Link to the Show / Show NotesLondon's greatest walk - part 2.
We start near Big Ben, leaving Westminster Underground (Jubilee, Circle and
District lines - zone 1) via exit 4. As we look towards Parliament Square, we
hear Big Ben strike 11 o'clock on a bright, sunny but cold day. Our walk starts
at the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square and
proceeds down Whitehall towards the Cenotaph. From here you can go a little
further and see Downing Street.
After going down between the Foreign Office and the Treasury, we pass the
Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum and into St James's Park. Then up Cockpit
steps into a little known Queen Anne street, where almost every house is
connected with politicians in the past, such as Lord Palmerston and Viscount
Grey.
Back then into St James's and across the water where we get a fine view of
Buckingham Palace to the West and the London Eye to the East, framing government
buildings like a giant halo.
We then pass St James's Palace and Clarence House before entering Green Park.
Here we see the memorial to the Canadian dead from the world wars, and then a
new gate opened in 2002 and dedicated to those who lost their lives fighting in
both world wars from the Indian sub-continent, Nepal, and the Caribbean.
We end at Hyde Park Corner, crossing to the Wellington Arch and Hyde Park
Corner Underground (Piccadilly Line zone 1) on what must be one of the only
horse-crossings to be found anywhere in the world.
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