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You're right, the HP tour has to count as one of the best value 'tourist' attractions in London. High point was definitely the actual chamber, and trying to sneak a quick sit on bench while our guide wasn't looking (totally failed in this regard). Worth going even if you haven't got the excuse of taking a visitor with you!
Knit Nurse | 04.11.05 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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Slight pedantry here - apologies. But the trial was of King Charles I, not James I.
Westminster Hall is an amazing building. To think that we tried a king in there, let monarchs lay in state, etc. etc. But also used the building as the Royal Courts of Justice until the building on the Strand was put up. And Pepys talks about it as a market and grand coffee house in his time. I wish it was still a market - would make it much easier for my shopping than havin to stroll up Victoria St at lunchtime.
Excellent post, DG.
long distance | 04.11.05 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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So just out of interest does anyone know why we celebrate on the 5th of November is the plot was actually foiled on the 4th?
Katherine | 04.11.05 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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Frankly, Fawkes and his co-conspiritors were the only people to go to parliament with a sensible policy - and they got killed for it.
That's why politics in this country is in such a mess. There's no performance-related bonus system.
Rob | Homepage | 04.11.05 - 1:51 p.m. | #
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Sir, I do thanke thee. Verily thou knowst how to bryng my storye to lyfe after four hundred yeeres and reeders may reap much good reward and gaine some knowledge through your journall. You are a gentelman of good woorth and good judgement.
Guido | Homepage | 04.11.05 - 6:21 p.m. | #
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DG - is it a hassle getting on a tour of parliament? I know you have to write to your MP, but after all the letters I write him he might not be too chuffed to give me an entry pass...
sarah | Homepage | 04.11.05 - 8:39 p.m. | #
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sarah - it's no hassle getting on a tour at all. I just turned up early one Saturday morning, bought a £7 ticket from the wooden shed over the road, and was inside within fifteen minutes. One of London's best (summer) secrets, I suspect.
long distance - oops, you're right. I've beheaded the right king now.
Katherine - we celebrate on the 5th because that's the day the gunpowder was due to explode, during the State Opening of Parliament.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.11.05 - 9:08 p.m. | #
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My thought for the day
What was Guido Fawkes' handle?
pop artist | 04.11.05 - 10:37 p.m. | #
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I sat in the visitor's gallery in the Summer of 1979 when Margaret Thatcher debated the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe question. I got in with a visitor's pass obtained through a foreign embassy. If you carry a foreign passport, check your embassy whether they have any spare invites lying around. It gets you past the queues quicker.
Uroskin | Homepage | 05.11.05 - 1:15 a.m. | #
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