London, Day 4

The London Transport Museum is full of buses, trains, carriages, a taxi, and at least one bicycle.  It is an extremely popular destination for kindergarten field trips, we discovered.  I liked this part of a train:

I particularly liked the temporary exhibit they have on right now about wartime.  During the Great War, a bunch of London buses were shipped over to the continent where they served as ambulances, trucks, and troop transports.  Women also began to work on the various transit options while the men were off fighting.  The photos and artifacts are amazingly evocative.

From there, Brent and I continued on to the Museum of London.  Its exhibits begin with London before it was London and continue through the present day.  London has had quite a ride from prehistory through Roman conquest, plague, civil war, fire, and upheavals like the crazy idea of giving votes to women because we are, you know, people:

On the way back to the hotel, we passed part of the Roman wall that surrounded the London of the times:

Tonight, Brent is going to work, so I am off to Shakespeare’s Globe to see a play called Pitcairn.  Will report more tomorrow!