Saturday 8 September 2018

Some More Sights of London

We passed a few interesting things while on the way to other places over the week. One of them was this church spire:


It's St George's in Bloomsbury, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, the sixth and last church that he designed and built in London. The spire appears in the background of Hogarth's famous picture Gin Lane. The lion and the unicorn were added in 2006, as the originals had been lost.
Looking at their website, I see that the memorial service for Emily Davison was held here in 1913. She was the suffragette who threw herself under the King's horse during the Derby. The horse, Anmer, completed the race without his jockey, who was also injured in the fall. Emily Davison died in hospital two days later without regaining consciousness.
The basement of the church houses the Museum of Comedy, and the church itself holds services in Korean.

And then there was this mews, down the hill from the Horniman Museum:


It's called Havelock Walk. The houses were decorated like this all the way along the row, and there's also an artist's studio.

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