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While all the Footprints of London Guides agree that they prefer to be talking about London history outside on the street, they love London museums too (many are guides at museums too). Here are 10 of\u00a0the teams favourite objects in the collections of London Museums. <\/span><\/p>\n

1 Prince Frederick’s Barge in the National Maritime Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prince Frederick’s Barge – picture copyright Neil Sinclair<\/p><\/div>\n

Neil Sinclair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Among my favourite museum objects is Prince Frederick’s barge at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich<\/a>. The largest object on regular display at the museum, it symbolises extravagance, elegance and elitism while embodying exquisite craftsmanship.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 19 metre (63 ft) long\u00a0vessel was built on the banks of the River Thames opposite Whitehall in 1732 for Frederick Prince of Wales, eldest son of King George II. Designed by architect, painter and landscape gardener William Kent, the state barge was built by John Hall. It features superbly executed carvings by James Richards who succeeded Grinling Gibbons in 1721 as wood carver to the king. The magnificently gilded barge, which was rowed by up to 21 oarsmen, was the largest and\u00a0fastest barge on the River Thames. It was deliberately made bigger and swifter than even the king’s barge and was symbolic of the intense rivalry, occasionally spilling over into outright loathing, that characterised this dysfunctional father\/son relationship. Art and music loving Frederick first used the barge to himself, his mother, his mother Queen Caroline and his five sisters from Chelsea Hospital to Somerset House to inspect the cleaning of the royal collection of paintings. It was last used on royal duty by\u00a0Prince Albert in 1849 for the\u00a0opening of the new Coal Exchange.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Prince Frederick’s barge, the 18th century equivalent of a stretch limo, was once a familiar sight on the Thames. It’s permanently grounded at Greenwich but Footprints of London customers can enjoy the liquid history and splendour of London’s riverside life during our spring Riverwalks Festival<\/a> (16th April to 4th May inclusive). Look out for details of the festival programme within the next few weeks.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2 Sir Paul Pinder’s House at The Victoria and Albert Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Sir Paul Pindar’s House in the V&A<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dave Brown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sir Paul Pinder’s House at the V&A<\/a> which I love – partly because of it’s size, and partly because it reminds me of William Shakespeare – he would have known the building (newly built) as he walked into the City to and from Shoreditch (and indeed, Footprints of London covers the same route on our Shakespeare in Shoreditch walk).<\/span><\/p>\n

3 Models of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at the Museum of the Order of St John<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre<\/p><\/div>\n

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I nominate the souvenir models of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which can be found in the Order Gallery at the Museum of the Order of St John<\/a>. This was not your usual souvenir and was produced \u00a0in the 17th Century in Bethlehem for rich travellers. It’s made of Syrian maple, mother of pearl and ivory. The roofs lift off to show the interior lay-out. The real church was built in the 1130s with no expense spared to link the sites of Christ’s death and resurrection which were separate sites on\u00a0two sides of a courtyard. The result was the greatest shrine church ever built and the model conveys some of its grandeur<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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4 Lord Uxbridge\u2019s false leg at the Household Cavalry Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m nominating Lord Uxbridge\u2019s false leg in the Household Cavalry Museum<\/a><\/span> which replaced the one he lost at the Battle of Waterloo where he is reputed<\/span> to have said\u00a0 \u201cBy God Sir! I\u2019ve lost my leg!\u201d\u00a0 To which the Duke of<\/span> Wellington supposedly replied \u201cBy God Sir! So you have!\u201d. This story is often told as an example of British stiff upper lip – resolve in the most extreme of circumstances. However it is possible that Wellington’s apparent lack of concern was due to Uxbridge having an affair with Wellington’s sister in law. Other accounts of the wounding say Wellington came to Uxbridge’s aid. Either way the false leg illustrates the ferocity of the Battle of Waterloo – with senior staff officers in the thick of the action.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I will be looking more at the legacy of the Battle of Waterloo on my walk The Battle\u00a0<\/a><\/span>of Waterloo Remembered<\/a> on 18th June<\/span><\/div>\n
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5 Joseph Highmore Engravings At Tate Britain<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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IX: Pamela is Married 1743-4 Joseph Highmore 1692-1780 Purchased 1921 http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/work\/N03575<\/p><\/div>\n

