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The Public Record Office museum is certainly not closed. It now exists as "The Keeper's Gallery" at the National Archives at Kew having moved when the Chancery Lane site closed. Admission remains free of charge.
Commentator | 14.07.21 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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The Cuming Museum will hopefully re-open on a new site nearby in the next few years.
Did most of the artefacts at the original London Museum move to the Museum of London?
kerspatula | 14.07.21 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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The Hunterian Museum is temporarily closed while the Royal College of Surgeons' new home is constructed (on the same site, behind the old facade). The museum will reopen in 2022.
Alan S | 14.07.21 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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To put these prices in perspective, £1 in 1938 is equivalent to about £70 now, according the the Bank of England's inflation calculator.
A lot of the major price rises came after 1970. If admission to Kew Gardens was now equivalent to the 1971 price, it would be about 15p, less than 1% of the present price.
Tony Woolf | 14.07.21 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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At St Paul's Cathedral was there no entry fee for the Whispering Gallery? I remember being taken there in the 1960s and queuing to climb the very long flight of stairs.
dg writes: updated, thanks.
In your first list I think that Ken Wood is spelt Kenwood.
dg writes: I've used the 1938 gazetteer spelling.
Sara | 14.07.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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It's the Home Office Industrial Museum I'll miss most ...
Sarah | Homepage | 14.07.21 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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I think Ken Wood is the name of the wood where the house was built. The house's name has become Kenwood House today. From DG's comment this change happened at some point in the 20th century.
According to Wikipedia the wood is still spelled as Ken Wood.
Martin | 14.07.21 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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I believe the Imperial Institute was replaced by The Commonwealth Institute in a new building, itself now closed.
mikeH | 14.07.21 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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The Tower of London in the mid fifties to sixties was free to explore on a Sunday,except for the iniquitous charge of a tanner to see the crown jewels. I and my brothers often went there-it was within walking distance,as was a lot of the City- but didn't waste pocket money on buses or entry fees.
I did get to see the jewels, I was in my sixties by then. 😉
Jo W | 14.07.21 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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I'd forgotten the Royal United Services [plural, please, confirmed by the hyperlinked item] Museum. but now I remember the story of Charles I's execution, and - I think - Marengo's skeleton, Chicken Marengo being one of my mother's favourite recipes.
I must be getting old...
Betterbee | 14.07.21 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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Having just found the 1914 catalogue of the RUSM, I unreservedly withdraw my earlier "correction" and apologise - but my memory still thinks that way!
Betterbee | 14.07.21 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Wasn't the London Museum in Kensington Palace at some time? I have a vague memory of going there, probably in the early 70s.
Leuconoe | 14.07.21 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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The Commonwealth Institute is now closed, but the building has become the Design Museum. That had some financial difficulties a couple of years back, so let’s hope it doesn’t close too.
Baldassaro | 14.07.21 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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The London Museum and the Guildhall Museum were combined after WW2 as the Museum of London (and moved 1976 to current site) - as per MoL website
ML | 14.07.21 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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I'm surprised there isn't viewing platform on the Duke of York Column today. Mind you, 6d then or about £30 now, does seem a bit steep.
Johnny Topaz | 14.07.21 - 12:35 p.m. | #
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IMHO the more expensive a museum's entry fee is the more reliant it is on tourists or foreigners. But even they can get a better bargain if they choose to become English Heritage members or (for some attractions) buy a package ticket.
I think certain freebies (e.g. British Museum) are already good enough to eat up an average tourist's entire stay, that one might as well save the money for more valuable stuff. My most valuable memory of my 2015 visit was no doubt British Museum (and a genuine experience on the D78).
Patrickov | 14.07.21 - 12:56 p.m. | #
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Westminster Cathedral lift now costs £6.
In Hitchcocks' Foreign Correspondent (@1:07:35), the price was 6d. So he got it wrong!
P S BAKER | 14.07.21 - 2:54 p.m. | #
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One or two wobbly inflation calculations here in the comments. The BoE inflation calculator gives £25 in 1938 as £1720 today - so if you move the decimal point three to the left (6d is 2.5p) then 6d in 1938 comes in at £1.72 today. Things are a *lot* more expensive!
mark addy | 14.07.21 - 6:17 p.m. | #
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Go to the church service at The Tower on Sunday morning, then you can wander around after you have been blessed for free.
scrumpy | 14.07.21 - 7:54 p.m. | #
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Scrumpy - the Chapels Royal websire says: "please note that free entry to attend a service does not entitle you to visit the rest of the Tower. You will be issued with a card which grants you temporary access to the Tower for the duration of the service plus 15 minutes, after which you are required to leave the Tower."
Not sure 15 minutes in the Tower grounds is worth having to sit through a church service for!
James Matcham | 15.07.21 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Anyone with a Tower Hamlets Idea Store/library card (which in this instance is serving as proof of TH residence) can visit the Tower of London for £1.
Flann | 15.07.21 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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Some of these 'still free' ones require a certain amount of stamina to get past the 'suggested donation' desk - such as the Natural History and Science museums.
Peter | 15.07.21 - 10:24 p.m. | #
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