Open daily
Tel: 020 7222 9648
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
4 Battersea Park Road SW8
Nearest station: Battersea Park
Open daily 10.30 – 4.00
www.dogshome.org
Tel: 020 7622 3626
LAMBETH
Brunswick House
30 Wandsworth Road SW8
Nearest underground: Vauxhall
Open Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 5.00
www.lassco.co.uk
Tel: 020 7394 2100
Lambeth Palace
Lambeth palace Road SE1
Nearest underground: Lambeth North or Westminster
Open by appointment
Tel: 020 7898 1200
www.archbishopofcanterbury.org
St Mary at Lambeth, Museum of
Garden History
Lambeth Palace Road SE1
Nearest underground: Lambeth North or Westminster
Open Tuesday – Sunday 10.30 – 5.00
www.museumgardenhistory.org
Tel: 020 7401 8865
London Eye
County Hall
Nearest underground: Waterloo
Open Winter: October – May
10.00am – 8.00pm daily
Summer: June – September
10.00am – 9.00pm daily
www.londoneye.com
SOUTHWARK
Southwark Cathedral
London Bridge SE1
Nearest underground: London Bridge
Open Monday – Friday 8.00 – 6.00 Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays 9.00 – 6.00
http://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org
Tel: 020 7367 6700
Old Operating Theatre
Nearest underground: London Bridge
Open daily 10.30 – 5.00
www.thegarret.org.uk
Tel: 020 7188 2679
Tate Modern
Nearest underground: Mansion House (via Wobbly Bridge) or London Bridge
Open Sunday – Thursday, 10.00 – 18.00
Friday and Saturday, 10.00 – 22.00
Tel: 020 7887 8888
www.tate.org.uk
Globe Theatre
South Bank
Nearest underground: Mansion House (via Wobbly Bridge) or London Bridge
Open daily 10 October to 17 April 10.00 – 5.00 18 April to 9 October 9.00 – 12.00 and 12.30 – 5.00 Sunday 9.00 – 11.30 and 12.00 – 5.00
www.shakespeares-globe.org
Tel: 020 7902 1500
Clink Museum
Clink Street SE1
Nearest underground: London Bridge
Open Monday – Friday 10.00 – 6.00
Saturday and Sunday 10.00 – 9.00
www.clink.co.uk
Tel: 020 7403 0900
Design Museum
Shad Thames SE1
Nearest underground: Tower Hill (via Tower Bridge)
Open daily 10.00 – 5.45
www.designmuseum.org
Tel: 0870 909 9009
Bermondsey Market
Bermondsey Street SE1
Nearest underground: Bermondsey or London Bridge
Open Fridays 4.00 – 12.00
www.bermondseysquare.co.uk
GREENWICH
Painted Hall, Greenwich
Greenwich SE10
Nearest underground: Cutty Sark DLR
Open daily 10.00 – 5.00
www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org
Tel: 020 8269 4747
National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory
Greenwich SE10
Nearest underground: Greenwich or Cutty Sark DLR
Open daily 10.00 – 5.00
www.nmm.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8312 6565
Cutty Sark
Nearest underground: Cutty Sark
*Closed for foreseeable future due to fire in 2007
www.cuttysark.org.uk
Millennium Dome now The O2
Drawdock Road SE10
Nearest underground: North Greenwich
www.millenium-dome.com
Charlton House
Charlton Road SE7
Nearest station: Charlton
Open Monday – Friday 9.00 – 10.00 Saturday 10.00 – 5.00
www.greenwich.gov.uk
Thames Barrier Exhibition Centre
Unity Way, Woolwich SE18
Nearest station: Charlton
