What to do in between appointments

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Many visits to GOSH involve waiting between appointments. Children and families often ask us for suggestions for what to do while waiting, so we have put together this booklet from your suggestions. The booklet is divided into four sections, each covering a different area near the hospital.

Information for children and families

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

08C051 in between.indd 1 22/7/08 17:00:20 Contents Section 3 – Bloomsbury______6 Contents and GOSH Internal Map______2 Russell Square______6

Section 1 – Within GOSH______3 British Museum______6

Peter Pan Café______3 Covent Garden______6

Staff and Visitor Restaurant______3 Map of route to Bloomsbury______7

Coffee Shop______3 Transport Museum______8

Hospital shop______3 Trafalgar Square______8

Patient Advice and Liaison Service (Pals) office_ 3 Bus tours______8

Religious services______3 The Building Centre______9

Section 2 – GOSH and surrounding streets______4 The Cartoon Museum______9

Coram Fields______4 Pollock’s Toy Museum______9

Brunswick Centre______4 Section 4 – King’s Cross______10

Charles Dickens Museum______4 British Library______10

Map of streets surrouding GOSH______5 London Canal Museum______10 Camley Street Natural Park______10 Note: All walking distances and times are approximate. All information in this booklet was correct at the time of Map of route to King’s Cross______11 going to press. Inclusion in the booklet does not constitute endorsement by GOSH

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Nurses Home Information Restaurant Link Corridors

Male & Female Toilets Orangery

Baby Changing Southwood Coffee Shop School Building Ramp

Multifaith Disabled Toilet Room

Shower Activities Centre Cardiac Wing Entrances Camelia Chaplaincy & Chapel Botnar Stairs Labs Pharmacy Radiology

Lift Variety Club Shop Building PALS Peter P a n Public Te lephones Café Reception Dental Cash point / ATM Main Reception Octav Play Outpatient Botnar Area Reception Wing Royal MAIN London

Ambulances Only ENTRANCE Homeopathic O’Gorman Frontage Lamb’s Conduit Street Hospital Building Building

Great Ormond Street T o : Italian Wing Weston House House

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Peter Pan Café Patient Advice and Liaison Service Main reception (Pals) office

Serves light snacks and pastries, , Main reception opposite the shop sandwiches, salads and fresh fruit. Also contains a Pals is a free and confidential service which helps small coffee bar serving speciality Costa coffees. patients, parents and carers with any information, concerns, or problems that they have about their NHS care/service. In addition to this, you can drop Staff and Visitor Restaurant in for advice about the hospital or activities in the Nurses Home Building local area.

Serves breakfast, lunch and supper, and has a Grill Bar where you can watch your dinner cooked Religious services before your eyes. There’s also a deli bar with lots of salads and made-to-order rolls and sandwiches Both St Christopher’s Chapel on the ground floor between 11am and 3pm. of the Variety Club Building and the Multi-Faith Room on the ground floor of the Southwood Building are always open. There is also a Shabbat Coffee Shop room for Jewish families. Services are held in St Christopher’s Chapel on various days of the week Southwood Building – see the Chaplaincy notice board for details. Serves speciality Costa coffees, toasted panninis, Details of services at local churches are also cakes and light healthy option snacks. They often included on the notice board. 3 have special ‘meal deals’ throughout the day so you can get a reduced-price cake if you order a coffee.

Hospital shop Variety Club Building

The shop sells a range of products including newspapers, magazines, sweet and savoury snacks and drinks. It also sells toiletries, cards, games, toys and GOSH logo products.

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Coram Fields See if you can spot the sheep and other animals. Entrance on Guilford Street “A great park. There was so much to play This was once the grounds of on and we loved seeing the animals” the Foundling Hospital and is 5 minutes walk from GOSH now a play area for children. There are playgrounds, open Full disabled access lawns and sand pits and also a wildlife garden and pet’s For children aged up to 12 years old. No corner. adults are admitted without a child.

Entrance free.

