Download - Westminster to Trafalgar: Half Term Activities for Kids

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Directions:

• StartatWestminsterAbbey.• HeadontoParliamentSquareanddownpastThe

Housesof ParliamentandBigBen.• JoinParliamentStreetandpass:TheDepartmentof

Culture,MediaandSports,HMRevenueandCustoms,Churchill War Rooms, Cenotaph,ForeignandCommonwealthOffice,DowningStreet, Horse Guard Parade, Ministryof Defence,Banqueting House

• FinishupatTrafalgarSquare

MY BABA’sFrom Westminster to Trafalgar

Thistrailisjustoneroadlong,butwow,whataroaditis,itcoversabout1000yearsof historyinjustoverhalf amile.

So,becrownedinWestminsterAbbey,escapeGuyFawke’sgunpowderplot,payyourrespectstothegloriousdeadatTheCenotaphandhelpWinstonChurchillkeepourcountrysafeinTheWarRooms.


INFORMATION For Attractions

ATTRACTION OPENING TIMES COST

Westminster Abbey Check website www.westminster-abbey.org

Adult 18.0011-18yrs 8.00Under 11s free

Churchill War Rooms

Daily 9:30-6pmAdults 17.50

Under 16s free

Banqueting HouseDaily 10-1pm

But check website for closures

Adult 6.60Under 16s free

ACTIVITIESFrom Westminster to Trafalgar

1.Whoarethestatuesof,onthewestdoor(nexttotheshop)?

2.Canyoufindanyof theirnames?

3.WhatsmallchurchstandsnexttoWestminsterAbbey?


4.HowmanystatuesareinParliamentSquare?

5.Canyouspotthestatueof AbrahamLincoln?WhichcountrywashePresidentof?

6.WhotriedtoblowuptheHousesof Parliament?

7.Onwhatdatedidhetrytoblowitup?

8.WhichnumberonDowningStreetdoesthePrimeMinisterlive?

9.WhichfamousKinghadhisheadcutoff atBanquetingHouse?

10.Whositsatopof thelargecolumninTrafalgarSquare?

-1- 20th Century

Martyrs -2- Answers can be

found on a notice on the railings.

-3- St. Margret’s Church -4- 8 stat-

ues -5- USA -6- Guy Fawkes -7- 5th

November 1605

-8- No 10 -9- King Charles I -10-

Horatio Nelson

AnswersFUN FACTS!

• Thereare450tombsinsideWestminsterAbbey,includingroyaltyandfamouspeople.Forseveralhundredyearsanyonewhocouldafforditcouldbeburiedthere-keepaneyeopenforsomeinterestinglookingtombs.

• WestminsterAbbeycontainsBritain’soldestdoor;itwasfoundintheChapterhouseandwasdatedbackto1050.


• Since1308nearlyeveryMonarchhasbeencrownedonthefamousCoronationChair.Butitisactuallycoveredingraffiti–courtesyof schoolboysandvisitorsinthe1700sand1800s.

• BigBenisactuallythenameof oneof thebells.TheclocktowerthateveryonereferstoasBigBenwasrenamedElizabethTowerinhonourof theQueen’sDiamondJubilee.

• DowningStreetisnamedafterSirGeorgeDowning;borninIrelandandgrewupinNewEngland.Hewasoneof thefirstpeopletograduatefromHarvardandmovedtoEnglandduringtheCivilwarin1650.

• No.10DowningStreetwasoriginallyNo.5andwaschangedtoNo.10in1779.

• Thefamousblackdoorof No.10wasn’talwaysblack.From1908to1916itwasadarkgreen.

• No10DowningStreetisoneof themostheavilyguardedbuildingsinBritain.Thefrontdoorcannotbeopenedfromtheoutsidebecauseithasnohandle,andnoonecanenterthebuildingwithoutpassingthroughascannerandasetof securitygatesmannedbyarmedguards.However,inthefirstfiveyearsafterTonyBlairbecameprimeminister,37computers,fourmobilephones,twocameras,amini-discplayer,avideorecorder,fourprinters,twoprojectorsandabicyclewerestolenfromthebuilding.

• BanquetingHouseistheonlysurvivingbuildingof thePalaceof Whitehall,whichburntdownin1698.

• CharlesIfamouslastwordsbeforehisexecutionsatBanquetinghousewere“Igofromacorruptiblecrowntoanincorruptiblecrownwherenodisturbancecanbe.”

• TheHorseGuardParadewasformerlythesiteof thePalaceof Whitehall’stiltyard.Itiswheretournaments,suchasjousting,wereheldduringthereignof HenryVIII.


Eye Spy TrailFor Younger Children

Can you find these objects on your trail?

Westminster AbbeyTick

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Parliament Square


Foreign and Commonwealth Office Cenotaph

Nelson’s Column

Horse Guard’s Parade

Scotland Office

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