Uma ungumlingisi wezincwadi zolimi lwesiNgisi, izindawo ezimbalwa zigcwele izikhumbuzo ezibhalwe phansi njengeLondon, ikhaya labo bonke abavela eShakespeare naseMilton baya eVirginia Woolf naseThi Eliot. Lezi zivakashi eziseLondon zibonisa izindawo ezimbalwa nje lapho ungaxhumana khona namaqhawe akho okubhala.
I-01 Spotting Blue Plaques ku-Tour Yakho yaseLondon
Njengoba ubeka lolu luhambo lwezincwadi lwaseLondon oluhamba phambili (okungenzeka ukuthi lufisa ukuthandaza ngelanga elilodwa), uzofuna ukubheka lezi zinhlamvu eziluhlaza okwesibhakabhaka (noma ngezikhathi ezithile) ezihlakazekile edolobheni. Kusukela ngo-1867, ama-plaques, ngokuzibandakanya okuhlukahlukene, abeke uphawu lwezimpawu zomlando ezihambisana nezibalo ezithintekayo zezombangazwe nezamasiko.
Ungase ufune i-plaque yomlobi othile noma ama-plaque kwiwebhusayithi yamaGugu esiNgisi, noma nje ugcine iso kubo. Ngaphakathi kwekhasi le-TS Eliot e-3 Kensington Court Gardens, isibonelo, ungabona izindawo zangaphambili zokuhlala zika-Ezra Pound (10 Kensington Church Walk), uWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (2 Palace Green) noJames Joyce (28 Campden Grove).
02 Westminster Abbey
Eyasungulwa ngu-Edward the Confessor ngo-1065, iWestminster Abbey inamaphekula kanye namathuna kuwo wonke umuntu ovela ku-Queen Elizabeth I eya eCharles Darwin. Yize isonto nama-cloisters kufanelekile ukuhlolisisa, abalobi bayodlalela kwi-Corner's Corner, e-South Transept. Lapha uzothola amathuna ezinkanyiso ezifana neChaucer, Browning, Dickens, no-Tennyson, phakathi kwabanye, kanye nezikhumbuzo eMilton, Keats, Shelley, Dylan Thomas, noHenry James.
Ukuze ufike eWestminster Abbey, thatha ithubhu eya eWestminster noma eSt. James's Park. Bheka indawo ye-Westminster Abbey ukuze uthole uhlu lwamamahora.
03 Foyle's Bookshop ku Charing Cross Road
Kusuka eWestminster, kuhamba kalula ku-Charing Cross indawo ye-Foyle's Bookshop (noma uthathe ithubhu ukuya eTottenham Court Road noma eLeicester Square). Eyasungulwa ngo-1903 ngabazalwane ababili abaye bahluleka ukuhlolwa kwezidingo zabo zomphakathi - futhi bamangazwa ukusabela esikhangisweni ababekwa bona bathengise izincwadi zabo - UFoyle ubelokhu kule ndawo kusukela ngo-1906. Izikhathi zifaka uSir Arthur Conan Doyle, GB Shaw, noWalt Disney; kuthiwa ukuthi u-Aleister Crowley ubelokhu ehlukumeza umnyango wemimoya.
Uma u-Foyle engakudli ukoma kwamabhuku okubhuka, phequlula abanye kuCharing Cross Road noma uqhubekele eHatchards, esitolo sezincwadi esidala kunazo zonke eLondon, kuyi-187 Piccadilly, noma i-Daunt Books, ne-Decor yayo e-Edwardian, ku-83-84 Maryleborne High Street.
04 Bloomsbury
Uma kubhekwa njengendawo encane ehloniphekile, iBloomsbury ingxenye enkulu idinga uVirginia Stephen - kamuva waba nguVirginia Woolf - nodadewabo uVanessa, owakhiwa iBloomsbury Group emzini wabo ku-46 Gordon Square.
UWoolf nomyeni wakhe, uLeonard, kamuva bagijima uHogarth Press, eyashicilela iWasteland, phakathi kwezinye izincwadi, ngaphandle kwamakhaya eTavistock Square naseMecklenburg Square. I-plaque yeqembu iye yakhiwe ku-50 Gordon Square; I-plaque yaseVirginia Woolf, enegama layo lentombazana, itholakala ku-29 Fitzroy Square. I-TS Eliot ine-plaque yesibili ku-24 Russell Square.
