Five really useful tools Learn to navigate around your Discovering 2017 London Nook book using the page slider, the Jump to page short cut, the Find in book keyboard, the Go back to page ** searcher, Ask Dad to teach you. and the blue touch-and-go words.

Question 1: Pages 112 and 113

What is the name of this building? ______Who lives here? ______

Remember that a ‘page’ in a Nook book will last for three or four screens. So if you go to a page and don’t find what you’re looking for, try scrolling forward or back a few times. And when you find it, always scroll on for extra information.

Question 2: Pages 106, 107, 202 and 203

On the left of this picture is a high bell tower with a huge clock at the top. On the right is a big ferris wheel-like structure.

A What is the name of the bell in the tower? ______B What is the big wheel called? ______C What is the name of the river between them? ______

Question 3

One of these famous London buildings is nick-named ‘The Gherkin’. Which one do you think it is? Can you name the others? Write all the names in the boxes.

Pages 106 and 107 Page 163 Pages 198 and 199

Page 104

Page 229 Page 167 Ask Dad

Page 173

When you use your London Family Guide, always look for the Kids’ Corner sections, like the ones on pages 113 and 170. Page 288 Question 4: Pages 163 and 169

This bridge is right next to the . As you can see, the roadway (with a red bus on it) is very low.

A What is the name of the bridge? ______B What river does it cross? ______C How do tall ships get through it to continue sailing up the river? ______

Question 5: Pages 187, 188 and 189

This is a reconstructed theatre in London, opened in 1997: The Globe. The original theatre was built in 1599. On 29 June 1613 the original Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, and ignited the wooden beams and thatching.

No one was hurt except a man whose burning trousers were put Can you name the famous writer many of whose out with a bottle of beer. plays were performed here around 1600? ______It was rebuilt in the following year, but was pulled down in 1644. Can you name one of his plays? ______

Question 6: Pages 163, 164 and 165

This is a Warder of a certain palace and fortress in London.

A By what name are the Yeomen Warders popularly known? ______

B What fortress do they guard? ______

Question 7: Page 127

Hamleys is probably the best toy shop in the world. Use the Practical Information tag on page 127 in your London Family Guide to answer these questions:

What street is in? ______At what tube station would you get out to visit Hamleys? ______Question 8: Page 121, and use Google for more information if you need to

A Whose statue stands on top of this column in ? B Who was he? What did he do? C What is Trafalgar Square named after?

A ______B ______C ______

Question 9: Pages 157 and 158

This is Madame Tussaud. What is she famous for in London?

______

You know who this is; but only one of these pictures shows the real Wayne Gretzky. The other pictures show waxwork dummies. Which one is the real Gretzky? Tick the box.

Obviously not this one!

Which of these is the real Donald Trump?

And which of these is the real Jack Sparrow?

Question 10: Google this if you don’t know the answers.

This is the national flag of the and Northern Ireland. It is called the ‘Union Jack’. You will see it all over London.

It is made up of three separate crosses stacked on top of one another:

At the bottom, the cross of Saint Andrew:

Placed on top of that, the cross of Saint Patrick:

On top of both of them, the cross of Saint George:

The patron saint of Wales (Saint David) is not represented in the Union Jack.

A What is a ‘patron saint’? ______B Of what countries are Saint Andrew, Saint Patrick and Saint George the patron saints? ______C Does America have a patron saint? Yes! What is the saint’s name? ______

Question 11: Google this if you don’t know the answers.

London is the capital city of and of the United Kingdom. About 10 million Do you know people live and work there. That’s more how many than in New York! people live in Atlanta? The United States of America is About _____ made up (mainly) of 50 states.

The United Kingdom is made up (mainly) of four countries. Do you know what they are? Here are some clues:

______

Cut the page off here

Study the Union Jack above very carefully, then cut these flags up with scissors to make your own Union Jack. Take special care to include the white spaces on the Union Jack.

The

You will see a lot of military uniforms in London. Seven senior regiments of the British Army make up the Household Division, which is responsible for many ceremonial duties in London. This is how the Household Division is organised:

Household Division

Household Cavalry The Guards Division (the Queen’s official bodyguard) (Foot Regiments)

The Life Guards The Blues and Royals Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards

Irish Guards Welsh Guards

Their uniforms look similar, but there are important details that help you to tell them apart.

