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Cheers

Terrific write up on the history of the arch

August 14, 2016

You really did manage to cover a lot of ground in a few days! Interesting info - something I knew nothing about.

July 19, 2016

Fabulous!

July 16, 2016

Great journalong and photo's! That steak sound YUM!

July 15, 2016

Love reading all your journaling! Great layout!

July 14, 2016

Beautiful!

July 14, 2016

Amazing! Love the history lesson and the photos

July 13, 2016

Didn't know all thst

July 13, 2016

Beautiful!

July 13, 2016

some history I didn't know! I have seen this and I love this area.

July 13, 2016

Page 536 - Volume Challenge - England

Marble Arch was designed in 1825 by John Nash as a ceremonial entrance to the courtyard of the new Buckingham Palace. He was rebuilding the palace from the former Buckingham House. The palace, as designed by Nash, was laid out around three sides of the courtyard, with the Marble Arch placed on its open eastern side.

Marble Arch stood in front of Buckingham Palace while the palace remained unoccupied, and for the most part unfinished, until it was hurriedly completed upon the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Within a few years the palace was found to be too small for the large court and the Queen's expanding family. The solution was to enlarge the palace by enclosing the cour d'honneur with a new east range and remove or relocate the Marble Arch.

The arch was dismantled and rebuilt as a ceremonial entrance at the northeast corner of Hyde Park at Cumberland Gate. The reconstruction was completed in March 1851. A popular story says that the arch was moved because it was too narrow for the Queen's state coach to pass through, but, in fact, the gold state coach passed under it during Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.

Originally the Marble Arch housed the royal constables of the Park and later the Metropolitan Police. After relocation of the arch, three small rooms inside the rebuilt arch were used as a fully functional police station from 1851 until at least 1968.

Historically, only members of the Royal Family and the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery are permitted to pass through the arch; this happens only in ceremonial processions.

By the time we finished sightseeing in London (the last few pictures and post cards are on the next two pages), it was late afternoon and we had seen everything we could cram into the past few days, and now we were starving. We love fish and chips, but we had been eating a steady diet of fish and chips and were ready for a big fat juicy steak! We jumped off the hop-on hop-off bus and took a city bus to Piccadilly Circus where we noticed a steakhouse a few days earlier. We shared a ribeye! YUM!