British library. The station was constructed by theMidland Railway, which had an extensive network across the Midlands and the North ofEngland, but no dedicated line into London. The station was designed by William HenryBarlow, especially the hall Barlow, and constructed on a site that had previously been a slumcalled Agar Town. The station was damaged by a bomb in May 1941 during the Blitz. It wassignificantly extended after the July 2005 terrorist attacks.
Plan of St-Pancras in 1888 The Arcade
Euston Road
Saint Paul’s Cathedral
It’s an English Church located in Central London. The beginning of the constructionstarted in 604 with a man called Mellitus. In 962 and 1087 the cathedral burnt down andwas built again and enlarged every time. But, on the night of September 2 in 1666, theGreat Fire that began in a bakery destroyed much of London including St. Paul'sCathedral. Three years after this disaster, Christopher Wren took over the reconstructionof the church. Before today’s version of this cathedral there were four others but theyalso burnt down.
It has the second largest dome in the world. If you go inside, you will be able to see three different galleries:
- the Whispering Gallery which is very well known for its acoustics. If you are whispering near the wall, a person anywhere in the gallery can hear this whisper as he approaches his ear to this wall.
the Stone Gallery, which is located 53 meters outside the dome.
the Golden Gallery, which is located at the base of the lantern. You can have a beautiful view!
To get there, you can take a lot of public transport:
- the underground at the station called Saint Paul’s on the Central Line.
- the bus.
- walk and cross the Millennium Bridge.
There is an entrance fee for tourists but it’s free for the believers. Saint Paul's is a popular tourist attraction and is still used as a church today.
This historical monument was built in 1066 by William the Conqueror. It has been used as a jail and an execution place but now it's a museum and it still stores the incredible British monarch's Crown Jewels. Once inside, you can visit the White Tower and see its impressive collection of Royal Armouries and Weapons, or enter the Bloody Tower reputed to be where the « Princes in the Tower » were murdered by an unknown hand in around 1483.
This tower is also frightening because it is known to be haunted by the ghosts, if you want to see one of them you must visit it!
Our opinion…This monument is amazing! Its architecture is fabulous, it takes us back in the medieval time thanks to the decorations and the towers! Furthermore, we can have a breathtaking view on Tower Bridge. The Tower of London teaches us more about British culture and monarchy thanks to the explanations which are easy to understand and there is also a paper chase for the kids. The price is a bit expensive (29.50 £) but this wonderful monument is worth being visited. To avoid the crowds, it is better to visit it early in the morning. Moreover, you should take your time to enjoy visiting all the sites. And when you get hungry, you can eat hot dishes and sandwiches in the New Armouries Café located in the Tower.
Westminster Abbey
“Westminster Abbey is steeped in more than a thousand years of history. Benedictine monksfirst came to this site in the middle of the tenth century, establishing a tradition of dailyworship which continues to this day.
The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066 and is the final resting place ofseventeen monarchs. The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is one of the mostimportant Gothic buildings in the country, with the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saintstill at its heart.
A treasure house of paintings, stained glass, pavements, textiles and other artefacts,Westminster Abbey is also the place where some of the most significant people in the nation'shistory are buried or commemorated. Taken as a whole the tombs and memorials comprise themost significant single collection of monumental sculpture anywhere in the UnitedKingdom.”
Westminster abbey is located in Westminster in London near the British Parliament.
get to the cathedral, you can take the bus or the tube.
For the bus:
“From King's Cross St. Pancras 29 min
From Buckingham Palace, Westminster 16 min
From Natural History Museum, Kensington 39 min
From Angel 46 mim
From Southwark Bridge Road, Borough 27 min For the tube:
From King’s Cross St Pancras 23 min
From Buckingham Palace, Westminster 20 min
From Natural History Museum, Kensington 24 min
From Angel 28 min
From Southwark Bridge road, Borough 20 min”
If you are passionate about Gothic art, this is, in the whole of England, the spiritual place you need to visit! Westminster Abbey is an impressive and majestic cathedral.Once there you will be able to see the tombs of several great figures of British history like Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, G. F. Handel, Mary Stuart, King Edward III...
Emirates StadiumThe Emirates Stadium is the new football stadium of London.
The stadium is located in the north of London, in Highbury, District of Islington.
It is open since 2006, now more than 60,000 people can attend to a match in thestadium. The previous one was too old and too small, not all the supporters could get aseat for all the matches; and even more important was the safety issue. After twotragedies in the 80s, a big fire and a huge hooliganism fight, the government asked fora new stadium.
