7b ALTERNATIVE ROUTE: ALONG BIRDCAGE WALK AND QUEEN ANNE’S GATE

On the map, QUEEN ANNES’S GATE. You will by passing alongside it shortly

Buses from VICTORIA ST

ST.JAMES’S PARK LU Sta

Wellington barracks

Wellington Barracks were designed by Sir Francis Smith and Philip Hardwick and opened in 1833.

Out of the 7 HOUSEHOLD REGIMENTS, the 5 FOOT Regiments of Guards, are based here. The Household Cavalry… remember?: HYDE PARK BARRACKS.

Three companies are based at the barracks, as well as all of the Foot Guards bands and the regimental headquarters.

Changing of the guard

10.30 am. The NEW GUARD forms here. At 10.55 the guards march towards BP (11.00am, changing)

11.35 am. The OLD GUARD ARRIVES here .The broke ranks after a very short time

Chapel

The Guards' Chapel was rebuilt in the 1960s after the original chapel was destroyed by a V-1 flying bomb in World War II

Museum

Between June 1944 and March 1945 London came under attack from Hitler's vengeance weapons : the V1 Flying Bomb, the first cruise missile and later the V2 rocket, the first ballistic missile. These killed 8938 people, seriously injured 25,000 others and destroyed tens of thousands of houses and other buildings.This web site has general information and time-line about the attacks and also detailed logs for parts of South London.

Now you are going to abandon the park side and explore this interesting part of westminster

Former London Transport HQ

Arch. CHARLES HOLDEN

Enjoy the design ofvtgec the building’s lobby and of the access to the ST.JAMES’S PARK LU STA. An the exteriors, as well. Contemporary sculptors were commissioned to create decorative works, on the theme of the four winds, to adorn the exterior. These included Eric Gill, Samuel Rabinovitch, Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein. It was Epstein’s sculpture of a naked father and son, Night and Day, that created some outrage when it was unveiled.

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Ministry of justice

Jeremy bentham

Founder of university college london

His model prison

Former mi6 hq

Former blue coat school

Buckingham gate

Caxton hall

William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.

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Christchurch gardens

Strutton ground

One of the London’s markets that never were…

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Former catholic building society

Former Grey School

David thomas

Fur-trader, surveyor and mapmaker. Born Dafydd ap Thomas at Marsham Street, London. He was chosen to be an apprentice to the Hudson Bay Company. Transferring to the North West Company in 1797 he embarked on many expeditions to map the country. He was the first European to navigate the Colombia river. Died in near obscurity in Montreal.

Fire station

Channel 4

Now the alternative ROUTE continues on: all the way queen anne’s gate

eight holland street

Founded by Tobias Vernon, Eight Holland Street is a gallery and design studio with bespoke services in art & furniture sourcing, curation and interior design. The third and newest flagship gallery and design studio opened in the summer of 2023, here at 34a Queen Anne's Gate.

The street includes some "outstanding" examples of Queen Anne and Georgian townhouses. The older buildings, many dating from the original laying-out of Queen Square in 1704-5, are found at the western end. Queen Anne's Gate is formed from two older streets, Park Street, to the eastern end and part of the Christ's Hospital estate, and Queen Square, to the western end and developed by the South Sea Company.^[2] Until 1873 the two were divided by a wall, with the Statue of Queen Anne (see below) set within it.^[3] In 1874 the wall was demolished, Park Street and Queen Square were renumbered and the whole was renamed Queen Anne's Gate.

DARK LONDON

300 years ago London, ad all European cities, lacked of public street lighting