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Brown's at St. Martins Lane. I have no problems with a gift card. LOL!

Those buildings are so beautiful, pity the street itself is such a mess.

And then.... I saw St. Martin in the Fields.

I wanted to go there, even though son wanted to drive outside London before dark.

50 years ago dad and I went there and enjoyed some music and the quiet, as it was very crowded in London that day.

I hope they've kept the Victorian interior.

Come on...time enough to have a good look around at Trafalgar Square.....

Such a pity they are building in between... Looks like what we call: a square box.

In the past they had Atlas carry the world.

But nowadays they need more shoulders to carry the globe.

Royal lions?

Or Dutch lions?

Certainly no native inhabitants of England.

Who sat model for her?

What was she thinking?

Did she know she would end up high in the sky, watching over Covent Garden.....

...beside shamelessly naked young men dressed in.... fruit!

The Coliseum Theatre opened december 24 1904.

It was designed by Mark Matcham and was intended to become the largest and finest music hall of Europe. Well, it certainly was the first to have a lift and the first to have a triple revolve installed on stage.

After the Sadler's Well Opera Company moved in the building in 1968 the name was changed in 1974 into the English National Opera.

At present it's used for opera and is the London home for the English National Ballet.

I love the building, but not the lights at the globe that spread the name during the dark hours.

Edith Cavell Monument.

Someone bumped against me, so I only have a photo of the side of the monument.

In front the Norfolk Nurse Edith Cavell is portrayed.

She was matron in Brussels at the Berkendael Medical Institute at the beginning of WW1.

She gave medical care to both sides of the war, and in the meantime supported about 200 allied soldiers to escape from the Germans.

In august 1915 she was accused of treason and found guilty. The Germans shot her st october 12th 1915 and her remains were buried in Belgium.

The British used her story to show the lack of morals and humanity of the Germans.

After the war her remains were brought to England and she was given a state funeral at Westminster Abbey. Her remains were laid to rest at Norwich.

As child and grandchild of people who were in the resistance and supported aircrews escape from the Germans this memorial holds special significance to me. Especially at Remembrance Day.

We were welcomed in St. Martin in the Fields by a sing training for a girl with a beautiful voice.

And by the window, installed during the renewal of the church between 2006 and 2008, created by the Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary.

St. Martin in the Fields is the patron church for soldiers and pacifists.

As there were people in the church we didn't want to disturb them and walking to the other memorials.

'At the going down of the sun

and in the morning -

we will remember them.'

In my mind Trafalgar Square was huge....

Always loved the top of the Museum...

Yes, girly girl, you've been at places of significance for ballet dancers and your family.

You'll be back!!

The last glow of the sun on the roofs of London architecture

The day passing,

our visit passing...

Again old and new together.

Admiralty Arch.
The arch is connected to the building of the former admiralty.
King Edward VII initiated the creation to honor his mother, Queen Victoria.

 The Latin inscription reads:
ANNO DECIMO EDWARDI SEPTIMI REGIS
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ CIVES GRATISSIMI MDCCCCX,
which means:
''During the tenth year of the reign of Edward VII,
to Queen Victoria by the grateful people, 1910".

The road of The Mall is red.
A symbolic red carpet to Buckingham Palace.

For us it was a real red carpet,
as there was hardly any traffic,
only a few cars of the people who had to clean everything and put the fences away.

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