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The Horniman is one of my favourite museums: my day job takes me there and we often have lunch out in the rose gardens. Did you see the voodun shrines? If you like the retro/provincial museum thing you should also check out the Pitt Rivers in Oxford (you enter it via the Natural History): three galleries around a large central well with the objects organised by function rather than region. |
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I had the worst hot drink ever at the Horniman museum, I dont even know if it was tea or coffee although I ordered coffee. Really really bad. |
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The other historical bit of Lewisham I remember is a church in Deptford (St. Nicholas?) where you can (barely) make out a memorial on the wall of the churchyard denoting that Christopher Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl nearby and buried there. The churchyard had these lovely stone skull and crossbones over the entranceway, as well. It's buried in amongst warehouses and council estates - not what you'd expect to see there. There's also a particularly good pub called the Dog & Bell just down the road from it.  Deptford was a bit of a dump, but I miss living somewhere with character. |
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I love that walrus. Apparently when the taxidermists received the walrus skin they'd never seen a walrus before, or even a picture of one, and so they didn't know that its skin was meant to have folds in it. Which is why the walrus looks somewhat over-large, and somewhat over-inflated, like a giant, tusked balloon. Brilliant. |
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Ths is good stuff. My hubby was born and bred in Lewisham Borough, and has spent most of his adult life trying to stay away from it. My impression of it always been that it was grey, downtrodden and full of pound shops, without any of the vitality of many other relatively poor areas of London (e.g. Brixton). Good to find out that there is more to it than that. |
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I had no idea the Greenwich border went over the Creek. Ah well, it's fodder if Dg ever gets around to Greenwich, I guess. |
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I'm genuinely shocked. There's somewhere in London - the Horniman Museum - that I've been to, several years before dg. Me never having lived in the capital, that's quite a surprise. |
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