 (46K) 645 x 432 | Walking along the river, just an example of some of the London architecture. |
 (37K) 645 x 432 | View of the Thames, with Big Ben in the background. |
 (30K) 645 x 432 | The London "Eye", a gigantic ferris-wheel 135 meters high (440 feet), doing a full rotation every 30 minutes. |
 (30K) 432 x 645 | The Clock Tower of Parliment, most don't realize that Big Ben is not the name of the clock (there are 4 clocks) - its the name of the largest bell in the chime, which weighs almost 14 tons and named after Sir Benjamin Hall. |
 (29K) 645 x 432 | The Houses of Paliment, the current Gothic Revival buildings date from 1840. |
 (71K) 645 x 432 | The Cabinet War Rooms, where an undergound bunker was built in the storage basement under this unsuspecting civil service building. |
 (24K) 645 x 432 | Hereis the Cabinet Room from which Winston Churchill and his government ran the nation during World War II bombing raids. |
 (44K) 432 x 645 | The Transatlantic Telephone Room was no more than a closet, which was linked to a special scrambler so Churchill could confer with Roosevelt. The door to the room was disguised as a locked lavatory. |
 (32K) 645 x 432 | Many of the rooms in this bombproof bunker are exactly as they were in Septermber 1945. |
 (45K) 645 x 432 | There were 21 rooms in all. Even the secretaries and staff had to work (and often live) in these cramped conditions. |
 (40K) 645 x 432 | The Map Room is covered with huge wall maps. |
 (36K) 645 x 432 | Notice the bank of multicolored telephones in this communications room. Only the green phones were "secure" lines. |
 (48K) 645 x 432 | Churchill's bedroom/office. He had this custom stand made so that he could work from his bed. |
 (44K) 645 x 432 | The National Gallery with an incredible (large) collection of Westen (European) art from the 13th to 20th century. |
 (39K) 645 x 432 | Caravaggio, the Supper at Emmaus. |
 (63K) 432 x 645 | A nice stain-glass window of the crucifixion. |
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 (51K) 645 x 432 | These were a series of tapestries on the life of Peter. Here the call of Peter after the miraculous catch of fish. |
 (57K) 645 x 432 | Peter healing the cripled man. |
 (40K) 432 x 645 | Sampson, who slayed thousands of men with what? The jaw bone of an ass. |
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