A Walk From the Royal Academy of Arts to the House of MinaLima

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Jan 14, 2017
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Google says it is 1.3miles and will take 26mins, If you stop for food/drinks and to look around museums it will take you longer!!

Start stop 1

Royal Academy of Arts

Under the archways are the wooden prototypes of the red phone boxes

You can also visit the Royal Academy of Arts, its on my to do list, there are free exhibitions and ones that you will need tickets and to pay for. Also has toilets and a café. Closed on Mondays.

Here you can walk up Old Bond Street or through the Burlington Arcade. Both, full of expensive designer shops.

Stop 2

Horse & Rider

Beautiful statue

Stop 3

Churchill & Roosevelt Allies Sculpture

Love this bench with Churchill & Roosevelt having a chat.

Stop 4

Faraday Museum at the Royal Institute

A lovely little museum full of interesting bits dedicated to Michael Faraday,

Stop 5

Coach & Horses Mayfair

Not been here another one that is on my list to see!!! Its London’s ‘narrowest’ pub and its over 250 years old

Sells food and drink, will have seats and a toilet. A Green King pub, meal and a drink will be around £15-£20.

Stop 6

Hamleys

The best toy shop ever!!! I have not been since 2021!! I expect the displays have changed but defiantly worth a visit, just leave your bank card at home!!!! Its expensive.

The map will take you a longer way to the next stop as it will take you passed liberties of London.

Stop 7

Shakespeare’s Head

Look up!! Another Green King Pub but this one has Shakespeare looking out of a window.

Also sells food and drink, will have seats and a toilet. A Green King pub, meal and a drink will be around £15-£20.

Stop 8

Spirit of Soho Mural

A stunning mural

Stop 9

Broad Street Pump

Also known as the cholera pump. Dr John Snow discovered the source of the outbreak back in 1854.

Quote from Wikipedia

“On 31 August 1854, after several other outbreaks had occurred elsewhere in the city, a major outbreak of cholera occurred in Soho. Snow later called it "the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom.

Over the next three days, 127 people on or near Broad Street died. During the next week, three quarters of the residents had fled the area. By 10 September, 500 people had died and the mortality rate was 12.8 per cent in some parts of the city. By the end of the outbreak, 616 people had died.

Many of the victims were taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where their treatment was superintended by Florence Nightingale, who briefly joined the hospital in early September in order to help with the outbreak.”