The team that Londoners support is Arsenal, a famous team of the Premier Leaguechampionship, called “Gunners”by supporters and commentator. It was created inLondon in 1886. The club won:
13 Premier League English titles
13 England Cups
2 Capital One Leagues
15 Community Shields
CamdenCamden Town is a weird and wonderful part of London. Located north ofCentral London, just 1 stop away from Euston train station or the Camden TownStation, it’s a right of way to visit the crazy shop fronts, check out CamdenMarket for some food and other wonders, and perhaps see thecanal lock open up.
Camden is known as the more punky part of London. Punkexploded in Camden in July 1976 at the Round House, which isstill a popular music venue today. Prior to the 1970’s, Camden was anabandoned part of North London, it was home to a lot of drunks and disused railgood yards from 100 years. It is a lot grungier than other parts of London andyou can still feel its punk effects, even if they are pretty commercialised thesedays.
You can head to Camden to experience its incredible range of food stalls or justchill by the canal and have a few drinks in the many pubs and bars whilelistening to some punk music.
Camden Market is definitely one of the most famous “attractions” in Camden; itis known the world over, especially for its fresh food stalls, vintage clothes,music shops, handmade jewellery and everything in between. It is a must whenyou go to Camden.Camden High Street is the main road through Camden; this is where the cooland well-known shop fronts are.
Finally the thing you will notice almost immediately is the artistic expressioncovering everything there, from the walls to the shops to the clothes and the people.
Greenwich (Part 1) Greenwich is a very exciting place in London, notable for its maritime history and forgiving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude). In Greenwich you can findvery incredible places like the Royal Observatory which is located on a hill in GreenPark. If you want to learn more about the stories of the stars and the planets, youshould go there. The Royal Observatory played a major role in the history ofastronomy and navigation because of the meridian’s location. This Observatory wasestablished in 1675 for King Charles II and the building was completed in the summerof 1676 by Sir Christopher Wren. This place is now more a museum then anobservatory.
After the Royal Observatory you can see the Queen’s house. This place is one of themost important buildings in British architectural history, being the first consciouslyclassical building to have been constructed in the country. The Queen’s House wasbuilt in 1613 to 1615 by Inigo Jones for Queen Anne of Denmark, King James I’swife; it’s a very beautiful place with a gigantic garden. It’s so incredible to see wherethe Queen used to live.
Greenwich (Part 2)
If you want to go to Greenwich you will have to visit some places which I’ve lovedvisiting like the Maritime Museum. I am also fond of walking in Greenwich Park so ifyou’d like to go for a walk...
Greenwich Park is set on the side of the River Thames and is a great mix of greenspace, gardens and historical features. You can climb up the hill for a panoramic viewacross London.
Also, I advise you to visit the National Maritime Museum which is full of epic storiesof explorations. The museum is also the largest museum of its kind in the world.
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is one of London's most desirable areas. Notting is situated in the London West, in the district of Kensington and Chelsea and near the north-western corner of Hyde Park.You can find everything from world-famous events to restaurants and theatres.And of course you can go to the travel bookshop, which is shown in the movie Notting Hill.
How can you go to Notting Hill?
If you want go to Notting Hill you can take the tube to Notting Hill Gate; that is the main Tube station in the area. The Central line, the District line and the Circle line serve this tube. But if you prefer, there are also a number of London bus routes servicing Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill Gate. For convenience we suggest you download a free London travel map and planyour journey in advance!
What can you do in Notting Hill?
There are many things to do in Notting Hill: you will love shopping in Portobellomarket, eat in fashionable restaurants or watch beautiful events…Portobello Market is one of the best markets in London.The market is called like this because it runs along Portobello Road.Don’t hesitate to visit it; it is one kilometre long; there is no doubt you will discover something interesting to take home with you. Take your camera; you will have beautiful pictures to take.
After visiting the Portobello Market you can go to museums and galleries:
In Notting Hill you have to visit the Museum of Brands. Notting Hill is also a fantastic place to find small and independent art galleries like galleries dedicated to urban art and other types of art.
Also you can find “the crowning jewel in Notting Hill's entertainment scene that is a theatre, which, despite its tiny size, has gained a global reputation for fostering a wealth of new theatrical talent.”
What can you see in Notting Hill?
We advise you to see the latest movie releases in luxurious surroundings; The Electric Cinema on Portobello Road is one of the most popular cinemas in Notting Hill. It is known for providing a fantastic experience due to the plush sofas, footstools, side tables, and bar service provided.
Which restaurants can we suggest?
Notting Hill is known for its fashionable places to eat and drink. We can suggest the Notting Hill restaurant scene that includes a number of varied options. There are also the Michelin star restaurants or restaurants more exotic and restaurants with food of all countries. We advise you, if you have the time, to take a break and go to those restaurants.
