(Not-So-) Wordless Wednesday: Mom's 1953 Europe Road Trip - London

From Mom's Europe trip diary, in the "PLACES VISITED" section:

August 12, 13, 14, 15 – London [4 pages, excerpt only for this day]

[Aug. 13] The next morning we got up – got our free breakfast – walked through Berkeley Sq. to Green Park and thence to Buckingham. From there we went over to Parliament, took a ride down the Thames River to Tower Bridge – then walked back to hotel through Trafalgar Sq. & Oxford Circus.

Here are some photos of these places - four of which were taken by my mother:

Berkeley Square evening December 2005 / Justinc / CC BY-SA 2.0

Green Park, London, England / ChrisO / CC BY-SA 3.0

Buckingham Palace from gardens, London, UK - Diliff / Diliff  / CC BY-SA 3.0

Palace of Westminster, meeting place of Parliament, 13 August 1953 / Geraldine Guokas Pape / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Thames River and Tower Bridge, 13 August 1953 / Geraldine Guokas Pape / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Nelson's statue at Trafalgar Square, 13 August 1953 / Geraldine Guokas Pape / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Decorations on The Mall in London remaining after the June 2 coronation of Elizabeth II, 13 August 1953
/ Geraldine Guokas Pape / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

East on Oxford Street at Oxford Circus, 17 June 1949 / Ben Brooksbank / CC-BY-SA-2.0

This is the seventh in a series of posts about my mother's 1953 Europe Trip.

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