With more than 300 million visitors each year the natural history museum is one of London’s most popular attractions and it’s little wonder when you consider that it’s home to the world’s finest collection of natural history artefacts.
Hundreds of exciting, interactive exhibits. Highlights include Dinosaurs, the ultimate dinosaur exhibition. It’s unforgettable and free!!!
The house of Commons is part of the process of politics. In parliament there are 650 MP’s; in the House of Lords there are 720 lords. In parliament there is three sections the Commons the Lords and the Queen. The Queen visits once a year for the state opening of parliament, her Royal Highness is not allowed in the room of Commons, but she is allowed in the House of Lords. In the House of Lords was a throne in the middle. The queen would sit there and her husband and princess Anne at the sides. If you sat down in parliament you would be escorted out.
On parliament street there is the amazing Big Ben, Whitehall, West minister abbey,
Downing Street the house of parliament. The London eye and the souvenir shop.
The cenotaph has union flags on. It is to remember all the people that fight and die in the war. Everybody who goes there spends a lot of time to remember and forgive. The cenotaph actually stands for empty tomb.
The changing of the guard happens every hour, on the changing of the guard there are two horses and three men. The middle man when he walks he chants some sort of fierce chant. Two men are sat on horses and the other man had ridiculously weird boots.
The underground is really noisy. Once the train starts it takes about two minutes to get to the next stop. Everybody on the train is in some sort of ipod trance. When the cheetah like speed train stops it waits two seconds then it jerks and judders. On the way out of the underground you might feel sick because of the pressure changing the atmosphere; also the walls are squished and crammed with cinema ads.
Interesting facts about Parliament Street
- Big Ben is not a clock it is a bell.
- The Cenotaph is a Greek word for empty tomb.
- In parliament you’re not allowed to sit on any chairs in the House of Commons or Lords.
By James Webb