The Blues and Royals These are the two regiments of the Household Cavalry: What differences can you see?

Tunics: ______

The Life Guards Helmet plumes: ______

And these are the uniforms of the five regiments of the Guards Division:

Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Irish Guards Welsh Guards Single buttons Buttons in pairs Buttons in threes Buttons in fours Buttons in fives White plume Red plume No plume Blue plume White and green plume left of cap right of cap right of cap left of cap Question 12: All the help you need is on the previous page.

Here are soldiers on duty in London. You should be able to tell what regiments they belong to:

Question 13: The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom: Pages 163, 164 and 165

There are 141 ceremonial objects among the Crown Jewels. Some of them are brought out for special occasions: coronations, royal christenings and weddings, and for the opening of the British parliament. These are the most important items among the Crown Jewels:

The Crown of St Edward The Sovereign’s Orb The Sovereign’s Sceptre

Who is this person? ______What is the occasion? ______

What is a ‘sovereign’? The Crown shows that she has ______royal authority.

Can you see the Crown, The Orb (it is a cross over a globe) shows God’s power over the world, the Orb and the Sceptre? because she represents Christ on Earth. Draw a circle round each one. The Sceptre (in the shape of a rod) shows that the monarch rules on Earth. Question 14: Pages 125 and 126

These are pictures of a circus – the kind of circus that you know:

But this is also a picture of a circus. What is its name, and why do you think it is called a circus? ______

Can you see two very familiar advertising signs on the building at the far end of the Circus? ______

Question 15: No Google! Work it out logically.

What places are these boxes describing? Draw a line from the box to the place.

This is where the Crown Jewels are kept. It was used as a prison for hundreds of years, and many prisoners were tortured here and executed nearby.

Buckingham Palace This is where kings and queens of the United Kingdom are crowned. The building was started in 1245. A section of the church is called Poets’ Corner. The creators of Oliver The Twist and Mowgli are buried there, and there Parade is a memorial to the author of The Lion, the Witch and the .

This is where the Queen lives (with her family) and works when she is in London.

This is the oldest museum in the world. It was founded in 1753. It owns about 8 million iitems.

This is where the Changing of the Queen’s Life Guard takes place every day at 11 o’clock.. The Houses of Parliament The Tower of London This is where the British government meets and works. You can think of it as Britain’s ‘Capitol Building’. It is also called the . Question 16: Pages 81, 82, 84 and 85. No Google!

London has some of the world’s most famous sports stadiums. What is the main sport played at each of these places?

Wimbledon ______Twickenham ______Lord’s and ______Wembley Stadium ______

Question 17: Page 159

Who used to live (so the story goes) at 221b in London? ______

Question 18: You should know all this.

This little fellow was named after the London railway station where he was found by the Brown family, who adopted him.

A What is his (and the railway station’s) name? ______B What country did he originally come from? ______

C What does he always keep in his hat, for emergencies? ______D What did the label on his coat say (not on his suitcase), when the Brown family found him? ______

Question 19: Pages 92 and 93, 96 and 97, 166 and 167

This is the Monument to the Great Fire of London. You can climb up 311 steps inside to the top, 164 feet above the ground. It was designed by the architect Christopher Wren, who also designed the new St Paul’s Cathedral. In what year did the Great Fire of London take place? ______How many people died in the Great Fire? ______What was the name of the street where it started? ______Why did they have to build a new St Paul’s? What happened to the old one? ______Question 20: Use Google if you don’t know.

True or False? Write T or F in the green boxes.

The biggest diamond ever found was discovered in South Africa 1 in 1905. It is called the Cullinan Diamond, or The Star of Africa.

It was cut into a number of smaller gems.

The largest of these cut stones is set into the Sovereign’s Sceptre, one of Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

2 This picture was taken in London:

3 London’s main international airport is called Heathrow.

4 There is a statue of Queen Victoria set into a fountain outside the front gates of .

5 This is a picture of Admiral Nelson’s flagship, the HMS Victory, which is moored permanently on the :

This is not This is : 6 London Bridge:

The Great Fire of London destroyed over 13 000 7 buildings in just three days.

8 All the pipe majors of British military pipe bands wear dress uniform jackets that look something like this. This jacket is the style worn by he Pipe Major of the Scots Guards Pipes and Drums.

