Shooting mans day out in London?
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Woodsmoke
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Aye, and you can tell him Stu is still waiting for him to return his f*cking email, and all
I haven’t been there since before the first lockdown but found that my general routine was to have a bit of a wander around, get horrified by so many people & the price of everything, retreat to a pub with a newspaper & be delighted to get back home, feeling more & more like Crocodile Dundee each time
If coming by train to St Pancras or Euston have a Thai curry at The Dolphin public house across the road from both. Or a coffee in the open to the public coffee area of the Francis Crick Institute between the two.
darkbaldrick
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Not a London person but found the Tower of London good and some of the guns on exhibit interesting.
Pkiernan
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Be sure to bring Fenton the dog....
Cumbrian 1
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Imperial War Museum has been revamped and is now terrible, hardly a gun on display all the cool items in the atrium have gone, it is pitch black and now relies heavily on interactive screen desks which there is always a crowd and tv footage.
Imperial woke museum is apt, RAF museum in Hendon is good as is the Tower of London
Imperial woke museum is apt, RAF museum in Hendon is good as is the Tower of London
Stalker62
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I worked in London for over 36 years (often close to Hendon), it took me 35 years before I stuck my head in the RAF museum.
What a treat.
Standing under a Lancaster bomber, was more emotional that I can put into words.
Woodsmoke
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I once had the huge privilege to marshal the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for an airshow at Manston. The Spitfire and Hurricane were incredible enough, but the Lancaster gave me shivers. I'll never, ever forget it
Magnificent 7
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Shame I'm on nights down here I'd of met you for a pint and a bit of craic. nothing worse than being somewhere with nowt to do.mind you always something to do in London like already said borough market worth a look I went the other week for the first time although I've bee down here on and off for 20 years.
Stalker62
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Only once in my life, by happenstance, I was underneath a Spitfire that roared overhead.
The sound of that engine (inexplicably), almost brought me to tears.
Magnificent 7
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Must call in I pass it daily on the train going into the city and coming home.
Stalker62
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Magnificent 7
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Every third week my shifts are bad don't finish till 11pm Friday night and have to be back 6am Monday so I normally stop down.I normally try get a bit of stalking down here or some other gun related fun.But I'll perhaps make a day of museums instead probably cheaper lol.Bunk off for half the day.
Do not wait 35 years to do it.
Woodsmoke
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I was the same. I think it's because it's just so evocative of the war, and the unimaginable sacrifices that were made on all counts that it evokes a raw, almost visceral emotional response in anyone with the faintest trace of empathy. Standing almost under the nose of that aircraft with four Merlins barely fifty feet away was an incredible experience
Magnificent 7
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I was lucky enough to come out of a tunnel at cross rail a few years ago and see the full battle of Britain parade go over the top of us. Following the Thames was am amazing site spitfires and hurricanes in formation a sight to remember.And a massive case of being in the right place at the right time.The lancaster I've seen quite a bit coming over our area I suppose were lucky that way.
Magnificent 7
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Talking of lancasters I once worked with an old chap from Lincoln way he was deaf I think he had polio as a kid.He told me a tale of when they were children.The lancasters were during the war based near him and as a kid him and his pals use to go and look at them ect.Being the good old days the security wouldnt of been like it is now (they didn't need it then folk had respect).Anyhow long story short he and his pal one night were playing in a lancaster and all of a sudden a car appeared one of the mechanics and a pilot came back. They all like kids would do hid in the plane they all sat there quiet whilst the pilot and the mechanic started her up taxi,d down the run way and took off.Flew about then just as they were about to land the mechanic looked over his shoulder and clocked the kids.They landed and the kids hit the runway perhaps faster than the lancaster.His words were Steve I'm deaf I've always been deaf but I could here those rolls royces that day and I still can he has hearing aids now well perhaps he has gone I hope not.
I used to visit O'Reilly's in York Street. For game fishing tackle. I wonder of he is still alive and the shop still there?
Stalker62
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O'Reilly's Fishing
67A York Street, London
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Girl_with_a_gun
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Scottish Malt Whisky Society in Farringdon (19 Greville St) if you're a member
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