know any odd out of the way places in London?

Answer 1

Culture: the Sir John Soane museum, near Holborn. It is free, fabulous, and certainly odd! John Soane was of the 'cram it in, don't bother with a label' school of museum curating. http://www.soane.org/ World-class paintings (by Turner, Hogarth, Canaletto, Reynolds) that would be 'destination exhibits' in other museums are here stuffed behind folding panels and tucked into corners.

Bars: The Black Cap in Camden. All the tranny lip-synching you could ever want!

Park: Postman's Park off Aldersgate Road in the City. Most notable for its plaques celebrating ordinary people's valour. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/parks/9a.html

Railway: the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton (by Acton Town tube). Only open on special days - fabulous for small children, as well as for grown-up anoraks.

Answer 2

The Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret

Restored to its original condition, the operating theatre is as it was before the discovery of anaesthetics or antiseptics. Only the poor would be operated upon here, the rich would be treated at home on the kitchen table. At the time, the lack of knowledge about the spread of infection meant that 30% of their patients died within three days of an operation.

Today, you have to climb a narrow flight of steps to visit the belfry, and in an adjoining room the ancient banks of viewing stands are in semicircles around a wooden bed. The display shows how patients were blindfolded, gagged and bound to the operating table, and the box of sawdust underneath was used to sop up the blood.

The adjacent Herb Garret has displays showing the history of surgery and herbal medicine. One of the most important members of the hospital, the Apothecary, would use herbs from the hospital's garden or buy them in from outside.

They have various events during October, where you can see a demonstration of an operation without anaesthetics

Answer 3

Forget all the other answers - there is only ONE answer - that is "Highgate Cemetery". Obviously, in Highgate, North London, it is a very large graveyard run by a number of local volunteers. Half of it is still undercover from the ravages of nature, whilst the other half is open for guided walks at weekends. There are many famous people buried there, including Karl Marx. Its a must see, as too is the village of Highgate, plus you shouldn't see many tourists there. Its London's BEST kept secret - so keep it quiet!!

Answer 4

How about the William Morris museum in Walthamstow. Beautiful Arts and Crafts stuff in an out of the way part of London - plus you can experience the longest market in Britain while you're there!

Answer 5

loads. there's a little offshoot of hampstead heath, just to the west behind a house called 'jack straw's castle' (look on a map - you'll see it). it features an extremely long pergola you can walk through - v. pretty, romantic. in fact, loads of cool stuff to discover just by wandering around hampstead heath. the ruins of crystal palace are pretty cool - set in nice park in south london (crystal palace park). another one in the centre of town is the headquarters of the freemasons. it's a fantastic 1930s building which you can tour for free and see the main hall where they do all their weird rituals etc.it's on great queen st, near covent garden. so yeah, there's a few to be going on with...

Answer 6

I would recommend this site http://www.londonfreelist.com/home.asp

Its list free and unusual things to do in London.

This weekend for example, on Saturday the Oxo Tower is having an open event, Sunday is Apple Day in NW3

Answer 7

Dummy houses in Bayswater

Answer 8

the creaky cauldron, diagon alley and knockturn alley.

Answer 9

http://www.londontourist.org/AZ.html

try this link