Nokho, kufanele kuqashelwe ukuthi iBloomsbury yayinokuphila kokubhala ngaphandle kukaVirginia Woolf. Phela, kuze kube yilapho nje, iLibritish yaseBrithani yayihlala eBritish Museum, edweba abalobi abaningi kanye nabacwaningi eminyakeni, kuhlanganise noKarl Marx, Gandhi noGeorge Bernard Shaw. I-museum iyaqhubeka nokugcina igumbi lokufunda elidala, namadokhumenti alo kanye nezihlalo zalo, nakuba lezi zincwadi ziye zafika endaweni yaseStan Pancras (echazwe kamuva).
Uma ungathanda ukungena emlandweni wakho wezincwadi kanye ne-pint, ugijimela e-Fitzroy Tavern e-16 eCharlotte Street, lapho abalobi abanjengoDylan Thomas noGeorge Orwell baxhomeke phakathi nempi phakathi kweMpi Yezwe I no-II.
I-Bloomsbury neFitzrovia, ikhaya le-Fitzroy, bobabili ukuhamba okulula ukusuka Charing Cross Road. Ngenye indlela, thatha ithubhu eya e-Goodge Street ku-Fitzroy, noma ku-Russell Square noma ku-Tottenham Court Road yeBloomsbury.
05 I-Dickens House
Ukuhamba kusuka eBloomsbury kuya eBritish Library, abalandeli bakaCharles Dickens bazofuna ukuyeka ema-48 Doughty Street, ikhaya likaCharles Dickens kusukela ngo-1837 kuya ku-1839 futhi manje sekuyimyuziyamu. Lapha, uDickens wabhala u-Oliver Twist futhi wagcwalisa ama -Pickwick Papers . Uthi ungumlando wokugcina waseLondon osendlini yenanveli, indlu iqukethe isifundo sakhe, imibhalo yesandla, ifenisha yangempela, nezinye izinto zangasese.
Thatha ithubhu eya eRussell Square, Chancery Lane, noma Holborn. Bheka isayithi leMyuziyamu ngamahora kanye nemali yokungena.
06 iBritish Library
Kusuka emnyuziyamu weDickens House, ukuya enyakatho kuya ku-96 Euston Road, indawo yeBritish Library (ithubhu eya esiteshini sase King's Cross / St Pancras, esiteshini sase-Euston, noma esiteshini sase-Euston Square), ikhaya lezinto ezingaphezu kwezigidi eziyi-150, kuhlanganise nemibhalo yesandla yaseYane U-Austen, iBrontës, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, noJames Joyce, phakathi kwamanye amaningi. Umtapo wezincwadi uhlanganisa neziteshi ezivumela abasebenzisi ukuba bathole amakhophi e-elektroniki wemibhalo yesandla engavamile, kuhlanganise no- Alice Carroll's original Adventures Under Ground kanye ne-notebook kaWilliam Blake. Kubathandi bezincwadi, zikhona amahora omuhle, mnandi we-nerdy okufanele abe khona lapha.
Ukuze uthole imininingwane emayelana nokubamba kwelabhulali, uhlu lwamahora ayo, nolunye ulwazi lokuhamba, bheka iphrofayli yeBritish Library.
07 Bunhill Fields
Uma usuku luhle kakhulu, iBunhill Fields, emgodini we-Islington - hhayi kude kakhulu neBrithani Library - kufanelekile ukuvakashelwa. Kuze kube ngu-1854, le mathuna yayiyindawo yokuphumula yokugcina yama-nonconformists engokwenkolo njengamaQuaker namaPuritan, angazange angcwatshwe emathuneni eSonto laseNgilandi. Eyaziwa ngokuthi "abaphikisi" iWestminster Abbey, "iBunhill Fields ibamba izikhumbuzo zikaWilliam Blake noDaniel Defoe, kanye nethuneni likaJohn Bunyan. Abantu baqhubeka ukushiya amanothi nezimbali kuWilliam Blake; phezulu kwetshe limbozwe amapeni. Abalandeli bakaMilton bazofuna ukuhamba ngaphansi kweBunhill Row, owehla ngasentshonalanga yamathuna: imbongi imbhali i- Paradise Lost ngenkathi ihlala lapha.
