What's your favourite British landmark?

Page 2 of 2 [ 32 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2

Previous topic | Next topic

CockneyRebel
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 118,177
Location: In my little Olympic World of peace and love

13 Jan 2006, 11:41 pm

St Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of London and the Tower Bridge and the Routemaster. (I just had to put in the last one.)

nirrti_rachelle
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Jul 2005
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,302
Location: The Dirty South

13 Jan 2006, 11:58 pm

Harrod's (I love shopping) :lol:
The Millenium Wheel
Buckingham Palace
The Underground (I love subways)

_________________
"There is difference and there is power. And who holds the power decides the meaning of the difference." --June Jordan

Emettman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,025
Location: Cornwall, UK

14 Jan 2006, 3:19 am

It doesn't look like the Diana memorial fountain has quite made the grade...

Though a stroll through Kensington gardens, Hyde park, Green park and St. James' park is an impressive walk on a nice day.
(a golden-leafed autumn, perhaps, but that that was another thread)

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct: impressive from below, and impressive a different way taking a boat across it!
http://www.chirk.com/aqueduct.html

mjs82
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Jun 2005
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,166

14 Jan 2006, 9:25 am

Fogman wrote:

I've Never been there but, I like the former Battersea Power Station.

-- For those of you who don't know what this is, it was on the covers of Pink Floyd's "Animals", Hawkwind's "Quark Strangenes and Charm" releases, as well as the movie 1984, where it stood in as the headquarters for the Ministry of Love.

Pics can be seen here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/ ... er_station

Ooh, excellent taste :wink:

To join the rank outsider list, I'm going to have to second that one.

queerpuppy
Sea Gull

Joined: 12 Feb 2005
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 224
Location: S.E. London

14 Jan 2006, 9:33 am

I love the outside of Battersea power station, but the interior of derelict buildings freak me out. I used to have nightmares about them, when I was a very small child. That, and nightmares about the Barbican.

Emettman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,025
Location: Cornwall, UK

14 Jan 2006, 9:53 am

queerpuppy wrote:

...and nightmares about the Barbican.

That's reasonable. I haunted that area in 1974-78, while at Northampton Hall of City University. The Barbican walkways were an odd location, doubly so at odd hours of the night. Hardly ever anyone around...
(Coming back from a 2am expedition to Dunkin Donuts at Ludgate Circus, perhaps, celebrating finishing a piece of coursework at the last hour.)

psych
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,488
Location: w london

14 Jan 2006, 10:47 am

Emettman wrote:

It doesn't look like the Diana memorial fountain has quite made the grade...

I consider myself to be a mature and generally responsible individual...

but the temptation to piss in that perpetual-stream when 200 tourists are paddling there....ooohh - it takes more restraint than can reasonably be expected!

psych
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,488
Location: w london

14 Jan 2006, 10:50 am

Emettman wrote:

..
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct: impressive from below, and impressive a different way taking a boat across it!
http://www.chirk.com/aqueduct.html

I wanted to post that, but didnt know the name. I was seriously planning to move onto the waterways at one point, and that wouldve been my first pilgrimage - have you been across it?

Emettman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,025
Location: Cornwall, UK

14 Jan 2006, 2:56 pm

psych wrote:

have you been across it?

Yes, I've taken a boat across it, in '84 or '85. I was on the roof at that point, for photographical perspective, one way and on the helm the other. Most of the crew were cowering inside, both ways.

Living on a canal boat was something that occured to me, but I encountered too many checks when I considered the practicalities.

psych
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,488
Location: w london

14 Jan 2006, 5:16 pm

on the roof?! ! that mustve taken some balls! - one moment of dizziness....

Laz
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Dec 2005
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,540
Location: Dave's Toilet

14 Jan 2006, 5:36 pm

I like the white cliffs of dover answer. Hopefully its when you are moving away from them on a ferry out of the country. Joy :lol:

Emettman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,025
Location: Cornwall, UK

15 Jan 2006, 4:42 am

With nice timing, it seems that the Department of Culture, Media and Sport are running a project seeking "British Icons" and have got a preliminary list of twelve.

I caught this on Radio 4 (another icon) and found the transcript on-line:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4610366.stm

And yes, CockneyRebel, the Routemaster is there!

Here we go: browse, vote or nominate.

http://www.icons.org.uk/

TheBladeRoden
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,208
Location: Wisconsin

15 Jan 2006, 5:51 am

queerpuppy wrote:

Quote:

London Bridge.

Do you mean London Bridge, which is a "fairly dull edifice comprising three spans of pre-stressed concrete cantilevers" ( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge )and is really bland, or do you mean Tower Bridge, which is a Victorian gothic-revival masterpiece?

I ask for clarification because the two are often confused by people not from Britain - to the tune that the London Bridge opened in 1831 was bought by some American entrepreneur and rebuilt in Arizona. He thought he was buying Tower Bridge, but called it London Bridge.

All I know is that the London Bridge is currently falling down. At least, that's what I told some lady.

_________________
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" -Adam Savage

kevv729
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,872
Location: SOUTH DAKOTA

15 Jan 2006, 6:50 am

queerpuppy wrote:

Quote:

London Bridge.

I guess I meant the Tower Bridge.

_________________
Come on My children lets All get Along Okay.

KingdomOfRats
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Posts: 4,833
Location: f'ton,manchester UK

15 Jan 2006, 1:46 pm

Anyone know what that hill/cliff(?) with the white chalk horse carved into it is called?
Only landmarks I have ever seen up close are mostly all within my own city as I don't travel out of here,but I think that horse carving is amazing,and i've only seen it on tv or photos.

_________________
>severely autistic.
>>the residential autist; http://theresidentialautist.blogspot.co.uk
blogging from the view of an ex institutionalised autism/ID activist now in community care.
>>>help to keep bullying off our community,report it!

Emettman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,025
Location: Cornwall, UK

15 Jan 2006, 2:10 pm

KingdomOfRats wrote:

Anyone know what that hill/cliff(?) with the white chalk horse carved into it is called?

The ancient white horse is at Uffington.

http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/hillfigs/uff/uffing.htm

There are other chalk figures,
(Long man of Wilmington, Cerne Abbas Giant)

But the horse is the most graceful (and the giant the rudest)

Page 2 of 2 [ 32 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2

Jump to:

What's your favourite British landmark? Post Reply New Topic

What's your favourite British landmark?