William's World!: Day Trip To London

Today we went on the train for a day trip to London.

Here's my train from Nuneaton to London.

We took the underground to Oxford Circus and walked to BBC Broadcasting House.
This is the BBC's London headquarters since moving out of BBC Television Centre in White City, London a couple of years ago.
(I look like a reporter......."William Newton, BBC News, Broadcasting House, London")

Will.i.am (Yes Really!)

This is the clock and globe used in the 1980's BBC 1 ident.

Looking directly over the central newsroom. (this is the biggest newsroom in Europe)

Can you see into the news studio on the right?

The One Show Studio.

Mummy and me playing table tennis.
(The One Show studio is behind the glass windows on the right)

In the Apple store Regent Street. We also went to Hamley's across the road.

We walked down to Leicester Square for lunch.

Five Guys are the best!

We then went for a look around Covent Garden before boarding a South Eastern train from Charring Cross to Lewisham. At Lewisham we changed onto the Docklands Light Railway to Cutty Sark station, Greenwich.

Going by train over the River Thames on Hungerford Bridge.

Pretending to be a sailor in front of the newly refurbished Cutty Sark Tea Clipper.

The Cutty Sark.

At Greenwich, we walked up the big hill to The Royal Observatory.

What a great view of the City!

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known as the location of the prime meridian. It is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the Thames.

Me Standing on the world-famous Greenwich Meridian Line, which represents the Prime Meridian of the World – Longitude 0º. As you can see I have 1 foot in the western hemisphere and 1 foot in the eastern

Every place on Earth is measured in terms of its distance east or west from the Greenwich Meridian. The line itself divides the eastern and western hemispheres of the Earth, just as the Equator divides the northern and southern

Greenwich clock with standard measurements.Standard lengths on the wall – 1 yard (3 feet), 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches (1/2 foot), and 3 inches. The separation of the inside faces of the marks is exact at an ambient temperature of 60 °F (16 °C) and a rod of the correct measure, resting on the pins, will fit snugly between them
(This clock is strange because it is an analogue 24 hour clock!)

The bright red Time Ball on top of Flamsteed House is one of the world's earliest public time signals. At the top of each hour the ball drops and sailors on the river Thames could see this and set there ships clocks accordingly.