Checklist

Tick these off the first time you see each one:

a London bobby a Union Jack flag flying a red London bus a black London taxicab a bridge over the River Thames a red London post-box a Beefeater a Rolls-Royce a London Underground sign any equestrian statue a bascule bridge (look it up on page 169) any Gothic building (look it up on pages 94, 106 and 169)

Tick off these London attractions when you see them:

B C

A A

D E

D

F

G G H I

H

J

A The Tower of London G St Paul’s Cathedral B : the ‘Gherkin’ H C The London ‘Eye’ I The Globe Theatre D Westminster Abbey J 32 London Bridge Street: ‘ of E Buckingham Palace Glass’ F The Houses of Parliament

Which of these is a modern London policeman? Tick the box:

Here are some of the people you will meet at Madame Tussaud’s:

Who are these two people? You will definitely see them at Madame Tussaud’s ______

Two of the pictures are photographs of waxwork dummies. Can you decide which picture shows the real people? Tick the box.

Still at Madame Tussaud’s: Name these three people, and tick the box that shows the real living person in each case:

This is ______

This is ______

This is ______

This flag is called the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom. It flies over any palace when the Queen is in residence there, and on her car, ship or airplane.

When the Royal Standard is flying over Buckingham

Palace, it means that she is living there at the time.

Look out for it when you go past the Palace. This is what it will look like. Tick the box if you see it anywhere in London.

Everybody in London has one of these. You will see lots of them as you walk around.

What is it? What is it used for? ______

On which bank of the River Thames is the Globe theatre – north or south? ______

What is the nearest traffic bridge over the Thames? ______

Is there a closer bridge that you could use if you were crossing the river on foot? ______

What is the name of the bridge across the River Thames just in front of the Houses of Parliament? ______

About how wide is the River Thames at this bridge? (Find a small clue on page 186.) Estimate from sight: 100 feet 100 yards 500 feet almost 300 yards ½ a mile __

About how wide is the Hooch where your creek runs into it? ______

Hyde Park is a huge park in the middle of London. You will definitely pass it on your London bus tour.

Park facts:  Hyde Park covers 625 acres. That’s not much smaller than New York’s massive Central Park at 843 acres. It’s bigger than the whole COUNTRY of Monaco.  The river that runs through the park (it’s really an artificial lake) is called the Serpentine. What does that name tell you about its shape? ______ The Serpentine was used for some of the swimming events in the London 2012 Olympic Games.  An assortment of unusual sculptures are scattered around the park, including: Still Water, a massive horse head lapping up water; Jelly Baby Family, a family of giant Jelly Babies standing on top of a large black cube; and Vroom Vroom, a giant human hand pushing a toy car along the ground. Tick the boxes if you see any of them as you drive or walk past.

Only one of these pictures below shows Central Park, New York. The others were all taken in Hyde Park. Can you work out which one is Central Park? Tick the box.

What was your favourite waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s? ______Why? ______

What did you enjoy seeing or doing most in London? ______

Write down three really interesting ways in which London is different from Atlanta. ______

Answers and some interesting notes

Question 1: Buckingham Palace; essentially, the Queen and her immediate family.

Question 2: A B London ‘Eye’ C Thames

Question 3:

One of these famous London buildings is nick-named ‘The Gherkin’. Which one do you think it is? Can you name the others? Write all the names in the boxes.

Houses of Parliament Tower of London The Shard (of Glass) (Palace of Westminster)

Westminster Abbey

Royal Albert Hall The ‘Gherkin’ Ask Dad *

St Paul’s Cathedral

* The BT Tower, which is also known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and the Telecom Tower. I’m banking on you having come across it during your time with BT. It doesn’t seem to feature in the DK book. 10 Downing Street is the UK equivalent of The White House. It’s MUCH bigger than it looks from the front door view.

Question 4: A Tower Bridge B River Thames C The ‘spans’ or ‘leaves’ swing upward to create a space for ships to pass through. Also called a drawbridge; the word ‘bascule’ means (in French) a balance scale, or a seesaw with a counterbalance. The ‘leaves’ are sometimes called ‘bascules’. There are very good moving diagrams of different designs at Bascule bridge on Wikipedia.

Question 5: William Shakespeare. The name of any of the plays will do.

