London Off the Beaten Path Tips by Aragina

The Freud Museum. This is the home of Dr Sigmund Freud the emiment Psychoanalyst,from when he and his family escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. Freud's library and study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.The house is also filled with memories of his daughter, Anna, who lived there for 44 years and continued to develop her pioneering psychoanalytic work, especially with children. It was her wish that the house become a museum to honour her illustrious father.

20 Maresfield Gardens
London NW3 5SX
020 7435-2002 or 020 7434-5167
Internet: http://www.freud.org.uk

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London Canal Museum. Learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into a huge Victorian ice well used to store ice imported from Norway and brought by ship and canal boat to be stored. The museum is housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker, and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals. This is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King's Cross. there is a naroowboat that you can look into and explore. Just be careful not to get your feet wet. this for me was a wonderful experience, as many of my ancestor's worked the Canal's in London in the early 1800's.

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The Old Curiosity shop, Immortalised by Charles Dickens and built in 1567. It now sells Antiques and Modern Art.
Just of Sardinia Street, Holborn, London.

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Statue of Edith Cavell. A nurse who was executed in Belgium for harbouring British soldiers. It is situated just off Trafalgar Square. And reminds me why I became a nurse.

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The Thames Flood Barrier<br.
This nifty bit of engineering stops london being flooded by surge tides<br.There are direct boat services from Westminster Pier (via Canary Wharf) and Greenwich Pier, also boats from Charing Cross and Tower Piers which connect with the Greenwich service. <br.

Nearest BR station: Charlton (from Charing Cross, Waterloo East, (Cannon St. rush hours) and London Bridge (20 minute Riverside Walk).

Thames Barrier Visitors Centre
Unity Way, Woolwich, London SE18 5NJ
Tel. (+44) 181 854 1373
Fax: (+44) 181 855 2146

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The Jewel Tower. The Jewel Tower is all that remains of the Palace of Westminster. Built in 1336 as a treasure house. Opposite The Houses of Pariliament

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National Portrait Gallery, just around the corner from the National Gallery, as its name suggests, concentrates on paintings of people. Constructed in the 19th century, the National Portrait Gallery's comprehensive collection contains over 7,000 paintings of Britain's leading men and women from the past to the present.

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Scotland Yard. The paramount Police Station in the United Kingdom.

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The Solar Clock. Placed on the Thames Path. It is there to record the coming of the 3rd millenuim.

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Telecom Tower. Go ahead, go and strain your neck to look at this communication centre.

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