Thanks for the info. I'll be going to London later this year so I'm collecting any info that I can.
If anyone has any tips for a first time traveller to London I'd love to hear them, (especially about cheap places to eat). Feel free to email me off list if you like. Thank you. Onaree Jean Barrett wrote: > > Good morning All, > I have just come back from a quick weekend visit to London and would > like to comment quickly on this before posing a question. I did some of > the touristy things on Saturday and Sunday, the London Eye, ( > brilliant) The Buckingham Palace tour (fabulous) then on Monday before > the train home, some serious shopping. Liberty's is being refurbished > and it's amazing fabric department is a shadow of it's former self. I > walked round in 2 minutes and was so shocked and disappointed I walked > out again. Keep the memories. I hope it might recover again but who > knows. > If anyone is going to London in the next month or so then a visit to > the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace and the Queens gallery is well > worth while though. Along with the chance to see the paintings and > decorations which are usually in place, there is a special show of > paintings connected with the coronation, 50 years ago this year) and > including the Queens coronation dress and robe. Beautiful. I also noted > a large painting of Queen Victoria in her coronation robes. It is by > George Hayter and the dress itself intrigued me. Was it lace? or could > it be embroidered fabric? like Ayeshire work perhaps. I have been > trying to find out about it since with no luck. Has anyone any > information about this dress at all? I couldn't find a picture of it to > buy either, although there is a small copy in the guide book. They did > have a rather nice card reproducing a painting of Queen Alexandra when > she was princess of Wales, wearing a large Honiton(? )collar. > Jean in Cleveland U.K. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Proud list mom of Irish Crochet Lovers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish_Crochet_Lovers/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
