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Got a day trip to London planned at the weekend, got the following planned:-
Condor cycles/Cycle surgery holborn/Science museum - F1 display/HOST gallery - photo8 display/design museum
Is there anything else I might like with a photography/design/engineering/cycling theme?
Cheers.
National Portrait Gallery usually has a photographic exhibition. Trundle up the East End and see RudeBoy for the ultimate London Experience? 🙂
Second the NPG, but don't forget the National next door! Some other ideas;
Photo related;
Take some shots of the kids wiv da skids on their ickle 20" wheeled bikes down at the South bank
Get lsot around one of the Mews near the Museums. Lovely views, colourful flowers and some great pubs!
Bike related;
Bikefix - Lamb's Conduit St - A haven for some of the more esoteric forms of the cycling world! http://www.bikefix.co.uk/
Imperial War Museum? Very engineering based - lots of tanks and planes and bombs and stuff!
How about Brixton Cycles with the skate park directly next to it with some ridiculously talented street riders doing their thing between the skaters.
Cheers, some good ideas there, I'll start googling them!
If you look around the whole of the Science Museum that can easily take up most of a day.
And seeing as you're there you might as well nip next door to the Natural History Museum, if only to see the Diplodocus skeleton in the main hall.
I used to go in here
http://www.photonet.org.uk/
The Photographers Gallery, when it used to be off Long Acre.
Good exhibitions (free)
Now up near Oxford circus but Ive not been in lately,
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich!
There's a planetarium there now and quite a bit of mindboggling stuff about the enormity of space (even with a calculator i couldn't get my head round it)
Is there anything under the Westway worth looking at, did they ever replace the Slam City half pipe?
There was an amazing cycle shop in a basement near Fouberts Place anyone know what it was called?
Cheers,
What camera shops are worth visiting - Anyone been to Greys of westminster (Nikon specialist), I need a few tripod accessories, is it a case of trawling up tottenham court road?
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Blaggers, Greys is a funny old spot, but worth a look if you like Nikon! Check to see if they're open, though.
(Some great places to eat/drink around that part of the world, try the Chorizo Tortilla at Ivanos on Tachbrook St....)
I'd second MF - IWM is awesome, particularly Holocaust stuff, frightening and humbling.
I like the Design Museum near Tower Bridge too.