London Week – Day 3

On Sunday we boarded the tour bus again at Marble Arch and did a more complete circuit of London.

Vertical Garden

Animals at War Memorial

Parliament Square

Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster

Westminster Pier

Medieval looking central London rooftops of historic buildings near Whitehall

We crisscrossed the Thames seeing the sights of London and passing many of the historic buildings.

Tower Bridge from London Bridge

The Shipwrights Arms

Downtown London

The weather was less rainy and from our seats on the top of the bus we got a good view.

The Tower of London

Hung Drawn and Quartered Pub

The old Billingsgate Fish markets

Reliefs carved on All Hallows Church

Heading for St Paul's Cathedral — Heading for St Paul’s Cathedral

St Pauls was closed to public tours due to Sunday services, and the Tower was reputed to take the best part of the day to tour so bypassed those

St Paul's Cathedral — St Paul’s Cathedral

Statue of Queen Anne outside St Paul's — Statue of Queen Anne outside St Paul’s

and got off near Whitehall to see the “Churchill War Rooms”, the bunker built under Whitehall which was the meeting place of the War Cabinet and the nerve centre of the British war effort in World War 2.
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Churchill's Statue — Churchill’s Statue

After that we walked on past the Horse Guards parade ground to Trafalgar Square again and then sought out a meal once again in Villiers Street, before catching the underground back to our home away from home.

The Citadel - a huge concrete bunker covered in ivy near Horseguard's Parade — The Citadel – a huge concrete bunker covered in ivy near Horseguard’s Parade

Admiralty Arch

Villiers Street and the way home

Tomorrow to Oxford…………..