Day Twenty Eight.

This was a good day and a bad day. Lets get the bad, which is not too bad, out of the way first. I set out to visit the Hogarth museum, dedicated as you would expect to the works of William Hogarth. It's a long way out from the centre of London. I found the appropriate tube station, traveled all the way out there, and had some difficulty finding the museum. I retreated to a cafe and over a cup of coffee, consulted the guide book and on closer reading found that the house is closed! (read the guidebook more carefully Dave.)
(http://www.hiddenlondon.com/hoghouse.htm).
Back into town for the Handel Museum in Brook street, I arrived at the street corner. Which way to go, toss of coin so turned right. Clearly not the right choice, and consulting the book told me it was No. 25 (Read the guidebook more carefully Dave!). The museum takes up number 25 and a couple of floors of number 23 (Jimi Hendrix used to live there.). Again it was suggested I watched a video. This was purpose made for the museum and was as good as the Dickens one had been bad. The Museum celebrates Handel's life and works, displaying portraits of Handel and his contemporaries in finely restored Georgian interiors.
By now it was late lunch time and I must have found the worst pub in central London so there will be no lunch bulletin today. I headed over to St Pancras to visit the British Library. A number of important works are on display to the general public in a gallery called the
Sir John Ritblat Gallery which is open to the public seven days a week at no charge. Some of the treasures visitors can see in the Gallery include the Magna Carta, Captain Cook's journal, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', 'Beowulf', Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway', Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground', Jane Austen's 'History of England', Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories, Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur' (King Arthur), Charles Dickens' 'Nicholas Nickleby'. There are also scores by famous musicians and a collection of Beatles memorabilia. A day which started off poorly finished brilliantly.