Tuesday 5th July an Old Flames v

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An Old Flames visit to the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce on 26th July 2017 with a walk before

Map of our walk	There was light rain at the start	Keeping dry	PM style shoes
Oh my Bleeding Heart	Saffron Hill	Crouched	Breakfast anyone, Leather Lane?
A Leather Lane survivor	St Alban the Martyr Church Baldwins Gardens	Along the nave	The story of the Martyr
St Alban	Cakes labelled to order	Staples Inn, High Holborn note the smaller London Griffin	90
Temple Court	Replica Pump	Onwards, Temple Inn	Chapel of Institute of Actuaries
Was Heron House when I worked for British Gas here	Smoke Break at a back gate to Old Square Lincolns Inn	Raining again, Chancery Lane	Pret a Manger for Coffee etc
Chilly in the rain?	Alley	Baranis Restaurant....	...and a detail
Kings College, Chancery Lane	Entrance to the Inner Temple	South side of the Strand	The Old Cock pub
Looking for photo shots	Gaslight lit	The Temple church.....	...is discussed
A glimpse	Undercroft	Two Templars on a horse	Middle Temple Hall
Throughway	Inner Temple Gardens	Middle Temple Lane	A Modern Lawyer?
Grand gateway to Middle Temple Lane	An original City of London Griffin relocated from outside the demolished Coal Exchange to the Embankment	Bulldog Trust, 2 Temple Place, the mansion of William Waldorf Astor, richest Victorian in the world	A young Left Arm Spin Bowler on entrance steps to 2 Temple Place
Globe House, British American Tobacco Co HQ. Mercury is by Sir Charles Wheeler	"Get off my roof" Victoria Embankment Gardens	Revolving Door	"Perfume" exhibition at Somerset House
Michael Faraday, outside the IEE Savoy Place	Another "Tardis" in Victoria Embankment Gardens?	Henry Fawcett, blind reformer, economist and supporter of Darwin	A little snooze. The streets around were GEORGE-VILLIERS-DUKE-OF(Alley)- BUCKINGHAM as a condition of the land sale
Memorial to the Imperial Camel Corps	Built in 1626 as a Water Gate for George Villiers' York House. The Embankment moved the Thames 50 yards away.	Buckingham Street corner	The RSA was founded by William Shipley in 1754. Its idea for the Great Exhibition was taken up by the Government and for the first 100 years it encouraged excellence in Agriculture, Mechanics, Polite Arts, Colonies and Trade through an Award Scheme. It now has a family of Academy Schools and awards diplomas in various practical skills and trades.
The Georgian house was designed by Robert Adam in the early 1770s	The Reception area	Modern Chandelier by Troika	Original Main Staircase
The present President, Princess Ann	Admiring the Great Room with its Frieze "The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture" by James Barry that took him 23 years to complete	The Arts? with a Tower of Babel	Georgian Clock
Angela takes notes in the Benjamin Franklin Room	Up from the Cellar to...	....an unusual Royal Portrait	Courtyard staircase that connects both houses
A painting of Rannoch Moor	The RSA Cafe	The remains of a road down to the Thames under the building.....	...has become a theatre
The Vaults	A model promoting a new design	Art	Chequered floor
Restored ceiling in the "Prince Philip Room"	Number 9 John Adam Street, similar to 10 Downing Street	John Adam Street, the rain had cleared. The Art Deco Adelphi offices, which once housed the LSE is on the right	The Coal Hole for a late lunch served by a charming tattooed Polish waitress
Just resting but well supplied	Strand Station, closed!	Ludgate Circus	Having walked from Farringdon we would have liked the tour of RSA, 10 John Adam Street, to have been shorter, but I am now clearer about the difference between RSA and the Royal Society. You can just subscribe to the RSA amongst other things. We walked along the Strand after lunch to City Thameslink station and then home