Jill Finch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Four paintings by Joseph Highmore in Tate Britain<\/a> – a selection from a series of 12 illustrations Highmore created in 1743 to tell the story of Samuel Richardson’s novel ‘Pamela or Virtue Rewarded’<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Highmore (1692 \u2013 1780) was a British painter whose name is sometimes linked with Hogarth\u2019s as one of the initiators of a British school of narrative painting (his work is, however, considered less boisterous and satirical and more refined \u2013 so nothing like Hogarth really then!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Published in 1740 \u2018Pamela\u2019 was considered the first real English novel and was a best seller at the time, going into 5 printings (the \u201850 Shades of Grey\u2019 of its day?)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pamela is a beautiful 15 year old maidservant who catches the eye of the son of the house. She repulses his attempts to seduce her and her virtue wins out as the would be rake recognises her goodness and proposes marriage instead. (Then poor Pamela just has to deal with the disapproval of all her bridegroom\u2019s friends and relations). The title says it all and the novel had a huge influence on the way women were portrayed in novels for years to come \u2013 if girls are good then they get the ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richardson had a printing establishment in Dorset Court near Salisbury Court (off Fleet Street) where it is said he employed Oliver Goldmsith as a proof reader. Highmore and Richardson were friends and the artists painted several portraits of author.<\/span><\/p>\n

I always think of the series as an early graphic novel and talk about them during my Print and the Press : Exploring Fleet Street<\/em><\/strong><\/a> walk.<\/span><\/p>\n

6 Foundling Tokens at the Foundling Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tracey Emin, Mitten – outside the Foundling Museum<\/p><\/div>\n

Jenni Bowley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Foundling Museum<\/a> in Brunswick Square is slightly off the beaten track, but well-worth any detour.\u00a0 It recounts the stories of the children taken in by the Foundling Hospital (properly known as The Hospital for the Education and Maintenance of\u00a0 Exposed and Deserted Young Children) which was established by Capt Thomas Coram in 1741.\u00a0 Coram was not a wealthy man, but he worked tirelessly for nearly 20 years to obtain a charter from the King and raise sufficient funds to open the hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It quickly became apparent that most of the hundreds of babies abandoned on the streets of London each year were not unloved, but given up out of poverty and despair and a lottery system was developed to select the lucky babies from among the vast numbers brought to the hospital by desperate mothers.\u00a0 When the babies were admitted the hospital kept a record of any \u201cparticular writing\u201d or \u201cpeculiar thing\u201d that was left with the child, as an identifier in case the child was later claimed.\u00a0 These objects have become known as \u201ctokens\u201d because they were seen as tokens of love.\u00a0 At the time of the child\u2019s admission these letters or tokens were carefully sealed in small packets with records of the child\u2019s number and date of admission \u2013 but many of the tokens were removed in the 1850s and 1860s and put on display and it has taken painstaking work to trace their original owners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the identifiers were written items, or items that could be divided in half \u2013 with one half kept by the parent.\u00a0 But one of the most poignant tokens is a hazelnut \u2013 an item with no monetary value, the only thing that the child\u2019s mother was able to leave as an identifier.\u00a0 The child who was left with this token has not yet been identified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Foundling Museum works with contemporary artists and has a range of changing exhibitions.\u00a0 This picture is of a sculpture by Tracey Emin which captures the feeling of loss and desolation of the grieving mothers \u2013 look for it on the railing outside the Museum, close to the statue of Thomas Coram.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jenni Bowley is a founder member and course director of the Camden Tour Guides Association.\u00a0 Please contact her for information on the Foundling Museum or on walks around the Borough of Camden.\u00a0 Her next walk is Walking the Hidden River Fleet<\/a> on March 29th<\/span><\/p>\n

