Royal Naval College Greenwich and Museum
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:30 pm
Forword
As mentioned it was my intention to visit Greenwich and explore the many historic items on display here , and during some posts it appeared that quite a few other members had not visited here either .
Whilst not setting myself up as an expert in any area of Naval history we chose to come here having spoken to perhaps our closest friend( who also was kind enough to start this Forum ) along with others who has a very broad and deep understanding of Naval history and knew my wife’s father very well whilst assisting Tim with a legacy passed on to him from his sadly missed father to whom the Forum is dedicated.
I will attempt to cover the basic details of these on separate threads and hope that other members will contribute by adding their own pictures to each of the separate threads to minimise the chance of going off topic
These will be :-
The Cutty Sark
The National Maritime Naval Musium
The Naval Chapal
The Old Royal Naval College
The Painted Hall
The Royal Observatory
As luck would have it the scaffolding put up to allow access to the ceiling of the Painted hall is coming down at the end of this month so we had unique access to the ceiling during our brief visit there which is not usually available
No flash is allowed so some of the pictures in that area will be darker than wished but that is outside of my control
Unlike most Museums nowadays these collection’s of historic artefacts has benefited hugely and the Museum is Expanding NOT closing ......thanks to the National lottery.... and the the British public’s generosity
Once Home I will attempt to down load what I have managed to take and enhance the pictures on the trusty iMac
I Can not stress the importance of trying to visit ALL these exhibitions yourself and experience it first hand ...this is only a glimpse of this wonderful BRITISH History example to savour
So let’s start off with The Cutty Sark Tea Clipper
As mentioned it was my intention to visit Greenwich and explore the many historic items on display here , and during some posts it appeared that quite a few other members had not visited here either .
Whilst not setting myself up as an expert in any area of Naval history we chose to come here having spoken to perhaps our closest friend( who also was kind enough to start this Forum ) along with others who has a very broad and deep understanding of Naval history and knew my wife’s father very well whilst assisting Tim with a legacy passed on to him from his sadly missed father to whom the Forum is dedicated.
I will attempt to cover the basic details of these on separate threads and hope that other members will contribute by adding their own pictures to each of the separate threads to minimise the chance of going off topic
These will be :-
The Cutty Sark
The National Maritime Naval Musium
The Naval Chapal
The Old Royal Naval College
The Painted Hall
The Royal Observatory
As luck would have it the scaffolding put up to allow access to the ceiling of the Painted hall is coming down at the end of this month so we had unique access to the ceiling during our brief visit there which is not usually available
No flash is allowed so some of the pictures in that area will be darker than wished but that is outside of my control
Unlike most Museums nowadays these collection’s of historic artefacts has benefited hugely and the Museum is Expanding NOT closing ......thanks to the National lottery.... and the the British public’s generosity
Once Home I will attempt to down load what I have managed to take and enhance the pictures on the trusty iMac
I Can not stress the importance of trying to visit ALL these exhibitions yourself and experience it first hand ...this is only a glimpse of this wonderful BRITISH History example to savour
So let’s start off with The Cutty Sark Tea Clipper