The O2 Arena formerly the Millennium Dome.

Up and Over the O2 and it is only 52 metres high and if you have 90 minutes you will be supplied with Ecco shoes, a full all-in-one climb suit to be worn over your normal clothes, and there is a guide. If you need an inhaler then the guide will carry it for you !! Climbers transverse along a suspended walkway that is 380m long including the journey back down. It does not look like a walk in the park and looked pretty crowded when we looked up.  I did not see anyone with a tripod...

A Slice of Reality

Richard Wilson's (sculptor) modern artwork " A Slice of Reality" a commissioned for the Millennium Dome on the north-west bank of the Greenwich Peninsular.  It is a vertical section though the former sand dredger ARCO TRENT (a 240 foot vessel) and exposes the former living quarters of the vessel. It was cut out and fitted in four months.  Look out for the pool table in the lower decks. Wilson views this piece of work, as a sound bite, crying itself back into the river as a lost industry.  In 1936, the time of King George, 1000 ships would go pass this point to the commonwealth.  Nine artists were chosen for the North Meadow Sculpture Project from the UK and Wilson was one of them. This was an unexpected, extraordinary sight and quite surreal. Architectural magic on the Thames.

A view of Canary Wharf from Greenwich

I can't believe that it was in 1987 the Canadian company Olympia and York agreed to construct a major office development on the Isle of Dogs, with construction commencing in 1988. It is my first visit but not the last.

The Queen's House, Greenwich

The Queen’s House, designed by Inigo Jones was built between 1616 and 1635, and is the earliest english building in the Italian Renaissance Palladian style. (influenced by the Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, and designed by Giuliano de Sangallo)  It was commissioned by Anne of Denmark, wife of King James 1. It is surmised that James 1 gave the manor of Greenwich to Anne in apology for having sworn at her in public, after she accidentally shot one of his favourite dogs while hunting in 1614.  Building of the house ceased in1618 when Ann became ill and died in 1619.  Charles 1, James' son gave the house to his queen, Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henri IV of France.  The house is famous for the marble floor and the ironwork of the "tulip stairs" the first centrally, unsupported spiral staircase in Britain. 

Marble Floor

The Tulip Stairs

Greenwich Observatory 

Tall Ships, Greenwich

Cutty Sark

Looking for treasure - Tall ships Greenwich