This is a big day, but I did it in 2024! Just thought I'd offer it here.
- Charles Dickens Museum (has tea room)
- British Museum (Sutton Hoo/Beowulf-era find rm. 41, Rosetta Stone; has café/restaurant)
- Walking up West side of Russell Square -- green Cabman’s Shelter (sells snacks) on NW corner, same corner has TS Eliot plaque (bldg was his place of work, brown plaque on recessed white addition) → L on Bedford Way to . . .
- On Tavistock Square, Virginia Woolf plaque by Hotel Tavistock sign, Virgina Woolf bust in park in corner; cross through park (Ghandi statue in middle); NW corner, cross street Charles Dickens plaque on BMA house near entrance
- Woburn Walk w/#5 Casa Jardin (rectangular brown plaque) was home to WmButlerYeats’ Mondays poetry gatherings w/TSElliot, café 8-4; take Duke’s Road north to Euston to . . .
- British Library (Shakespeare, Austen, etc.); walk toward King's Cross, behind which is . . .
- St.Pancras Old Church gardens: Tombstone of Mary Wollstonecraft, site of Mary Shelley meeting Percy Shelley (also monument/tombstone of John Soane -- the design of which inspired red phone boxes)
- Words on the Water book barge (store) behind Kings Cross 12-7pm
- Platform 9 3/4 (Harry Potter) inside King's Cross train station
Posted by
SE Washington, USA
469 posts
Thanks for sharing. Approximately how much time (aside from taking tea) should one budget for seeing the museum (recognizing it can be very personal)?
Posted by
Yorkshire
1338 posts
The Sutton Hoo treasure is breathtaking in its beauty, astonishing in its complexity, mind blowing in its age, miraculous in its survival and well worth ten to fifteen minutes of your time.