A bit of a miscellaneous day for seeing lots of small places or things that were on our to-do list.
Ben started his morning with a visit to the British Museum to see:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/currency-crisis-german-emergency-money-1914-1924
The kids and I headed north to see Abbey Road pedestrian crossing of The Beatles fame. Maddie enjoys music and her lovely year 10 teacher is an absolute Beatles fan so a photo and a souvenir for him were a must.
We got off the train at Great Portland St to take photos of Portland Hospital where Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and also Harry's son Archie were born. Then proceeded to St John's Wood station for the Abbey Road photo.
Our next thing to see was the John Snow water pump in Broadwick St Soho. Snow was the person to discover that Cholera is water borne and that the disease outbreak in that part of London had this particular water pump in common. He used a map to plot where each case lived and this led him to the pump as the cause. This was in Queen Victoria's day when science, medicine and mechanisation were being encouraged by the Queen's husband Prince Albert.
Ben & I had wanted to find the pump so after the kids and I took some photos we headed off to meet Ben at Marks and Spencer for lunch. As it turns out he saw the pump too on his way to meet us. Only over the following months when infectious diseases, tracing infection etc became the centre of our lives did the kids realise that the pump and John Snow were actually pretty significant.
After a busy morning we headed back to the hotel for some well earned rest, the previous couple of weeks were starting to catch up with us.
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