This fascinating museum is located in an old Georgian sugar warehouse, and tells the 2,000 year story of London’s river, port and people. It also houses the archives of the Port of London Authority.
The largest dome in the world and the largest single-roofed structure in the world was built amid some controversy for £789 million just in time for the millennium, completed in June 1999.
This is the tallest building in Britain (the HSBC building and Citigroup Tower are number 2 and 3 and are both nearby). It has 50 floors and is 235 metres high.
Surely a candidate for most impressive London Underground station.
The gardens are really attractive with lots of large bright flowers. Playground looks as thought the under 8's would appreciate it and there is a lot of grass to sit around on and just laze.
These gardens were created on the site of a scrap metal yard in 1895, both to improve the view from, and the view of, Sir Christopher Wren’s Royal Naval Hospital across the river.
This 370 metre long tunnel under the river opened in 1902, to ease congestion on the ferries that carried workers from south London to the bustling docks on the Isle of Dogs.
One of the biggest objects in the maritime museum is Prince Frederick’s lavish state barge, built in 1732 for the son of George II, and used by royalty to travel along the Thames until 1849.
In 1616 Anne of Denmark, wife of James I, commissioned Inigo Jones to build the Queen’s House, the first fully Classical building in England. The house now forms part of the National Maritime Museum.
The next best views of London after Primrose Hill - worth a trek to the top by the Royal Observatory for the breathtaking panorama.
The home of Greenwich Mean Time, and therefore where each day and year commences. The Observatory’s original function was to improve sea navigation through knowledge of astronomy.
This is named after a church and hospital that once stood here, but in 1827 both were demolished and 11,000 made homeless to make way for docks designed by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford.