Brunswick Centre Watch chocolates being made right in front of you. 4 Off Hunter Street and Bernard Street “There are lots of great shops, and there were loads of place to eat” This is a newly refurbished 5 minutes walk from GOSH shopping centre with a variety of shops, from food to Full disabled access fashion. There is also a good selection of restaurants in the Suitable for all age groups Centre, offering food from all parts of the globe. Entrance free

Charles Dickens Museum Look out for the desk where Dickens sat to write some of his most famous novels. 48 , London WC1

This was the home of Charles “A lovely, interesting, little museum” Dickens, one of Britain’s 10 minutes walk from GOSH greatest novelists and is now a museum celebrating his life and Not accessible for wheelchair users work. Spread over four floors, there are reconstructed rooms Suitable for children aged over six years of the period, artefacts owned by Dickens and examples of his work. Small entrance fee

08C051 in between.indd 4 22/7/08 17:00:27 King’s Cross Thameslink King’s Euston A4200 St. Pancras Cross Euston Road A501 Euston Road Euston A501 Square udSre Hunter Street Judd Street

A201 40 A4200

UCL Gray’s Inn Road Gower Street

Brunswick Centre Coram’s Fields Russell P Malet St Russell PA Bloom- Square A400 sbury Guilford Street Square A5200 ICH Charles Square Dickens Museum

Bloomsbury Street RLHH GOSH 5 Square Queens’ WH IW Conduit Street Lamb’s PA Entrance

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Bloomsbury Way A401 Theobald’s Road A40 High Holborn High Holborn

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Southampton Lamb’s Brunswick P Car park Row Conduit Centre Restaurants Street Supermarket PA Children’s play area Chemists Supermarket Bank Sandwich Sandwich Children’s GOSH Great Ormond Street Hospital shops shops clothes RLHH Royal London Homeopathic Hospital Coffee shops Doctor’s Coffee shops Supermarket surgery Sandwich ICH Institute of Child Health Newsagents Chemists shops Banks Restaurants WH Weston House Cinema IW Italian Wing Chemist Post office

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Russell Square Can you spot the cabman’s shelter built in the 19th century? London WC1

Russell Square is a park with “We loved playing in the fountain” large areas of grass and trees. 5 minutes’ walk from GOSH It is criss-crossed with paths that meet at a fountain in the Full disabled access middle that fires jets of water from the ground into the air. Suitable for all ages

Entrance free

British Museum Look out for the Rosetta Stone, the Turquoise Serpent, the Lewis Chessmen, , Easter Island Statues, Egyptian mummies and African masks. 6 London WC1 The holds in “Interesting and worth a visit” trust for the nation and the 10 minutes’ walk from GOSH world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and Full disabled access living cultures. Housed in one of Britain’s architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the Two trails for children under five years old and four trails for children over six finest in existence, spanning two million years of human years old history. Entrance free

Covent Garden The London Transport Museum is in Covent Garden (see next entry for London WC2 details). “We had a great time looking around Famous for its shops, street the market stalls and loved watching the performers, eating places street artists” and theatres, Covent Garden 10 minutes’ walk from GOSH is an Italian-style piazza formerly the site of a fruit and Full disabled access to ground floor. Some shops in the basement are less accessible. vegetable market. During the

day, the open square has a variety Suitable for all age groups of street performers, including jugglers, musicians and

mime artists. Entrance free

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Whitfield St

Pollock’s Toy Museum Goodge Scala St Street Bernard Street

Goodge St Russell Coram’s Square Fields Russell Guilford Street Store Street Square The

Building Row To Centre 8 ttenham Court Road 59 68 GOSH 91 Square 108 Queen’s Great Ormond Street Cosmo Place

Bloomsbury Street British Museum

Great Russell Street Cartoon

Museum Row Theobald’s Road y Bloomsbury Wa

Southampton High Holborn High Holborn 7 Holborn 59 68 108

Queen St

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Covent Kingsway Garden Leicester Square Covent Garden

London National Transport Gallery Museum St Martins Lane The Trafalgar Aldwych Square The Strand 91

River Thames

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London Transport Museum The simulation rides. Covent Garden Pizza, “I really loved being able to get into so many different vehicles” London WC2 15 minutes’ walk from GOSH The new museum opened in 2007 after a two year multi- Full disabled access million pound refurbishment. It tells the story of the Suitable for all age groups development of London, its transport systems and the people who travelled or Entrance free for children under 16 years worked on them over the past 200 years. The museum old. Adults £8 and Senior Citizens £6.50 also looks at future transport developments and how transport has shaped other world cities.

Trafalgar Square A new statue is put on one of the plinths every year. See what’s on display when London WC2 you visit. Although pigeons cannot be fed in Trafalgar Square anymore, they still 8 Trafalgar Square is one of seem to congregate there. Britain’s best-known tourist “Big and fun to walk around” attractions. It is centred around Nelson’s 172 foot high 25 minutes’ walk from GOSH or a 10 Column, with fountains and minute bus ride on a number 59. statues, and was built to celebrate his defeat Full disabled access over Napoleon. The National Gallery is on the north

side of the square and holds one of the world’s greatest Suitable for all age groups collections of paintings, and it’s free.

