Millwall
What to see
You’ll find accounts of local tourist attractions in Towns of Two Halves (and of 91 other places: order the book now for £8 from info@townsof2halves.co.uk). London’s tourist attractions are well covered in Visit London, Lonely Planet and Time Out. Links to places near Millwall are:
● Cutty Sark
● Fan Museum
● National Maritime Museum
● Old Royal Naval College
● Queen’s House
● Royal Observatory
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “Exhaustive research has failed to determine whether former poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who lived in Greenwich, walked east to Charlton Athletic or west to Millwall to enjoy top-class professional football.”
● “Turning left at the waterfront takes you Greenwich Pier and the Cutty Sark. The name of the famous tea clipper is a reference to an enchantress in Robert Burns’ poem Tam O’Shanter – a ‘sark’ is a chemise which, being ‘cutty’ or short, doesn’t cover much.”
● “English Heritage’s blue plaques feature the great and the good, but other organisations’ schemes ensure that the contributions of lesser mortals aren’t overlooked. Different London boroughs dip into the spectrum: green plaques in Westminster, maroon in Lewisham, brown in Hackney etc. Doug Mullins’ plaque appears in a Greenwich list that also features blue, white, black, maroon, green and grey plaques, plus one in the form of a piece of film for Bob Hope’s birthplace.”
These are taken from the 2019-updated Millwall chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.
