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Path: Photos > Photos > English Heritage Snapshots > English Heritage: London > EH London Sites
Tags: UK  EnglishHeritage  2022

EH London Sites

 

(vero;2022-Jan-31)

London in EH's world means monuments located in London and within the M25 belt.

04.02.2022: Wellington Arch, London. This arch is located at Hyde Park Corner on an island in the middle of traffic. It was erected in 1828 and after teething problems eventually ended up as a monument honouring Waterloo's hero, the Duke of Wellington. Its current location is not the original one though: it used to face the Hyde Park Screen and had to be moved a few hundred metres to ease the flow of an already heavy traffic in 1885.
05.02.2022: Eltham Palace, detail of the marquetry adorning the walls of the entrance hall. We have a dedicated photo gallery for this unusual Art-Déco mansion cum medieval great hall. 06.02.2022: Jewel Tower, London. It is easy to oversee the Jewel Tower in Westminster. It was built in the 1360s within the private palace of Edward III to store the royal treasures, with direct access to the river in order to move the goods easily (imagine the King needing his tapestries or silverware moved to his summer residence, easy to do via the river). It became the records office of the House of Lords at the end of the 15th century until 1864 when the records were removed to Victoria Tower in the new palace of Westminster. The tower was then turned into a testing facility, determining the value of weights and measures and holding historic standards of weight, volume and dimension for Britain and its oversea empire. 23.10.2022: Ranger's House in Greenwich. This house is home to the Wernher Collection which was assembled by the German-born diamond magnate Sir Julius Wernher in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes about 700 works of art, from ornate medieval jewellery, Italian ceramics and bronze sculptures to Renaissance paintings, 18th-century French furniture and British portraits. Click here to see some highlights of the collection (photography was not allowed inside). We were a bit disappointed by the visit: we found the presentation a bit haphazard and not always very well lit. Photo © Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. 23.10.2022: Apsley House in London, Hyde Park Corner. This is the house of the Duke of Wellington of Waterloo fame, the one who brought Napoléon down on his knees. The upper floor is still used by the family but the lower floors have been transformed into a museum where one can admire an impressive collection of paintings as well as all kind of memorabilia linked to Waterloo and Napoléon. An equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington is facing the house. Photography was not allowed in the house, click on this link for some highlights of the Wellington's Collection. Photo © Carcharoth (Commons), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.


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