Thames Path - Millbank, Westminster

 

I headed down to Pimlico the other day and walked another two sections of the Thames Path. I passed Tate Britain and Millbank Tower, etc, and approached Parliament from what for me is an unusual angle, via Victoria Tower Park.

10 Poets Buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

National Library of Wales, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

1. Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 1400 Author and poet
2. Edmund Spenser c. 1552 1599 Poet
3. Abraham Cowley 1618 1667 Poet
4. John Dryden 1631 1700 Poet and playwright
5. Samuel Johnson 1709 1784 Author, poet and lexicographer
6. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 1892 Poet
7. Robert Browning 1812 1889 Poet and playwright
8. Thomas Hardy 1840 1928 Author and poet
9. John Masefield 1878 1967 Poet and author
10. Rudyard Kipling 1865 1936 Author and poet

London Welsh

I was in central London yesterday (the day after St David's Day) and it was a joy to see the Welsh flag flying over Westminster Abbey. My wife is in the nearby St Margaret's today for the annual St David's day service of the Houses of Parliament (she was celebrating last Friday at the London Welsh Centre and last night at the Guildhall - you can't over do it).

Westminster Abbey

While most people in Westminster seemed to be busy with the Mandela statue this Wednesday the group of John Owen students under Chad Van Dixhoorn's tutelage for the week headed to the Jerusalem Chamber (main scene not only of the Assemly but also earlier used by committees translating the AV) and other parts of Westminster Abbey where we were treated to a description of the Assembly and began to get some insight into how the whole thing worked. Lecturing continued later over coffee in the sunshine of St James's Park. What a good day. How good it will be when the minutes that have survived are finally out in the public domain.