Sights of London

Great day out with John Beynon in London including a trip down river to Greenwich for lunch just round the corner from the Cutty Sark, one of the last tea clippers to be built (1869) and one of the fastest. It's the largest nautical feature at Greenwich towering over the dock there.  Unsurprisingly we’ve been taking to the river in London over the hot spell. Here en route from Hampton Court to Richmond on a good old boat ‘Princess Freda’ built almost a century ago. ‘Freda’ plies her route day by day over the summer through Teddington Lock to Richmond and back. A familiar sight to regular attenders at St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield Thursday fantastic free lunchtime concerts. It’s the gothic tomb of Prior Rahere 1405 standing in contrast to the Romanesque main body of the church. The kneeling figures flanking his body hold open Bibles bearing cheering words from Isaiah 51: God ‘will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the