Open April – September 10.30 – 4.00
October – March 11.00 – 3.30
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Index of People
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Abramovich, Roman 95
Adam, James 75
Adam, Robert 19, 75, 174
Adams, John 98
Adams, John Quincy 10
Adams. Gerry 179
Addington, Henry 160
Addison, Joseph 64, 188
Adelaide, Queen 5, 7
Aga Khan, The 110
Ainsworth, Robert 156
Airy, George 129
Aitken, Jonathan 132
Albert, Prince 8, 58, 86, 96, 98, 109, 120
Alexander, Crown Prince 98
Alexandra, Queen 108
Alfege, St 250
Allen, Charles 33
Allen, Chesney 166
Alleyn, Edward 36
Amery, John 211
Amery, Julian 211
Amery, Leo 211
Amies, Hardy 100
Anderssen, Adolf 78
Andrewes, Launcelot 10
Anjou, Margaret of 247
Anne of Denmark, Queen 72
Anne, Queen 91, 109, 185, 250
Annigoni 45
Antonioni, Michaelangelo 252
Aragon, Catherine of 39
Archer, Jeffrey 219
Armstrong, Louis 83
Armstrong, Sir William 149
Arne, Thomas 85
Arnold, Benedict 212
Arthur, Prince 39
Ashmole, Elias 222
Askey, Arthur 210
Aspinall, John 100
Asquith, Lord 86
Astafieva, Princess Seraphina 181
Astaire, Adele 74
Astaire, Fred 74
Astley, Major Philip 225
Astor, Lord 42
Astor, Nancy 92
Atkinson, Rowan 157
Attenborough, Lord 143
Attlee, Clement 165
Augustus, Emperor 76
Austin, Herbert 84
Aylward, June 189
Ayres, Alice 60
Babington, Anthony 87
Bacon, Francis 77, 81, 188
Baden Powell, Lord 34
Baird, John Logie 78, 83, 84
Baker, Herbert 27
Baker, Robert 91
Balfour, Arthur 121
Ball, John 251
Baltimore, Lord 54
Bancroft, Anne 202
Bankhead, Tallulah 93
Banks, Sir Joseph 176, 216
Barfield, Julia 226
Baring, Edmund 30
Baring, Francis 30
Baring, John 30
Barnardo, Thomas 164
Barnett, Canon Samuel 165
Barrett, Michael 60
Barrie, J.M. 186
Barrie, Sir James 97
Barry, Charles 31
Barry, John 219
Barry, Sir Charles 119, 127, 141, 229
Barry, Sir John Wolfe 141
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph 75, 76, 208, 213
Beard, Thomas 182
Beasant, Annie 63
Beatles, The 96
Beatrice, Princess 83
Beaufort, Duke of 111
Beaufort, Joan 235
Beaufort, Margaret 74
Beck, James 210
Becket, Thomas 6
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nbsp; Bedford, Earl of 84
Beeton, Mrs 35
Beeton, Samuel 35
Behn, Aphra 130
Bell, Alexander Graham 99
Bellingham, John 252
Benbow, Admiral John 245
Benn, Tony 131
Bennet Lawes, John 254
Bennett, Arnold 91
Bennett, Tony 201
Bentham, Jeremy 133
Bentine, Michael 136
Bentley, Derek 211
Bentley, John Francis 13, 136, 229
Bentley, Nathaniel 37
Berkoff, Steven 154, 170
Bernard, Jeffrey 89
Bernini, Paolo 178
Betjemen, Sir John 61, 143, 213
Beveridge, William 165
Bianco, Francesco 112
Biggs, Ronnie 212
Binnie, Sir Alexander 159, 219
Birkenhead, Lord 116
Birley, Mark 100
Black Prince 43, 73
Bladwin, Stanley 134
Blair, Tony 87, 117
Blake, George 107, 200
Blake, William 83, 96, 141, 212, 231, 241
Bligh, Captain William 147, 222
Blood, Colonel Thomas 147
Blore, Edward 104
Blunt, Anthony 210
Blyton, Enid 210
Boadicea, Queen 120
Boehm, J.E. 94
Bogarde, Dirk 181
Boleyn Anne 223, 141, 173, 247
Bolton, Prior William 62
Bonaparte, Prince Lucien 203
