Top 140 Things To Do In London, England

Listings 131 to 140

What to do in London?

131. Pollock's Toy museum

Some beautiful toys including, rocking horses, dolls, puppets, trains, cars, board games and the star attractions the teddy bears.

Pollock's Toy museum

132. Street Golf – The Shoreditch Open

You have to travel to the ‘out-skirts’ to find a golf course in London. Alternatively, you can hit the streets. The Shoreditch open is one of the few courses in the world that Tiger Woods is just too afraid to take on. The way golf was meant to be played(?), fire hydrants covers for holes does not stop this being a challenging endeavour. Apply on line to tee-off against Shoreditch’s finest.

Street Golf

133. Brixton

A vibrant cultural suburb of the big smoke. Check out the markets, the clubs, cafes, restaurants and see a side of London many visitors miss. Brixton is also blessed with a tube station.

Brixton

134. Gig

Never be too old, too young or too its not me to have a good time.

See a band

135. Giggle toons

At the Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury just goes to prove that they don’t draw ‘em like they used to.

Giggle at the cartoons

136. King of the Castle

Forget the greasy pole, try a London wall, not the London Wall but not any London Wall either. London has no mountain but a climbing centre can be yours.

King of the Castle

 

137. London Beach Party

Not quite Paris (sorry?) or Bondi Beach in Australia but sometimes, when the tide goes out, the revelers come in.

London Beach Party

138. The London Marathon

A breathtaking experience for the competitors this is a golden opportunity to yell encouragement, have some fun and wonder if maybe, perhaps, you should get abit more exercise. It is really cool if you can do all that eating a hamburger, kebab or chips.

London Marathon

139. Hall Place and Gardens

The splendid Hall Place just reeks of its past and is well served with its adorable gardens that are hard to walk away from.

Hall Place was first built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London. The house boasts a panelled Tudor Great Hall, overlooked by a minstrel's gallery, and various period rooms. The 17th century additions and improvements by Sir Robert Austen include a vaulted Long Gallery and Great Chamber with a fine plaster ceiling.

The Hall Place presides over a 65 hectares estate on the banks of the River Cray at Bexley. Surrounding the house are award winning formal gardens with magnificent topiary, enclosed gardens and inspirational herbaceous borders. In the walled gardens there is a nursery selling plants grown in the Hall Place gardens, and a sub-tropical glasshouse where you can see ripening bananas in mid-winter.

Hall Place and Gardens

140. Bexley Museum Collection

Hall Place is also home to part of the Bexley Museum Collection. The museum collection comprises of over 50,000 objects. The collection is diverse ranging from natural history, geology and archaeology to costume, painting and furniture.

Danson House and Erith Library

As well as Hall's Place the collection is displayed at Danson House and Erith Library. Danson House contains Georgian furnishings, paintings, selected items from the Bean family and Victorian kitchen displays. Erith Library displays a range of industrial and social history collections relating to the north of the borough.

Bexley Museum Collection

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