Take advantage of the good weather again and head to the London Museum, Docklands, where there's an exhibition featuring the ongoing archaeological discoveries connected with the cross rail excavations as a new rail line is put in, underground in mid London but ultimately extending all the way to Reading. The oldest of the finds are very old indeed, and include bones that have been identified as belonging to woolly mammoths! And there are bone fragments from reindeer and bison found at the Royal Oak tube station site, about a fifteen minute walk from where we are now staying, where 68,000 years ago the Westbourne River flowed through treeless meadows. Though life was not entirely peaceful. The deer and bison bones have been gnawed by carnivores like wolves. There are much more recent artefacts, of course. Pottery from Roman to Victorian times and coins, for example, and photos of earlier days. A fascinating display.
We've noted on Twitter that the Stop the War Coalition has a demo planned for five o'clock at 10 Downing Street protesting the missile attack on Syria this morning. Not, of course, by the UK, but government has been making supportive noises. The group does outnumber the police, but it's not large. Possibly down to lack of time between attack and demo. We're not, of course, allowed on Downing Street, although J can remember a time when the public could go there, so the gathering is on the other side of Whitehall, next to what appears to be a semi-permanent anti-Brexit display.
Posts
