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Shell 'Form' Visits London

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In September, the fourteen Shell 'Form' groups boarded three coaches for an educational visit to London. Each group completed a guided tour of the British Museum designed to provide an overview of the early history of human civilisation across the Earth's continents. They also visited a variety of important sites in the city that have marked it out as one of the centres of world economy and culture over the past 300 years.
 
 

 

A Cultural Perspective

The trip included the London 'Circular Cruise', leaving from the ticket office at Westminster Pier and travelling up the river as far as the Tower of London.

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In this way, the truly famous architectural sights of London could be enjoyed the way the people who built them intended - as seen from the river.

The guided tour in the British Museum included Assyrian and Egyptian sculpture, the Balawat Gate, the Rosetta Stone, the Nereid Monument and Parthenon Galleries, the Great Court Reading room, the 'Living and Dying' exhibition, the Enlightenment Gallery and the Amaravati Sculpture Gallery.

Within the day, there was 'free time' for each Form of twelve pupils to visit other sites of interest under the tutelage of their Form teacher. Popular locations included Westminster and Whitehall, the National and Tate galleries and St Paul's Cathedral.