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Columbia Road Flower Market
8am-2pm
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Sunday
Afternoons
Speakers
Corner
12am
- Till Sunset
For over 150 years, Speaker's Corner has been one of London's most
unique and eccentric attractions. On any given Sunday morning, anyone
who has an opinion to air and anyone who will listen will gather at the
point where Oxford Street and Hyde Park meet. A visit to Speaker's
Corner will offer you a glimpse of London's real past, where Londoners
engage in earnest, open conversations that can quickly become loud and
contentious debates. There's no parliamentary procedure here, it's
freewheeling verbal contact and if you have a mind to, you're free to
take part. It is as open a forum as you are likely to see anywhere in
the world, a classless forum where one can really see grassroots
democracy at work.
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Bayswater Road Market 
Bayswater Road Market
South side of Bayswater Road, from Clarendon Place to Queensway , W2
Tube stations: Lancaster Gate, Queensway and Bayswater
Buses: 12, 70, 94 Sun 09.30-16.00
New paintings, drawings, etchings and crafts.
Bayswater
Road transforms itself into an outdoor art gallery, every Sunday, with
artists, painters and photographers displaying their ware on the
railings adjoining Kensington Gardens. Traders turn up early with cars
and vans packed to the brim with canvases and wet weather gear, whilst
the pavement fills up with American and German tourists who honestly
believe they are purchasing a piece of old Blighty. You can purchase
any manner of painting on this mile long stretch of railings, from oil,
watercolours, sketches and collages (think of 'Watercolour Challenge'
or your Gran's front room!).
Work
ranges from your typical London scenes, with Beefeaters and Big Ben
making regular appearances, English countryside scenes in pompous guilt
frames and countless pictures of fluffy dogs, colourful parrots and
kitsch kittens. For those of you who wish to have your portrait
recreated, a brief head and shoulders sketch will set you back £5,
whilst a full-length sketch is £15. Jewellery and sculpture are
probably the best bet for a little bit of creative inspiration.
Bayswater
market, does however boast a beautiful environment with Kensington
Gardens framing the (not so beautiful) art work, on a sunny Sunday
morning a stroll down Bayswater Road can be quite positively refreshing
- despite the unrelenting traffic.
Once
you have strolled the mile long gallery, swing into Hyde Park and make
a bee-line for Speakers' Corner, where you will be enlightened on
subjects such as religion, women's rights and the legalisation of
cannabis. This is a must for any local Londoner or tourist and provides
an hour of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. Speakers' corner has
been utilized as an area to exercise the right to free speech since
1872.
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The
Sunday Stroll
Every Sunday 2pm
We start from the Hyde Park Corner end of Serpentine Road.
The Stroll is
especially suitable for people who have not been on a street skate
before. You need to be able to turn and stop confidently, even on
a slight slope, but we keep the speed nice and slow. We�ll skate
about eight miles and we take two hours to do it (with a break in
the middle), getting back to Serpentine Road by 4.00pm.
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