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June Outdoor Events 2008
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Royal Ascot returns to the Berkshire course where it has been run virtually every year since 1711. With over £3.5 million in prize money at stake, this meeting attracts all the biggest names in the...
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Royal Hospital Chelsea
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| Royal Hospital Road |
Built by Sir Christopher Wren 1682-1692, the Grade I-listed Royal Hospital Chelsea was intended by King Charles II to be a home for soldiers who were unfit for further duty because of injury or old ag...
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Old Royal Naval College
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| Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, 2, Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich |
The Old Royal Naval College was built on the site of the Tudor Palace in Greenwich in which Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born. William and Mary commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to design the prese...
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The Amphitheatre Restaurant - Royal Opera House
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| Royal Opera House, Bow Street |
Just under the glass dome roof of the imposing Paul Hamyln Hall at the Royal Opera House hangs the Amphitheatre Bar, a stunningly successful fusion of modern and historic design which features plenty...
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Paul Hamlyn Hall Bar & Restaurant - Royal Opera House
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| Royal Opera House, Bow Street |
The hall over which this stunning restaurant and champagne bar looks was named in honour of publisher Paul Hamlyn after his foundation gifted a generous £10m to the Royal Opera House. Even if you dont...
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Royal Albert Hall
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| Kensington Gore |
Classical music, rock, pop and jazz, sporting events, galas, banquets and balls and the world-famous Proms series all take place within the Royal Albert Halls iconic oval walls. One of Londons most v...
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Royal Opera House - Covent Garden London
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| Bow Street |
This impressive building in the heart of Covent Garden has been playing host to major stars of the classical music world since 1858. The third theatre to be located on this site, todays Royal Opera H...
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Royal Observatory Greenwich
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| National Maritime Museum, Greenwich |
This museum of time and space was built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675. It marks the site of the Greenwich or Prime Meridian - the base point for World Time and the site of Longitude 0. If you time i...
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Royal Academy of Arts
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| Burlington House |
Lord Burlingtons spectacular London palace is home to the Royal Academy of Arts, a set of galleries that houses the countrys premier art school and a brilliantly curated program of exhibitions. Theres...
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane
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| Catherine Street |
Londons oldest theatre is also its most spectacular, with a palatial auditorium that is among the most impressive in the world. The first theatre on this site was built in 1662 on the orders of Charle...
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Royal College of Art
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| Kensington Gore |
This is one of Londons most prestigious art colleges and the worlds only wholly postgraduate university of art and design. You will need at least a BA degree to be considered for one of their MA, MPhi...
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Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens)
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| Kew, Richmond |
Since the 18th century, these extensive gardens have been the spiritual home of botany in England, if not in Europe. From the cooling glades of the British Woodland Garden to the pulsating humidity of...
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Royal Court Theatre
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| Sloane Square |
Dedicated to putting on new work and discovering new voices, the Royal Court Theatre was seen as the most important theatre in Europe by no less an authority than The New York Times. In 1956 it staged...
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Royal Air Force Museum London
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| Grahame Park Way, Hendon |
Britains National Museum of Aviation, or RAF Museum, comprises several hundred thousand objects ranging in size from aircraft to lapel badges, and spanning more than a century of aviation history. The...
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Theatre Royal Stratford East
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| Gerry Raffles Square |
Theatre Royal Stratford East opened in 1884 and became the home of the Theatre Workshop Company in 1954. The first performance ever held here was Richelieu by Lytton Strachey. Today the theatre has 45...
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The Royal Oak
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| 73 Columbia Road |
You might just recognise this pub off the telly - it has featured in the Krays film, sitcom Good Night Sweetheart and even Blue Peter. The look - like something straight out of the 1940s - hasnt been...
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Inns of Court and Royal Courts of Justice
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| Strand |
A stunning example of Gothic architecture, Londons Inns of Court date back to before the 14th century. It is here that barristers train and traditionally practice. Located conveniently adjacent to the...
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Royal Geographical Society
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| 1 Kensington Gore |
For the past two centuries this old-fashioned learned society has sent explorers and adventurers all over the world. Famous names from Mungo Park to Captain Scott, David Livingstone to Ernest Shackl...
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Royal Institution of Great Britain
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| 21 Albemarle Street |
Best known for its annual televised Christmas lectures, the RI is one of Britains most famous science institutions and the place where famous scientists such as Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, James De...
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Royal College of Music
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| Prince Consort Road |
The Royal College of Music is the school where Gustav Hoilst, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Benjamin Britten, James Galway, Joan Sutherland and Ralph Vaughan Williams learnt their trades also hosts a regular p...
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Ascot Park Polo Club and Academy
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| Windlesham Road |
An export from England's colonial years in India and contemporarily codified as a game for the rich, Polo is in fact an all-access sport. Why not embrace a rather exclusive English tradition and try a...
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Cafe Royal Hotel
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| 68 Regent Street |
Artists such as Augustus John, James McNeill Whistler and Aubrey Beardsley dined there and, most famously, Oscar Wilde held court there, but now the Royal Cafe is to be turned into a 160-bedroom five...
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The Royal Albert
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| 460 New Cross Road, Deptford |
Freehouse very well received by the locals who include Goldsmiths Art College students and indie kids. Under its previous guise (as the Paradise Bar), Bloc Party, the Rakes, and other hipsters have al...
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The Royal West Bike Tour
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Discover London's West in this unique way with a bike and a professional guide, who will escort you on a tour through the cycle routes, side roads and ally-ways of the capital....
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Ascot Racecourse
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| Ascott, Berkshire |
For the past three centuries, Ascot has been a centrepiece of the British racing season. Its most celebrated event Royal Ascot is also an essential part of the aristocracys social calendar. The queen...
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Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum
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| The Bethlem Royal Hospital Monks Orchard Road BROMLEY |
This intimate, poignant museum pays tribute to the achievements of people suffering with mental health problems. Founded in 1247, the Bethlem Royal Hospital for the mentally ill was the original Bedl...
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Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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| Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincolns Inn Fields |
The home of the Royal College of Surgeons boasts a host of enlightening, permanent and temporary, galleries and exhibitions. Housed in the college, the Hunterian Museum Collection is open to all and w...
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Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum
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| Royal London Hospital, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street |
This exhibition, situated in the crypt of a fine 19th century Gothic church, looks at the history of the Royal London Hospital since its foundation in 1740. It also explores the development of medicin...
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Firepower - Royal Artillery Museum
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| Royal Arsenal |
From sling-shot to missile, this museum traces the evolution of artillery and really is explosive in content. Housing Europes widest variety of historic and modern artillery, Firepower - Royal Artill...
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