Entrance free

Bus tours You will see some of London’s most famous sights on the tour, see how many Operated by the Big Bus you recognise from films and television. Company and The Original Tour “We loved sitting on the top of the bus Company, both tours have open and spotting things as they went by.” top buses around the sights of Pick up points for both tours are 5 minutes’ walk from GOSH on London, with live or recorded commentary. You can hop on No access to the top floor of the bus for and hop off as much as you wheelchair users. like during the tour. Suitable for all age groups

Depends on company used and tour followed.

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The Building Centre Can you spot where the Olympic are going to be held? 26 Store St, “We had fun trying to spot the different London, WC1E 7BT landmarks of London. We even found the The Building Centre contains an hospital.” enormous 1:1500 scale model 20 minutes’ walk from GOSH of Central London, with a display of the buildings that Full disabled access are going to be built in the Suitable for parents and children over 10 future. If you are hungry you years could have lunch in its little cafe. Entrance free

The Cartoon Museum Look out for Denis the Menace, Rupert and Andy Capp 35 Little Russell St, London, WC1A 2HH “We enjoyed drawing our own cartoons” 9 The Museum is dedicated to 15 minutes’ walk from GOSH preserving the best of British cartoons, caricatures, comics Full access to shop, main exhibition and temporary galleries on ground floor. No and animations. The Main access to 1st floor exhibition and young Exhibition shows over 200 original art works. artist gallery. It also has a young artists gallery, library and shop. Suitable for children over 10 years

Children free. Adults £4. Not open mondays

Pollock’s Toy Museum The oldest doll dates back to 1822 1 Scala Street, London, W1T 2HN “I loved the old dolls houses and the teddy bears” This enchanting little museum 25 minutes walkfrom GOS or just around is set in a 250 year old house the corner from Googde Street Station (but well worth the effort) and is like stepping back in time. Wander from room to No disabled access room to view the hundreds of old toys on display. Suitable for all age groups

Adults £5, children under 16 free

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British Library Check out the Magna Carta, handwritten music by Mozart and the Beatles and Euston Road, London NW1 drafts by some very famous authors in ‘The Treasures of the British Library’ This is the national library for exhibition. the UK and holds one copy of “Really interesting and well worth every book published in Britain seeing” and Ireland. The reading rooms 15 minutes walk from GOSH or a 5 minute bus journey on a number 168 or are not open to the public, but 188 bus to Euston followed by a short they have a really interesting, walk permanent free exhibition called Full disabled access ‘The Treasures of the British Library’ as well as a shop and café. Suitable for children aged over 10 years Harry Potter fans could even pop next door and check out platform 9¾ (it really exists) at Kings Cross Station Entrance fee or pop into the newly refurbished St Pancreas station.

London Canal Museum See inside a narrow boat and work out how a large family used to live in such a 12-13 New Wharf Road, small space 10 London N1 “A great little museum, on the Grand Union Canal. We loved climbing into the Learn all about canals and narrow boat and seeing the traditional narrow boats at the London arts and crafts of canal folk. Well worth a visit” Canal Museum. It looks at the 25 minutes walk from GOSH or 10 history of London’s canals, minutes on a 168 or 188 bus to Euston how cargo was carried and followed by a 10 minute walk the people who lived and worked Full disabled access on the waterways. The museum is housed in an old ice factory and still has the ice well on show. Suitable for children aged over 5 years

Small entrance fee

Camley Street Keep an eye out for the herons and Natural Park cormorants 12 Camley Street, King’s Cross, “I liked looking at the terrapins in the pond” London NW1 0PW 30 minutes walk from GOSH (10 minutes Beautiful meadows and walk from Kings Cross) ponds by the Regent’s Canal, Full disabled access a natural environment filled with wildlife. A lovely place to Suitable for all ages spend a few hours. Staff arrange lots of activities eg. arts, crafts and pond dipping. Free

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Camley Street Natural Park

Canal Museum

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Euston Road Pentonville Road Euston Road

Cartwright Gardens 11

Judd Street Grays Inn Road Inn Grays

Marchmont Street

Huntley Street Brunswick Centre Southampton Row Coram’s Bernard Street Fields Russell

Square Doughty Street Russell Guilford Street Square

8 59 68 GOSH Dicken’s 91 House Square 108 Queen’s Great Ormond Street Cosmo Museum Place

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© GOSH Trust May 2008 Great Ormond Street Hospital Ref: 2008C051 for Children NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, Compiled by the Radiology Children’s London WC1N 3JH Champion with assistance from children and families visiting the Radiology Tel: 020 7405 9200 department, in collaboration with the www.goshfamilies.nhs.uk Child and Family Information Group. www.childrenfirst.nhs.uk

Information for children and families

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

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