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Saturday 30 November 2002. We had had a bit of a turn on the London Eye and came down to terra firma to walk across the Thames over Westminster Bridge. We walked behind the Houses of Parliament. Fran fancied looking around Westminster Abbey but there was a huge queue. So we went back to Whitehall and a look at the imposing but not exactly inviting offices of Government. siaran99 linkslot99 I had an idea and we decided to go off in search of the Cabinet War Rooms, passing Her Majesty's Treasury. We eventually found it at the end of the street facing St James' Park near a statue of Clive of India. During World War II this was Prime Minister Churchill's secret bunker from which the war was directed. Inside all was as it had been left at the end of the war. The Government staff and Senior Officers of the Armed Forces had been replaced with waxworks but everything else was original. It was kept secret for forty years. The day after the Japanese surrendered the lights wer...

Saturday 30 November 2002. In my revious article we finished on The Strand with a look at St Clement Danes. We'll start in more or less the same spot then walk along Fleet Street to St Pauls, across the river to Shakespeare's Globe and then take a bus to the West End shops. From St Clement Danes, we turn to admire the facade of the Royal Courts of Justice siaran99 linkslot99 or as they are more usually known: The Law Courts. This is the home of the UK's High Court and Court of Appeal, although it also tours the circuit to sit in major cities around the UK. For most of England's history such courts were held at Westminster Hall - they are not called "Royal" for nothing. Creating a purpose-built home for the Justices required two Acts of Parliament to be written and passed into Law and the displacement of families from 450 houses which had to be demolished to make way for the building which commenced in 1873 with the building being officially opened by Qu...

Sunday 1 December 2002. We had chosen this particular weekend to come to London especially for this event. We were staying in the Premier Inn at Wembley and it was a short walk to the exhibition hall where the Record and Film Fair was being held. There were far more records than films, sad to say. But at the time I was collecting records from the 1930s up to the late 1950s on 78 rpm 10-inch shellac discs. Again, sadly, only one stall had any of those in the entire place. I found a familiar face on one stall though - Ian MacLagan of The Small Faces ! So we chatted for a while and then I moved on, aware that there were a couple of other people I wanted to catch up with. One was the actress Ingrid Pitt who was sitting quietly behind her sets of photos. I didn't know Ingrid then as well as I would in later years, but I knew she could be very witty, but had also had quite a traumatic early life. I think there were more people there for the records than there were for film-related ...

This series of articles covers a short weekend break in London over 30 November - 1 December 2002. We had a look around London on the Saturday and visited a record and film fair in Wembley on the Sunday, catching up aith a few celebrities. siaran99 linkslot99 Click each of the photographs below to read the articles. A link at the bottom of each one will bring you back to this Index. Return to Holidays and Days Out in the UK Index

Saturday 17 August 2002. We had booked a week's stay in a B&B in Great Yarmouth, a well remembered childhood holiday town for both myself and Miss Franny, though if we ever caught a glimpse of each other during those childhood years, it passed us by completely... siaran99 linkslot99 Apart from its own attractions, Great Yarmouth is a convenient spot to do a bit of touring around Norfolk and Suffolk in a car with many activities and places of interest, some of which we'll visit during the week. The first thing we did on arrival though was book front row seats for a couple of shows. Next, a nostalgic look at Joyland which is just next to the Britannia Pier. It seems amazing, but all those rides were them same when I was a little lad. They are just a tad more expensive per ride than they were then but I suppose wages are a tad more than they were back then too. The sight and sound of the snails in particular took me right back to the late 1950s... Quite a lot of everythi...

Sunday 18 August 2002. It's a day of rest because that's what Sundays on holiday in Great Yarmouth were all about when I was a kid. Admittedly journeys down from (at the time) Rochdale took a lot longer in the early to mid 1960s than they do now, but even so, we left Blackpool the previous day early in the morning and had got here in the afternoon. The lack of motorways in the 60s was one factor and the other was Dad's Ford Popular 100E which had windscreen wipers that were driven not by electrics but by the vacuum caused by the downstroke of the pistons. Fine when the car was at rest, but as the accelerator was depressed to make the car move, air got through the carburettor and there was little or no vacuum and therefore no moving windscreen wipers. Driving through pouring rain was something of an adventure... A very slow and long adventure if you wanted to see where you were going. Trips to Great Yarmouth in those days started around 11:00pm or midnight. We would stop a...

Monday 19 August 2002. We are staying in Great Yarmouth for a week and after a relaxing day in the town yesterday, we wake on Monday morning ready for a bit of exploring. siaran99 linkslot99 So we set off after our customary trip to the beach hut for coffee and make our first stop of the day at Lowestoft just down the coast. It is the most easterly town in the United Kingdom and consequently the first town to see the sunrise every day. Well... on the days when the sun isn't blocked by clouds, rain, fog, snow, and vast alien space ships... The photo shows the East Point Pavilion from where you can sit in complete dry and strain to see the sunrise through the clouds, rain, fog, snow... (I may have exaggerated about the vast alien spaceships...) As with many seaside fishing villages, the harbour has turned more into a marina for pleasure craft owned by people who rarely visit and even more rarely actually take them out to sea. The Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. Founded in 1859,...