Located at Bankside, London, here is the full-sized replica of the Golden Hinde, the renamed ship of Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world. Drake went looking for new shipping routes and trade links, claiming land for Queen Elizabeth I including New England in the US. He came back with a fortune and Queen Elizabeth knighted him aboard his ship in Deptford on 26 September 1580 declaring the ship should be a national museum but with time it fell into disrepair and disintegrated, hence this fine specimen and others including one at Brixham, Devon. Of the original timbers there remains a chair at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and a table named the ‘cupboard’ at the Middle Temple in London.
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The Regent's Canal dates from 1812. It runs from the Thames at Limehouse to the junction with the Grand Union Canal. It passes through Mile End, Bethnal Green, Islington, Camden, Regents Park and through the middle of London Zoo.
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Originally constructed in 1885 to accommodate the ever growing population around Clapham Junction, the cupola dome was added after a fire ravaged the building in 1909.
Grade II Listed Broomfield House, before the fire in 1984, at present the Government is not able to award the money to restore the house. Taken with a 35mm camera.