Bonham Carter, Jane 199
Bonnie Prince Charlie 72
Boon, Dr James 255
Booth, William 167
Borough, Stephen 150
Borough, William 150
Borrow, George 180
Bosanquet, Reginald 210
Boswell, James 3, 87, 117, 119
Boulestin, Marcel 87
Bourchier, Elizabeth 32
Bowie, David 201
Bowler, Thomas 110
Bowler, William 110
Bowman, Christopher 21
Boydell, John 35
Boyle, Robert 81
Bracken, Brendan 132
Braddock, Lady Almeria 95
Braganza, Catherine of 73, 198, 222
Braham, Philip 154
Brangwyn, Sir Frank 23
Brawne, Fanny 180
Bremer, Frederick 84
Bridge, Richard 165
Bristow, Henry 60
Britton, Thomas 63
Brontë, Anne 20
Brontë, Charlotte 20
Brooks, Reginald 221
Brosnan, Pierce 144
Brougham, Lord 92
Brown, Daniel 54
Brown, Ford Madox 177
Brown, Gordon 48
Brown, James 99
Brown, Sarah 99
Brummell, Beau 110
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 77, 158, 161, 179
Brunel, Marc 179, 239
Brunswick, Caroline of 198
Brunswick, Duke of 218
Bryant, Sir Arthur 91
Buchanan, Jack 196
Buckingham, Duke of 77, 104
Bunyan, John 66
Burbage, James 36, 46
Burbage, Richard 36, 46, 187, 234
Burgess, William 189
Burney, Dr 175
Burney, Fanny 175
Burton, Decimus 93
Bush, Irving T 78
Bygraves, Max 241
Byron, Lord 91, 92, 102, 110, 188
Cade, Jack 6, 237, 251
Cadogan, Dr William 193
Caine, Michael 82, 200
Caine, Sir Michael 241
Calvi, Roberto 47
Campbell, Alastair 117
Campbell, Naomi 87, 229
Canning, George 209
Canova, Antonio 95, 227
Carlyle, Thomas 112, 177, 182
Carter, Howard 210
Casabianca, Admiral 248
Cash, Johnny 201
Cass, Mama 101
Castile, Eleanour of 108, 240
Castlereagh, Lord 209
Catherine, Queen 112
Caunt, Benjamin 128
Cave, Edward 62
Cavell, Edith 169
Cavendish, Henry 229
Cavendish, Lord George 101
Caxton, William 51, 119, 134
Cayley, Sir George 101
Chamberlain, Neville 134
Chambers, Sir William 73
Channon, Paul 179
Chantrey, Sir Francis 26
Chaplin, Charlie 93, 241
Charles I 52, 81, 108, 109, 113, 115, 117, 126, 222, 224
Charles II 4, 7, 73, 81, 82, 103, 105, 107, 109, 112, 117, 124, 140, 147, 174, 180, 245, 247
Charles, Prince of Wales 40, 104, 120, 186
Charlotte, Queen 92, 108
Charrington, Frederick 168
Chaucer, Geoffrey 9, 13, 47, 73, 123
Cheyne, Lady Jayne 178
Childs, Maurice 197
Chippendale, Thomas 81
Chopin, Frederic 32
Christian, Fletcher 147
Christie, Agatha 151
Christie, John 42, 190, 216
Christie, Linford 200
Churchill, Sir Winston 33, 40, 98, 119, 120, 126
Clapton, Eric 181
Clarence, Duke of 104, 140
Claridge, William 98
Clarke, William Tierney 196
Clayton, Revd William ‘Tubby’ 10
Cleese, John 238
Cleland, John 55
Cleves, Anne of 109, 141, 174, 251
Coke, William 110
Colefax, Lady 132
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 246
Colet, Dean of St Paul’s 40
Collins, Canon John 48
Compton, Bishop 195
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 77, 150
Condell, Henry 33
Congreve, Sir William 252
Conran, Terence 183
Constable, John 227
Constantine, Emperor 15
Cook, Captain James 149, 152, 167, 229, 239, 245
Cook, Elizabeth 229
Cope, Sir Walter 188
Coverdale, Miles 5
Coward, Noel 93
Cowper, William 9
Cranmer, Archbishop Thomas 223, 224
