West Ham
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 nearer to the Olympic Park are:
● Hackney City Farm
● Museum of the Home (known as the Geffrye; closed until September 2020)
● V&A Museum of Childhood
● Wire & Sky
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “The man at the turnstile may have had a drink. In admittedly indifferent light he took D, who was not tall, to be a small boy and said: ‘You just hop over the turnstile, son, you’ll be all right.'”
● “As the first half progressed the suspicion grew that our friend on the turnstile may have mistaken rather a lot of people for small boys.”
● “The Geffrye feels less like a museum, more like a particularly well-appointed hotel into which you would make a booking if you could.”
These are taken from the West Ham chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.
