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A Brief Guide to

Central and South West London Club 90th Anniversary Celebration Weekend- 12th to 14th May 2017

Please check with venues or online for opening times and any other details you require (international telephone code +44) Note: for retirees, students or those with disabilities there may be concessionary fees – please ask at each venue

Major museums, galleries and attractions

Venue Nearest Location and contact Why visit? Other information underground station / Russell Great Russell Street WC1B World and British Free, fee for special Square 3DG history exhibitions Tel. 020 7323 8299 / WC2N 5DN Internationally Free, fee for special renowned art exhibitions Tel. 020 7747 2885 National Portrait Charing Cross / St Martin’s Place Internationally Free, fee for special Gallery Leicester Square renowned portraiture exhibitions. Around WC2H 0HE the corner from Tel. 020 7306 0055 National Gallery Tower Gate EC3N 4AB Britain’s first stone Admission fee castle, British Crown (cheaper online). Tel: 020 3166 6000 Jewels Also, nearby Royal Academy of / , Eclectic contemporary Admission fee to Art and historical art special exhibitions Piccadilly W1J 0BD Tel. 020 7300 8000

Venue Nearest Location and contact Why visit? Other information underground station Science Museum South Kensington Exhibition Road SW7 2DD History of science and Donation interactive galleries encouraged. This Tel. 020 7942 4000 and the following two museums are in close proximity Victoria and Albert South Kensington Cromwell Road SW7 2RL Fine Arts collections Free Museum Tel. 020 7942 2000 Natural History South Kensington Cromwell Road SW7 5BD Animatronic T-Rex Free Museum Tel. 20 7942 5000 Abbey Westminster 20 Dean's Yard SW1P 3PA Burials/ memorials of Admission fee (as museum)/ Big British monarchs/ unless attending Ben Tel. 020 7222 5152 famous others services. Check opening hours St Pauls Cathedral St Pauls St Paul's Churchyard Burial place of Admiral Admission fee (as museum) Nelson unless attending EC4M 8AD services Tel. (Mon Tue Thu Fri: 8am - 2.45pm) 0207 246 8357

Parks and Gardens Venue Nearest Location and Why visit? Other underground contact information station Hyde Park / W2 2UH Serpentine Lake, Speakers' Opposite no. Lancaster Gate / Corner and the Diana, Princess 63 Tel. 0300 061 2114 Knightsbridge of Wales Memorial Fountain Kensington High W2 2UH , the Italian At western Street Gardens, , end of Hyde Tel. 300 061 2000 Statue Park St James Park Victoria / SW1A 2BJ View of Westminster Tel. 0300 061 2350 Green Park Green Park SW1A 2BJ Near to Buckingham Palace and contains memorials. Tel. 0300 061 2350 Regents Park Regents Park / NW1 4NR Queen Mary's Gardens, William / Andrews Nesfield's Avenue Tel. 0300 061 2300 Great Portland Gardens, Open Air Theatre, Street ,

Shopping- department stores and areas Venue Nearest Location and contact Why Other underground visit? information station / Knightsbridge Harrods - 87-135 Brompton Road Luxury Knightsbridge goods SW1X 7XL Tel: (020) 7730 1234 Harvey Nichols – 109-125, Knightsbridge, SW1X 7RJ Tel: 0207 235 5000 / / W1B 3AG (Oxford Circus station) Shopping! Regents Street Marble Arch / Oxford Circus / / Bond Street/ Bond Street/ Bond Street - W1S 1SR Luxury Near Royal Burlington Green Park goods Academy of Burlington - 51 Piccadilly, W1J 0QJ Arcade Art

Shopping- markets

Venue Nearest Location and Why visit? Other information underground contact station Borough 8 Southwark High end food Very busy at weekends. Also, Market Street SE1 1TL market nearby are Crossbones , The George Inn (rare galleried pub) Tel: 020 7407 and a walk along South Bank of 1002 Thames Old Liverpool Street 16 Horner Youth fashion Nearby Brick Lame – famous for / Square E1 6EW curry and Market High Street /Aldgate East Columbia Old Street E2 7NN Flowers, plants, Sundays only Road Flower vintage fashion Market Camden NW1 8AF Vintage and youth Open 7 days a week but maximum Market fashion, eclectic number of stalls on Sundays collectables and gifts Portobello Notting Hill W11 Antiques, clothing Open 7 days a week but maximum Road Gate and gifts number of stalls on Saturdays

