title A Trip to the Natural History Museum, Kensington, London - 15th January 2022 intro We're off for a visit to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. We get there in plenty of time so fit in a visit to Pizza Express on Gloucester Road, and then do a bit of ice skating outside the museum itself. imgc0443 There's a Christmas tree in the middle imgc0444 Skaters on the rink outside the museum imgc0446 Harry's really enjoying it all imgc0449 Harry's got a Penguin to help with skating imgp1850 We stand on the bridge and look out imgp1852 Diss railway station imgp1853 The boys on the railway footbridge imgp1854 The former Charrington's and Network Rail cabin imgp1855 Harry looks a bit ennui imgp1857 Class 90 90008 has been repainted as Freightliner imgp1858 Harry sits by the train door imgp1859 Liverpool Street station imgp1860 Isobel walks through the ticket barrier imgp1861 On the escalators down to the Underground imgp1862 The tube advertising is all Covid messages imgp1863 A Central Line tube comes into the station imgp1866 Isobel looks back on the escalator imgp1867 Another tube train arrives imgp1868 Isobel and the boys on the tube imgp1869 Harry lies back on the tube imgp1870 Harry and Fred wait to get off the tube imgp1871 A quieter Gloucester Road tube station imgp1872 A particularly funky tunnel entrance imgp1873 The ticket barriers at Gloucester Road imgp1876 The nicely tiled Gloucester Road station imgp1877 A Victorian tiled sign for the station imgp1878 Some dude feeds the pigeons imgp1879 A very flower tea rooms imgp1880 A couple of neglected K6 phone boxes imgp1882 The Hereford Arms pub imgp1883 We walk past Gloucester Road tube again imgp1885 A block of houses on Gloucester Road imgp1887 The kitchen of Pizza Express imgp1889 Fred gets his Lego stash out imgp1893 Gloucester Road Pizza Express imgp1895 Nosher's pizza arrives imgp1896 Atherstone Mews imgp1898 A pair of rarer K2 phone boxes imgp1900 The gang on Exhibition Road imgp1903 We hang around outside the skating rink imgp1907 A carousel does its thing imgp1908 The imposing Victorian Natural History Museum imgp1911 The grand Hintze Hall imgp1915 The blue whale skeleton which replaced Dippy imgp1917 Fossil plesiosaurs on the wall imgp1919 We look at more fossils imgp1920 Dead as a Dodo imgp1921 Harry points at the inside of a cool geode imgp1924 Another impressive specimen of mineral imgp1926 A really cool mineral extrusion imgp1928 Harry gets a souvenir coin thing imgp1934 A view of the rear of the blue whal skeleton imgp1939 The impressive minerals collection room imgp1940 A blob of iridescent mass imgp1941 Fred flakes out in the minerals room imgp1944 There's a collection of diamonds which flouresce imgp1946 The view out of rippled glass imgp1947 The head of the blue whale imgp1951 Charles Darwin looks out onto the heaving masses imgp1952 A sliced ammonite imgp1954 Fred buys some science rocks imgp1956 A gorgeous layered crystal imgp1959 A collection of hominid skulls imgp1961 A preserved wooly rhino imgp1966 A stegosaurus skeleton imgp1970 The grand entrance imgp1971 A pinnacle of Victorian architecture imgp1972 Curious gargoyles perch up on the building imgp1974 A view of the carousel imgp1978 Harry's got a dinosaur head on a stick imgp1981 We head back to the station imgp1983 A pair of derelict restaurants imgp1985 More Victorian signage imgp1987 An illuminated greengrocers imgp1989 Gloucester Road imgp1990 A florist called Flowers Inc imgp1991 We're back on the underground imgp1993 Hyde Park Corner's original tiling imgp1994 Isobel on the tube train imgp1996 Liverpool Street Station and its information sign imgp1998 A view of the Liverpool Street concourse imgp1999 Outside on Bishopsgate imgp2000 We walk along platform 8