Day Off Part Two
Oct. 2nd, 2009 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbernardiAs Maria was an official Clerkenwell and Islington Guide, she had a key to the Clerk's well room and we were able to have a close look and read up on the history.
After spending a while there we continued down Farringdon Lane, then turned right into Pear Tree Court, then right down Clerkenwell Close past the Peabody Trust Clerkenwell Estate, until we got to St James Church, we went through the gardens behind the church and out on the St James Walk (turning left). We continued on until reaching Kingsway Place (Sans Walk) which was in a previous life a middle school (now luxury flats), and before that the site of two prisons. We turned left to loop back to Clerkenwell Close where we turned right traveling up to Northampton Road, past the children's adventure ground under re-construction and then past two further gardens to Exmouth Market and Our Most Holy Redeemer of Clerkenwell, built in 1887 on the site of the Spa Fields Chappel. The church is London's only Italian basilica style church.
Then past the old Finsbury Town Hall, and the new Family History building to the park opposite the Sadlers Wells Theatre where the Lillian Baylis Tree is planted, this replaced the previous tree, planted earlier. Lillian Baylis was deemed to have saved the Sadlers Well theatre. At which point the guided tour ended and we went off our separate ways.
I made my way to King's Cross and thence to South Kensington, and the Science Museum, where I had booked to see the IMAX 3D film of the start of the putting together the International Space Station.
End of part two.
After spending a while there we continued down Farringdon Lane, then turned right into Pear Tree Court, then right down Clerkenwell Close past the Peabody Trust Clerkenwell Estate, until we got to St James Church, we went through the gardens behind the church and out on the St James Walk (turning left). We continued on until reaching Kingsway Place (Sans Walk) which was in a previous life a middle school (now luxury flats), and before that the site of two prisons. We turned left to loop back to Clerkenwell Close where we turned right traveling up to Northampton Road, past the children's adventure ground under re-construction and then past two further gardens to Exmouth Market and Our Most Holy Redeemer of Clerkenwell, built in 1887 on the site of the Spa Fields Chappel. The church is London's only Italian basilica style church.
Then past the old Finsbury Town Hall, and the new Family History building to the park opposite the Sadlers Wells Theatre where the Lillian Baylis Tree is planted, this replaced the previous tree, planted earlier. Lillian Baylis was deemed to have saved the Sadlers Well theatre. At which point the guided tour ended and we went off our separate ways.
I made my way to King's Cross and thence to South Kensington, and the Science Museum, where I had booked to see the IMAX 3D film of the start of the putting together the International Space Station.
End of part two.