Pubs

Venue Nearest Location and contact Why visit? Other information underground station Old Mitre Farringdon 1 Ely Court, Ely Place Built 1546 - claims Closed at weekends EC1N 6SJ Elizabeth 1st danced round the tree in the courtyard Tel. 020 7405 4751

Jerusalem Farringdon 55 Britton Street, Clerkenwell Former patrons include Tavern EC1M 5UQ Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth, Oliver Tel. 0207 490 4281 Goldsmith, David Garrick and also the young Handel Ye Old Blackfriars 145 EC4A 2BU Claims to be ’s Closed Sundays. Cheshire oldest pub, former patrons Nearby is Temple Tel. 020 7353 6170 Cheese include Church (Knights and P.G. Wodehouse Templars) open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10am-4pm and 2pm-4pm on Wednesdays

Hidden London and Independent Museums/ Galleries

Venue Nearest Location and contact Why visit? Other information underground station Wellcome Euston 183 Euston Road NW1 2BE Medicalia and medical history Free, admission for Collection special exhibitions Tel. 020 7611 2222 Kings Cross 96 Euston Road NW1 2DB Free permanent collection holds many Admission fee for works of literature, letters, music and special exhibitions Tel. 0207 412 7676 original of Magna Carta (display varies) Petrie Museum Warren Street University College of World renowned collection of ancient Admission fee London, Malet Place WC1E Egyptian and Sudanese artefacts 6BT collected by Flinders Petrie and his team Tel. 020 7679 2884 Canal Museum Kings Cross 12-13 New Wharf Road N1 History of canals and 19th century ice Admission fee 9RT storage house Tel: 020 7713 0836

Foundling Russell 40 Brunswick Square Museum commemorating London’s Admission fee Museum Square WC1N 1AZ orphans and the charity set up to assist them. Satirist William Hogarth Tel. 020 7841 3600 gave work and Sir Frederick Handel dedicated the Messiah Charles Russell 48 Doughty Street WC1N London home of author Charles Admission fee Dickens Square 2LX Dickens Museum Tel. 020 7405 2127 Wallace Art Bond Street Manchester Square W1U The Laughing Cavalier Free Collection 3BN Tel. 020 7563 9500 Sir John Holborn 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields British architect (of Free Soanes WC2A 3BP and ) and Museum collector Tel 20 7405 2107 Leighton Kensington 12 Road W14 The home and collection of Pre- Admission fee House High Street 8LZ Raphaelite artist Sir Frederick Museum Leighton Tel. Mon-Fri 020 7602 3316. Sat-Sun 020 7471 9160 Old Operating London 9a St Thomas Street SE1 18/19th century operating theatre in Admission fee Theatre and Bridge 1LY the roof of a church Herb Garret Tel. 020 7955 4791

Interesting Neighbourhoods

Area Nearest underground Location and contact Why visit? Other station information Hampstead NW3 2RR Historic village, Hampstead (underground)/ Heath, home of poet John Tel. 020 7332 3868 Keats, , (overground) Freud Museum NW3 5SX Tel: 020 7435 2002 Archway and bus Highgate cemetery N6 6PJ Independent shops, Highgate Cemetery is in cemetery, two parts, with Tel. 020 8340 1834 many famous burials inc. , entry fees apply, west section is via guided tour only Oxford Circus, Central London Theatreland, Chinatown, Leicester Square, LGBT London and many Piccadilly Circus independent shops and restaurants

Covent , Central London 18th century Palladian style Both Garden Charing Cross, market building and mainstream and Leicester Square and shopping independent Holborn shops in the surrounding area, also St Pauls – the actor’s church, the , Drury Lane and Bow Street Island Gardens or by South East London The Meridian, market, Cutty Market open ferry along River Sark (historic clipper ship), daily, stalls vary Thames museums and park Notting Ladbroke Grove/ West London antiques Saturdays Hill Westbourne Park market, film location Windsor Via Paddington Outside of London Windsor Castle and Great Day trip (mainline railway) Park, historic town Richmond Richmond South West London Historic town and park on Day trip (underground or the River Thames overground)