Jubilee Greenway

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10/12/2008#51.498710#-0.144303#The Royal Mews#The Royal Mews is in Buckingham Palace Road, and is part of the grounds of Buckingham Palace. This houses the stables, carriages, coaches, motor cars and horses used by the Royal Family as well as some of the community of staff and their families. It is one of the finest working stables in existence, and is regularly open to the public. The Royal Mews was built in 1825 and also comprises an earlier riding school, built in 1764, soon after George III bought Buckingham House. In the Royal Mews there is a permanent display of State vehicles. These include the magnificent Gold State Coach used for every Coronation since that of George IV in 1821, and for the 1977 and 2002 Jubilees of The Queen. Other magnificent carriages used for Royal and State occasions, State Visits, weddings and for the State Opening of Parliament, include the Irish State Coach, Queen Alexandra's State Coach, the 1902 State Landau, the Australian State Coach, and the Glass Coach. There are various state motor vehicles, one of which is usually on display. Horses are stabled here during the working part of the year, spending the holiday periods out to grass at Hampton Court.#|10/12/2008#51.501423# -0.142039#The Queen's Gallery#The Queen's Gallery is in Buckingham Palace Road, and is part of Buckingham Palace. It was created on the site of the bombed chapel of the Palace in the early 1960s, and is a permanent space dedicated to changing exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection. Regular exhibitions are held there, of works of art, paintings and drawings, furniture and jewellery, all from the Royal Collection. The Gallery was completely overhauled and refurbished for The Queen's Golden Jubilee and reopened by The Queen on 22 May 2002. One feature is the room where objects can be viewed on screen, from all different angles.#|10/12/2008#51.501397#-0.141835#Buckingham Palace#Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of Her Majesty The Queen. Here she conducts her business when in London, receiving ministers, and the Prime Minister on his weekly audience. Here she entertains overseas Heads of State, and holds investitures and garden parties, and theme day receptions. The Palace is as much an office as a private home, and many who see it for the first time will be surprised to learn that it is hollow, being built around a large inner courtyard. Buckingham House was built in 1702 for the Duke of Buckingham and bought by George III for - 21,000, so that he and Queen Caroline could live apart from the Court at St Jame's Palace. It was transformed into a palace by the architect, John Nash, under elaborate and expensive guidelines established by George IV. He told Nash that he liked it so much that he would hold his courts there. William IV detested the place. He tried to get the Government to take it on as a replacement for the Houses of Parliament or a barracks. The Palace came to life under Queen Victoria, who moved there on her Accession, pointedly leaving her mother, the Duchess of Kent, behind at Kensington Palace. She had it enlarged by the architect, Edward Blore, to accommodate her growing family, and to make it suitable for State Visits. He added the East Front to the Palace. One of these rooms on the corner (the Constitution Hill side) is the Chinese Dining Room, the decor of which comes from the Brighton Pavilion, former residence of George IV, one of the Hanoverian monarchs, of whom Queen Victoria rather disapproved. (This room is sometimes used for Committee meetings, and on 8 September 2008, HRH The Duke of Gloucester attended a committee meeting for the Jubilee Greenway there). After the death of the Prince Consort in 1861 Queen Victoria was a rare visitor to the Palace, but it came to life again under Edward VII, who entertained there lavishly, and introduced electricity. George V caused the East Front to be faced with Portland Stone and added new gates. The Mall was also redesigned to incorporate the Queen Victoria Memorial, which was officially opened in 1911. Edward VIII only used the Palace as an office during his brief reign, but George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses made it their home. During the Second World War, Buckingham Palace became a focal point in the life of the capital, with the knowledge that the King was in London with his people. The Palace was bombed nine times. The Queen has lived at Buckingham Palace since 1952. During her reign, the Palace has again been the focal point on many important occasions, and The Queen and her family have appeared on the balcony following the Coronation, royal weddings, Jubilees, after Trooping the Colour and at other times. The Royal Standard flies over the Palace when The Queen is in residence, and since 1998, the Union Flag when she is not. During the Golden Jubilee, The Queen held a Pop Concert and a classical music concert in the gardens of the Palace. The Palace is to be floodlit every night for the rest of The Queen's reign. The State rooms of Buckingham Palace are now open every summer, when The Queen is not in residence, and each year there is a special exhibition. These have included gifts given to The Queen, a celebration of the Coronation, The Queen's dresses, and in the summer of 2008 a reconstruction of a State Banquet.