7 Selfridges Lift Door – Museum of London<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Selfridges lift door Museum of London<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Selfridges lift was one of several installed in Selfridges department store in 1928. The bronze screen and doors incorporate signs of the Zodiac, and the internal panels feature bird designs. The metal decorative panels in the interior of the lift are the work of Edgar William Brandt (1886-1960), while the exterior screens were made by the Birmingham Guild of Metalworkers. They are on display at the Museum of London<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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You can hear more about the history of West End Stores on Stephen’s regular Mr Selfridge<\/a> walks <\/span><\/div>\n
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8 Bust of Lenin Islington Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Bust of Vladimir Lenin Islington museum<\/p><\/div>\n

Jiff Bayliss<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The bust of Lenin was designed to be\u00a0the centrepiece of a memorial designed\u00a0by the modernist architect Berthold Lubetkin\u00a0the architect of \u00a0a number of buildings for Finsbury Borough Council.\u00a0The memorial in Holford Square – looking across at the location of the house where Lenin once lived, was built in 1942 when Britain and Russia were allies in World War Two. The bust proved highly controversial after the war though, and was vandalised so had to be moved to Islington Town Hall. Here it was again attacked, being covered in red paint. There is also a legend that\u00a0Lubetkin buried the bust in Holford Square after being told to rename one of his buildings Bevin Court rather than Lenin Court, this seems unlikely since the bust is now on permanent display in Islington Museum<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jiff is working with\u00a0Islington Museum on a new walk looking at Berthold Lubetkin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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9 John Harrison Marine Chronometers at the Royal Observatory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rob Smith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Here is an object with a real global impact. Sailors had struggled with the problem of calculating longitude for centuries.\u00a0By the 16th century it was realised that if the precise time could be known the longitudinal position could be calculated from the relative positions of the Moon and Mars. However existing clocks were large and relied upon a pendulum that\u00a0would not work on a ship at sea. In 1714 the \u00a0British government announced a prize for the first clock that would work at sea. Clockmaker John Harrison made solving this problem his whole life’s work, despite facing opposition from the established clockmakers. You can find out more about the story at a new gallery opening in March at the Royal Observatory Greenwich<\/a> Solving this problem made navigation much more easy, opening up long global trade routes – if you want to see an object that begins globalisation go and see Harrison’s chronometers!<\/span><\/p>\n

10\u00a0A Rakes Progress at the Sir John Soane Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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William Hogarth – A Rake’s Progress<\/p><\/div>\n

Jill Finch<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

William Hogarth<\/strong>\u00a0(1697 \u2013 1764)\u00a0was born in Smithfield he painted the murals in the north wing of St Bartholomew\u2019s Hospital as well as several narrative painting series\u2019 \u2013 The Harlot\u2019s Progress, Marriage a la Mode and The Rake\u2019s Progress. This last tile is housed in the Sir John Soane Museum<\/a> in Lincoln\u2019s Inn Fields \u2013 which is practically an exhibit in itself. Eccentric doesn\u2019t even begin to describe the place and if you go there simply to see the Hogarth paintings you can end up feeling a bit like Alice when she fell down the rabbit hole.\u00a0Navigating the stairs and corridors filled with all the things John Soane collected over the years you ask directions and are told to go the Picture room. If, like me, you are expecting something on the lines of a normal gallery, then you probably walk round in a circle and have to ask again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you realise it\u2019s that little room with quite a few people already inside, you squeeze yourself in, hopefully in time to witness the Soane guide open the cupboard. The series of paintings is not displayed on the wall it is hidden away and the official description of this intriguing storage space is \u2018movable planes\u2019 \u2013 I still think of it as a cupboard.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The guide then runs through the story of young Tom Rakewell who inherits a fortune when his father dies.\u00a0He then manages to spend it in ways that offer Hogarth the opportunity to satirise practically every walk of 18th<\/sup> C London life \u2013 ending up a pauper in Bedlam<\/span><\/p>\n

I talk about Hogarth in my Smithfield walk \u2013 The Market and the Monastery<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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