Question 6: They are known as Beefeaters. They guard the Tower of London. Full title: Yeomen Warders of Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign’s Body Guard of the Yeomen Guard Extraordinary. They are working, salaried ex-servicemen. They live at the Tower of London. Their job is to guard prisoners (!) and protect the Crown Jewels, and to conduct guided tours. The red uniform (with no shoulder cross-belt) is the full ceremonial dress uniform (known by them as ‘Tudor State Dress’). The blue uniform is their (Tower Warders) everyday un-dress uniform. The (The Queen’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard) wear an almost identical uniform, but with shoulder cross-belts. They are not based at the Tower, and they are not known as Beefeaters. Their duties are purely ceremonial.

Question 7: Hamleys is in ; you would use the Circus or Oxford Circus tube station.

Question 8: A Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson B British naval hero C The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, in which Nelson’s British fleet defeated the combined fleets of the French and Spanish navies, and put an end to Napoleon’s plans to invade Britain. Therefore, a decisive engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. Britain continued to hold international supremacy at sea until World War II.

Question 9: These are the real people. All the other pics show waxworks:

Question 10:

A What is a ‘patron saint’? A heavenly protector who looks after a nation or a place or a group of people. B Saint Andrew: Scotland Saint Patrick: Ireland Saint George: England C The patron saint of America is The Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.

Question 11: There are different ways of expressing city populations (these figures from Wikipedia 2015):

Greater London: 8, 673 000 New York: 8 550 000 Atlanta City: 463 800 Urban London: 9 787 000 NY Metro Statistical Area: 20 182 000 Atlanta Urban Area: 4 975 000 Metropolitan London: 13 879 000 NY Metropolitan Area: 23 723 000 Atlanta Metro Area: 5 710 000

I’m not sure exactly how the various areas are defined, but London is clearly a very big city, however the calculations are done.

Ireland Scotland Wales England

Question 12:

Life Guards: red tunics, Scots Guards: buttons in Welsh Guards: green- white plumes threes and-white plume

Irish Guards: blue Blues and Royals: blue Grenadier Guards: white plume, buttons in fours tunics, red plumes plume, single buttons

Question 13:

Who is this person? Queen Elizabeth II What is the occasion? Her coronation in 1953 What is a ‘sovereign’? In this context, a ruling king or queen; also, a former gold coin of the UK, no longer in circulation, which originally carried a majestic portrait of the monarch.

Question 14: This is , so named from the Latin word for ‘circle’ because it is a roundabout junction where a number of roads meet (five: Regent Street, , The Haymarket, Coventry Street and Glasshouse Street). The advertising signs include (among other trade names) Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.

Question 15:

This is where the Crown Jewels are kept.

Buckingham Palace This is where kings and queens of Westminster Abbey the United Kingdom are crowned.

The British Museum This is where the Queen lives in London.

This is the oldest museum in the world.

The Tower of London This is where the Changing of the The Houses of Queen’s Life Guard takes place. Parliament

This is where the British government meets and works.

Question 16: Wimbledon tennis Twickenham rugby ’s and The Oval cricket soccer

Question 17: Sherlock Holmes (and at certain times Doctor John Watson)

Question 18: Paddington darkest Peru Marmalade sandwiches ‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’

Question 19: 1666 Eight people Pudding Lane The old St Paul’s was destroyed in the Great Fire.

Question 20: Picture (2) was taken in New York, and (5) is a picture of HMS (on the Thames). All the others are true. For question 8, note the buttons in threes (see Question 12).

Checklist

Modern London policeman:

The first set of groups shows Prince William, second in line to the British throne, and his wife Princess Kate. The others are Cristiano Ronaldo, Usain Bolt and Han Solo / Harrison Ford.

These are the real people. All the other pics show waxworks:

London Underground map

The Globe Theatre is on the of the river. The nearest traffic bridge is Bridge:

A closer pedestrian bridge is the Millennium Bridge:

The bridge shown is . The river at that point is 827 feet wide (252 metres) = 276 yards, so the closest estimate would be almost 300 yards.

The Serpentine (meaning ‘snake-like’) is (or was originally intended by its designer to be) winding.

The Central Park picture is that shows the , recognisably a New York skyline, looking south- west from the south-west corner of the Park: extreme right, Trump International Hotel and Tower; the two tall buildings slightly left of and behind that, which look like the Twin Towers, are actually the Time Warner Buildings; the is just left of dead-centre; JW Marriott House Hotel is far left with a sign on the roof.

Time Warner Buildings Essex House Hearst Tower

Trump International