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Popular Off the Beaten Path | Miscellaneous Off the Beaten Path Tips | All Tips (1,526) Take a trip to Jordans, which is a small community near Beaconsfield in South Buckinghamshire. The place is famous for its early Quaker activities. It consists of a Meeting House, which was built in 1688, the Mayflower barn, which is said to be constructed from the remains of the Mayflower ship and some more historical buildings. William Penn (1644-1718), the founder of Pennsylvania is buried on the grounds of the Meeting House. I had the pleasure to attend a Quaker wedding of an English friend of mine in Jordans and I realised that it is quite a historic place well worth visiting. Jordans is located about 25 miles northwest of London. The next train station is Seer Green (3/4 mile on foot) which is served from London Marylebone. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.oldjordans.co.uk/
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Built by the Knights Templar, this is the last surviving round church in London. It is nestled between two Inns of Court (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple) which is where law students go to live/study before becoming full-fledged barristers. The very special thing about this church takes place on Sundays 11:15am. The choral mattins, sung by the Temple Church's own all-boy/men choir. 12 men and 18 boys, most AMAZING voices ever. This is also where I met my friend Sir John and his wife Betty. I love Temple Church and the surrounding Inns of Court and this is my plug to you all: Check out Temple Church. Attend a Sunday Choral Mattins (or a lunchtime concert, held on Wednesdays at 1:15PM) or check out the Temple Gardens during the week around lunchtime. The church is beautiful and their preacher/semon-person/priest (called "master") is one of the best rhetoricians I know. Reverend Robin-Griffith Jones, Reverent and Valiant Master of the Temple, is one of the sweetest, smartest men I know and he's recently released his book on the DaVinci Code, debunking the unfounded 'facts' in the book. (Don't get me wrong, I loved the book, but just go to one of the Master's talks and he will win you over. I promise!) I love the Temple Church dearly, I've been attending the services for over a year and I go back whenever I can. I just ask that people who are coming to visit the church, respect the fact that students are studying for their bar exam there and that the Church takes great pains to allow tourists to come into the Inner/Middle Temple area. Feel free to take your pictures, but not during services. If you come for the services, remember that the Church is primarily a place of God and not a tourist site. Please dress appropriately to services and if you want to come to the church but not the service, please wait quietly outside. Otherwise, enjoy your visit to the Temple Church! :-) And I hope you end up loving it as much as I do, regardless of the book. Leave a Comment Website: www.templechurch.com
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| | | | Beneath the Mambo Sun (on Barnes Common)... | Tip Rating: | | | | |
The Planet Queen pays her last respects to her Electric Warrior. This is obviously not a typical Off the Beaten Path Activity, unless you are a Marc Bolan fan and you are in the area (Barnes). But I make no apologies as this is a tribute to my first love ... Marc Bolan, The King of Glam Rock, my hero, my Jeepster. Marc died a tragic and far too early death at the age of 29 in the front passenger seat of the purple mini his girlfriend was driving, when they hit a tree (the one in the photo) on Common Road, Barnes Common, 16th Sept 77. The TAG (T Rex Action Group) have preserved this unassuming little piece of roadway verge forever to Marc's memory. They have cleared a few meters and placed a black marble bust of Marc with his fabulous corkscrew hair and completed with an oh soooo camp purple feather boa. There is a huge notice board at the top of the steps where loyal die-hard fans (yours truly) can pin their messages and the tree is also covered in all kinds of mementos, white swans, cuddly T.Rex's, photos, poems etc etc. Yes it's kitsch and it's tacky, but this time... I just don't care, I am so glad that he is still remembered so fondly by so many. "But it really doesn't matter at all, No it really doesn't matter at all..... Life's a gas!" Read the full report at the BBC "On this Day" Website Leave a Comment Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/08/30/bmbolan130.xml
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Just about every visitor to London will visit the Tower of London and / or Tower Bridge, and rightly so, they are fantastic sights. Just a short walk from both of these is St. Katharine's Dock. There is a wealth of history attached to the place, which is fully explored on the attached website. Basically, for many years it was one of the most important docks for the thriving port of London. Nowadays it has been remodelled into a very attractive marina with shops, restaurants and bars, including one on a boat. There are three distinct basins and in the Western one there a few good examples of the old Thames barges which used to ply their trade on the Thames (see picture in my London album). In summer, the place is full of boats, although there are craft moored there all year round. My picture was taken in mid January. The Dickens Inn (seen in the background of my photo) is a pleasant , if expensive, place for a drink or a bite to eat. Before the area was excavated to make way for the docks, there was a thriving community here serving the needs of the Tower, including a hospital and a chapel. When the docks were redeveloped, a small chapel was constructed on the site of the original one. To my great annoyance it is now - a Starbucks coffee shop! Leave a Comment Phone: 0207 264 5312Website: http://www.skdocks.co.uk/
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