Today we toured the oldest and most famous Cricket ground in the world, the home of cricket, Lord's.
Lord's is owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of the Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board and the European Cricket Council. It cost £9 each for the tour as seniors (£15 for adults so that was quite a saving). The tour took 2 hours.
No photographs were allowed anywhere inside the buildings. There were many portraits of famous players hanging on the walls of the rooms in the old pavilion including "The Don".
The place is steeped in tradition, so when a couple of the Indian members of our tour group put their feet onto the turf to get their photos taken by their mates all hell broke loose. The whole group had been clearly told that is was sacred ground and not to touch it. Fortunately, standing next to the grassed area for photos was the last event on the tour itinerary as the tour leader screamed at them and said the tour was over and they had ruined it for future tours as they would now put a fence up to keep people like them from doing such a thing again.
Apart from that the tour was excellent. Because there were no matches on we had access to all areas and the tour guide was passionate and very knowledgeable about all things cricket and particularly the Lord's ground.
One of the light towers. The area around the ground houses lots of posh people like Doctors and Barristers who took Lord's to court to stop them putting up the light towers as they claimed it destroyed their view. After months of court cases a compromise was reached whereby the light towers had to have telescopic extension stands at great expense so that they could be lowered when not in use.
Lyn touching the grass cuttings from cut from the oval.
Lyn overlooking the ground with the Pavilion in the background
The new Media Centre
The cost of fuel in the UK. Obviously it varies slightly between petrol stations as it does in Aus. The price is in pounds and pence equivalent to $2.15/L for regular unleaded at 62p to the $A.
After Lord's we headed off to the St John's Wood tube station to catch the train to Notting Hill Gate which is just down the road from Portobello Road. Portobello Road is famous for it's markets and we wore ourselves out walking through the streets looking at all manner of goods. Lyn found many stalls to her liking and made the odd purchase so we had to walk home!
After the markets we decided to do something different for tea and grabbed a burger at Maccas before heading off to the tube station for the journey home.
We had a great day and the weather was much warmer than yesterday which was freezing cold, raining and windy and caused us to stay home all day.
Lord's is owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of the Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board and the European Cricket Council. It cost £9 each for the tour as seniors (£15 for adults so that was quite a saving). The tour took 2 hours.
No photographs were allowed anywhere inside the buildings. There were many portraits of famous players hanging on the walls of the rooms in the old pavilion including "The Don".
The place is steeped in tradition, so when a couple of the Indian members of our tour group put their feet onto the turf to get their photos taken by their mates all hell broke loose. The whole group had been clearly told that is was sacred ground and not to touch it. Fortunately, standing next to the grassed area for photos was the last event on the tour itinerary as the tour leader screamed at them and said the tour was over and they had ruined it for future tours as they would now put a fence up to keep people like them from doing such a thing again.
Apart from that the tour was excellent. Because there were no matches on we had access to all areas and the tour guide was passionate and very knowledgeable about all things cricket and particularly the Lord's ground.
One of the light towers. The area around the ground houses lots of posh people like Doctors and Barristers who took Lord's to court to stop them putting up the light towers as they claimed it destroyed their view. After months of court cases a compromise was reached whereby the light towers had to have telescopic extension stands at great expense so that they could be lowered when not in use.
Lyn touching the grass cuttings from cut from the oval.
Lyn overlooking the ground with the Pavilion in the background
The new Media Centre
The cost of fuel in the UK. Obviously it varies slightly between petrol stations as it does in Aus. The price is in pounds and pence equivalent to $2.15/L for regular unleaded at 62p to the $A.
After Lord's we headed off to the St John's Wood tube station to catch the train to Notting Hill Gate which is just down the road from Portobello Road. Portobello Road is famous for it's markets and we wore ourselves out walking through the streets looking at all manner of goods. Lyn found many stalls to her liking and made the odd purchase so we had to walk home!
After the markets we decided to do something different for tea and grabbed a burger at Maccas before heading off to the tube station for the journey home.
We had a great day and the weather was much warmer than yesterday which was freezing cold, raining and windy and caused us to stay home all day.
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