Cranmer, Sir Thomas 32
Crapper, Thomas 181
Craven, Lord 195
Crippen, Dr 42
Crisp, Sir Nicholas 198
Crocker, John 107
Cromwell, Oliver 32, 73, 87, 117, 124, 168, 208, 221
Cromwell, Richard 86
Cromwell, Thomas 35, 141, 169, 209, 224
Crosby, Sir John 15
Cruise, Tom 143
Cubitt, Thomas 133
Cumming, Commander Mansfield 116
Cunard, Lady 93
Cunard, Samuel 180
Curtis, Richard 190
Curzon, Cynthia 93
Dali, Salvador 226
Damon, Matt 228
Dance the Elder, George 48
Dance the Younger, George 32, 48
Dangerfield, Edmund 84
Dare, Virginia 55
Darwin, Charles 92, 187
Dashwood, Sir Francis 21
Davies, Ray 227
Davison, Emily 127
Davison, Monkhouse 11
de Breaute, Falkes 218, 230
de Burley, Sir Simon 140
de Calonne, Charles Alexander 102
de Colechurch, Peter 6
de Ferranti, Sebastian 254
de la Warre, Lord 54
de Menezes, Jean Charles 230
de Montfort, Simon 125
de Valois, Catherine 238
De Veil, Colonel Thomas 86
de Waleis, Henry 169
de Worde, Wynkyn 51, 55
Deans, Mickey 182
Defoe, Daniel 14, 20, 52, 246
Dench, Judi 189
Denmark, Anne of 247
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bsp; Derby, Lord 113
Diana, Princess of Wales 109, 185, 186
Dickens, Charles 11, 21, 56, 65, 66, 72, 77, 107, 148, 150, 151, 182, 188
Dickens, Monica 199
Dire Straits 254
Disraeli, Benjamin 24, 58, 87, 92, 102, 168, 251
Dixon, Joseph 212
Doggett, Thomas 12
Dolland, John 166
Donne, John 39, 54, 55, 86
Dors, Diana 135
Douglas, Lord Alfred 74, 99
Doulton, John 194, 220
Dowding, Sir Hugh 72
Downey Jr., Robert 143
Downing, Sir George 117
D’Oyly Carte, Richard 74, 98
Drake, Sir Francis 67, 244
Drake, William 60
Drummond, Edmund 121
Dryden, John 131
Du Cane, Edmund 200
Dwight, John 194
Earnshaw, Thomas 66
Eccleston, Christopher 212
Ecclestone, Bernie 185
Ekland, Britt 135
Edward I 9, 24, 64, 77, 86, 124, 127, 139, 168
Edward II 126
Edward III 239
Edward IV 124, 140, 247
Edward the Confessor 32, 122, 123, 125, 129
Edward V 123, 124, 140
Edward VI 247
Edward VII 108, 112, 221
Edward VIII 123
Edward, Prince of Wales 96
Effingham, Lord Howard of 245
Eisenhower, General 40
Elgar, Edward 28
Elgar, Sir Edward 84
Eliot, George 176, 216
Eliot, T.S. 177
Elizabeth I 23, 54, 67, 109, 129, 173, 244, 247
Elizabeth II 8, 40, 45, 101
Elizabeth, Queen Mother 104, 126
Ellington, Duke 83
Elphinstone, Mrs 95
Elwes, Simon 183
Ely, Bishop of 64
Epstein, Jacob 135
Epstein, Sir Jacob 178, 210
Erkenwald, Bishop 194
Escoffier, Auguste 74
Ethelbert, King 38
Ethelred the Unready 6
Eugenie, Empress 98
Evans, Dame Edith 85
Evelyn, John 31, 167, 220, 245
Fagan, Michael 104
Fairbanks, Douglas 93
Faithfull, Marianne 176
Faraday, Michael 99, 160
Farquhar, George 81
Farrell, Terry 219
Fawkener, Sir Everard 216
Fawkes, Guy 6, 41, 117, 126, 127
Fayed, Mohamed Al 195
Fielding, Henry 46, 86
Finch, Peter 202
Fisher, Bishop 6, 10, 140
Fitzgerald, Ella 201
Fitzjames, Bishop 194
Fitzroy, Admiral Robert 187
Flambard, Ranulf 140
Flamsteed, John 249
Flanagan, Bud 166
Fleming, Eve 179
Fleming, Ian 111, 134, 161, 179
Fletcher, WPC 113
Follett, Barbara 179
Follett, Ken 179
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