Ngaphandle komlando wayo wombhalo, uBunhill Fields othukuthele unikeza ukukhululeka edolobheni elihle kakhulu - nasezindaweni ezihehayo zokuvakasha. Lapha usuke uthola amathuba okuthola abasebenzi baseDolobheni bedla kwasemini kunezivakashi.
Thatha ithubhu eya ku-Old Street; abahamba ngezinyanga abaqashile bayaqaphela ukuthi amathuna avaliwe ngo-4: 00 ntambama ezinyangeni zokuwa nasebusika.
08 St. Giles, Cripplegate
Ukuhamba ku-Barbican kusuka eBunhill Fields, uzothola iSt. Giles, Cripplegate. Yize leli sonto limile iminyaka engama-600 kuphela (ngokuvuselelwa okukhulu emva komlilo we-1545 neMpi Yezwe II), uhlobo oluthile lwesonto lumile kule ndawo cishe iminyaka eyinkulungwane. UBen Jonson noDaniel Defoe babhapathizwa lapha; bobabili uShakespeare noJohn Bunyan kuthiwa bangamalungu esonto. Kunezikhumbuzo eziningana esontweni kuJohn Milton, owangcwatshwa lapha ngo-1674. (Futhi iMumyuziyamu yaseLondon esiseduze kakhulu, ikakhulukazi kulabo asebevele babone iminyuziyamu emikhulu yaseLondon futhi bafuna ukufunda okwengeziwe ngomlando womuzi .)
Ukuze ufike eSt. Giles, i-Cripplegate, thatha ithubhu eya ku-Barbican noma i-Moorgate.
09 I-Globe Theatre kaShakespeare
Ukusuka eSt. Giles, eningizimu ngaseSt. Paul kuya eMillennium Bridge. Njengoba uwela iThames ukuya eBhange kanye neTate Modern kwi-Millennium Footbridge, uzobona isithombe esilungile ngokomlando we-Elizabethan ebaluleke kakhulu: I-Globe kaShakespeare. Umenzi wefilimu waseMelika u-Sam Wanamaker wanikela ngemali yokwakhiwa kwendawo yaseshashalazini, eyakhiwa esakhiweni semidlalo yaseshashalazini yokuqala ngo-1997. Ngaphakathi, imibukiso ichaza izindlela nezindlela ezisetshenziselwa kokuqala kanye nomdwebo. Ngaphandle kwalokho, izinkambo eziqondisiwe ziqala njalo imizuzu engu-15-30 kulo lonke usuku, ngaphandle kwehlobo, lapho ukusebenza kwe-matinee kuvimbela ukuvakasha kwe-ntambama.
I-Southwark Cathedral
Kusukela e-Globe, hamba empumalanga ngaphesheya kweSouth Bank kuya eSouthwark Cathedral, esontweni elidala kunazo zonke laseGothic laseLondon (ezinye izingxenye ze-cathedral kusukela ngekhulu le-12). Njengesonto eliseduzane esifundeni sokuqala seLondon, akumangalisi ukuthi uShakespeare wayekhulekela eNingizimu Karkhedral. Ngaphakathi kukhona isikhumbuzo ebaleni, lakhiwa ngo-1912, futhi i-cathedral inomsebenzi wesabatha waseShakespeare unyaka ngamunye. NjengeBunhill Fields, izizinda zamabhishobhi zinikeza indawo enhle yokuphumula ekuvuseleleni kwedolobha.
Futhi uma usulungele, hamba ukuphuza isiphuzo noma ukudla okufanelekile, okutholakala kalula eNingizimu Bank. Noma, bukela phezulu kuleso sifundo ebusuku ku- Time Out , bese ususelwa ukuze ubone ukuthi abalobi baseBrithani abaphila ngodaba lwabo besafunda yini.