Wallace and Wapping…

[Wapping]

A Wandering to the Wallace Collection and a bit further.

It’s been a while since I visited the Wallace Collection in Marylebone, W1. So I thought I’d wander along there on a damp Saturday morning. Not least it’s free for me to get there and, like many museums, free to wander about.

Wallace Collection - Wikipedia

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The Wallace Collection

Discover exceptional paintings, sculpture, ceramics, furniture and arms and armour, gifted to Britain in 1900, in a historic London house museum.

www.wallacecollection.org

Locked only whilst the pictures update on my iPad.

 

[Wapping]

E1 is a heaving mass of humanity and bustling activity at 09:15 on a Saturday:



The London plane trees are (not unusually) being cut right back by the council. The trees will bounce right back in the spring and summer of next year:

 

[Wapping]

The overground (running underground) Windrush Line train, takes my (via Brunel’s tunnel) under the Thames to Canada Water, where it’s just a matter of changing trains. The next line is the traditional underground ‘tube’ train on the Jubilee line to Bond Street station, about halfway along Oxford Street, W1.

The train is busy but not rammed to the gunnels:



Up and onto Oxford Street, which was very quiet, the Christmas decorations having gone up:



Turn left out of Baker Street tube station, walking along Oxford Street, westwards (towards Marble Arch) but hang a right at Selfridges:



To turn up Duke Street:



The ‘Arôme’ bakery, already has a lengthy queue outside:

 

[Posh Pete]

Thank you Wapping. On our behalf, you put your very life at risk in the badlands of east London! Come to think of it, that was posted some hours ago! Are you OK? Post again soon! Let us know you're OK!

 

[Wapping]

Still well, thank you.

 

[oblertone]

Typo alert Bond not Baker

 

[Wapping]

Typo alert Bond not Baker

Thank you.

I’ll correct.

I was probably thinking of the bakery down the road, whilst looking at the pictures.

 

[Wapping]

On we go again….

Into Manchester Square, another of London’s ‘Green lungs’




And on to today’s main destination, the Wallace Collection, which (like most of London’s museums and private collections) is free to visit:

Manchester Square - Wikipedia

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Manchester Square, The Marchioness Of Hertford And A Very Old Lane - A London Inheritance

Manchester Square, the Prince of Wales and Lady Hertford and the original route of Marylebone Lane before the building. Georgian architecture and history.

alondoninheritance.com

The Wallace Collection

Discover exceptional paintings, sculpture, ceramics, furniture and arms and armour, gifted to Britain in 1900, in a historic London house museum.

www.wallacecollection.org

Wallace Collection - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Monsieur]

An invigorating stroll indeed.
Duke Street? Do I recall the Duchess of Duke Street?

 

[Wapping]

The Wallace Collection, besides hosting Rembrandt’s famous painting of the ‘Laughing Cavalier’, is home to a stunning collection of suits of armour, well worth a look in their own right.

I also like looking at the portraits and scenes in the paintings on display. Why? In a time long before cameras and FaceBook, paintings give us a glimpse on what the country looked like, the clothes people wore and how they lived. The house I grew up in was built in in the 1680’s, by looking at the paintings I can get an impression of the people and what rural Northamptonshire probably looked like.

I’ll let the snaps I took speak for themselves:

 

[Wapping]

 

[Wapping]

 

[Wapping]

An invigorating stroll indeed.
Duke Street? Do I recall the Duchess of Duke Street?

Thank you.

Indeed, the TV programme, the Duchess of Duke Street. She lives on, with a pub named after her, ‘The Duchess’.

The Duchess of Duke Street - Wikipedia

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[oblertone]

The Wallace Collection do a rather fine lunch as I recall

 

[Wapping]

The Wallace Collection do a rather fine lunch as I recall

The restaurant / cafe is very good. I woukd normally have eaten there, but I was bound elsewhere,

 

[timeandtide]

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Thank you Richard, I really enjoyed that!

 

[Wapping]

Thank you Richard, I really enjoyed that!

Welcome and thank you.

The Wallace is very popular with tourists, not least as it’s very different to a conventional museum or gallery.

The nice thing about going there is that everyone is uniformly polite.

 

[Jazbee]

Thanks, never heard of this.....was expecting a glass case with William Wallace's skeletal head, intestines and balls on show

 

[Jazbee]

You ever been up in the Garden at 120 Wapping? Was thinking of a visit next time down in the smoke.....

The Garden at 120

www.thegardenat120.com

 

[Wapping]

You ever been up in the Garden at 120 Wapping? Was thinking of a visit next time down in the smoke.....

Indeed.

It’s just across from our office and pretty popular.