#|10/12/2008#51.502485#-0.149410#Memorial Gates#The Memorial Gates are four stone columns made in Portland Stone, each topped by a bronze urn, and with the names of those Commonwealth countries that gave their servicemen to help Britain in the Second World War - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Africa, Caribbean and the Kingdom of Nepal - carved into the sides. The Gates complement Wellington Arch seen beyond, and are a fine recent addition to Constitution Hill. They were placed there by the Memorial Gates Trust, helped by the Millennium Commission, which raised the necessary money to honour the 5 million volunteers who gave their lives supporting Britain in the First and Second World Wars. Not only did men and women die, but the countries honoured gave raw materials and money to the Allied cause. Her Majesty The Queen officially opened the Memorial Gates in November 2002.#|10/12/2008#51.502759#-0.152746#Hyde Park Corner#Hyde Park Corner is the intersection between Park Lane, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Grosvenor Place and Constitution Hill. This was formerly a major roundabout, and the traffic passed round it, but in 1958 the Park Lane Improvement Bill was introduced in the House of Commons, as a result of which, on 17 October 1962, the underpass was opened, allowing traffic from Knightsbridge to Piccadilly and back to pass underneath it. It was soon judged to be working well. The opening of the underpass worried Nigel Birch, Conservative Member of Parliament for Flint West. He was concerned that the then Minister of Transport might encroach further on the valuable amenity of the Royal Parks land. In the House of Commons he observed that the Park Lane Improvement Scheme involved - the work done at Marble Arch, the removal from the Park of the East Carriage Road, the murder of Hamilton Gardens and the work at Hyde Park Corner, including the underpass, and the cutting off at the ends both of Green Park and Buckingham Palace Gardens and also the removal of 50 great trees and 100 smaller ones. Birch much regretted the loss of 21 - acres of land from Hyde Park and Green Park. Birch was afraid that the Minister of Transport was going to have buses roaring along South Carriage Road in Hyde Park, past the best flower beds in London, depositing their bouquet of scent upon the horses and riders in the Row as they went. Fortunately this did not happen. Today Hyde Park Corner is a traffic island, largely covered by grass. On it stand various memorials, including Wellington Arch. The ceremonial triple gates to Hyde Park, which serve as the Grand Entrance to Hyde Park, now known as the Hyde Park Corner Screen were designed by Decimus Burton in 1824/5, and have a martial frieze around the centre top (designed by John Henning) showing Grecian soldiers on horseback and priests processing. Next to the gates stands Apsley House and beyond them, inside the Park and adjoining Park Lane are the gates to mark Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 90th birthday, unveiled in the Queen Mother's presence in 1993.#|10/12/2008#51.502418#-0.154141#Wellington Arch#Wellington Arch, at Hyde park Corner, was originally commissioned by George IV as a magnificent outer entrance to Buckingham Palace. Originally known as Constitution Arch or the Green Park Arch, it was commissioned by George IV at the same time as Marble Arch, to commemorate Britain's victories in the Napoleonic wars. Both arches were to be adornments to Buckingham Palace - Marble Arch standing outside the Palace (and later moved to its present site) and Wellington Arch standing opposite Apsley House, the London home of the Duke of Wellington (at right angles to its present position). Wellington Arch was designed by the architect, Decimus Burton and built between 1826 and 1830. It was originally destined to be much grander but George IV overspent when doing up Buckingham Palace. In 1846 it was decided that the arch should be topped by a statue of the Duke of Wellington, victor of Waterloo. An enormous statue, designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, was placed above the arch, but was the cause of great controversy. In 1882-3 the arch was moved to its present position, and in due course the Duke's statue moved to Aldershot. In 1912 an enormous bronze depicting the angel peace descending on the chariot of war (designed by Adrian Jones) was placed above the arch. It is the largest bronze sculpture in Europe. Wellington Arch, until 1992 a small police station, is now a museum with three floors of exhibits, telling its history. It also has a fine viewing gallery. Most days the Horse Guards pass through it on their way to Knightsbidge Barracks in Hyde Park, and The Queen drives through the centre of it rather than round Hyde Park Corner. Since 1999 the arch has been owned by English Heritage. #|17/02/2009#51.504789#-0.166211#Serpentine# The Serpentine (also known as the Serpentine River) is a 28 acre (11 ha) recreational lake in Hyde Park, London, England, created in 1730. #|17/02/2009#51.505278#-0.188333#Kensington Palace# Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Today it is the official residence of The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; the Duke and Duchess of Kent; and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.#

10/12/2008#cliffeassociates#51.511859#-0.174580#My Walk#Noticed something quite unusual at Lancaster gate see my video#