London - Wednesday 16th April - London Transport Museum & Covent Garden.

Above:- 1923 Tube stock. 

I absolutely crashed last night and must have slept for 10 hours, Graham still hasn't caught up yet and is still a bit weary.

Today its a visit to the London Transport museum which I've wanted to go to since watching the Secrets of the London Underground with Tim and Siddy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_of_the_London_Underground

 So we made our way to Convent Garden.

 Its school holidays here as well and above seems to be parking for the new Transport for London.

As much as we love kids my advice would be to go outside the school holidays.

 

I took lots and lots of photos and it is a really great museum.

Above: Plastic horses complete with plastic horse poo (kids love this detail) and below the same tram with real horses.

 

 These photos are  the 1884 London horse tram.

 Now we reach the years of the first underground lines. (this is the same as the introduction photo with all the 70's type people). 

Would you like to learn to touch type in 8 hours?

 1923,,, Still in service until 1971!

 The underground steam engines.

Here I am below!

 

 

 

Transport for London love their posters and here was a gallery.

 

This ones a bit odd! Info below.

The below one is for London Zoo.

 

 Then we went for a wander through the Covent Garden markets.

We also stopped at St Paul's Church but as it is holy week I didn't take any photos inside.

 

Its the actors church.

 

 We had lunch in the cafe at at the royal opera house.

(would have been nice to do a tour there but don't think we'll have the time this trip)

 

 

 

Not sure what we will do tomorrow.