Cutty Sark

Some more photos of Cutty Sark.  Here's one older ones.

Greenwich Park

Some photos from Greenwich park.

The Royal Observatory at dusk

Greenwich College

More photos of Greenwich College.

Greenwich College and the green laser that marks the meridian from the Royal Observatory

Cutty Sark in Greenwich

This amazing Tea Clipper has an amazing story, specially built to bring back tea from China - it was one of the fastest ships in it's day.  Later when steam ships came into service, Cutty Sark was used to bring wool from Australia and later used as a training ship.  Finally it was brought to Greenwich as a museum piece and in 2008 after refurbishing it burned down.  Now in 2012 it was rebuilt on a special platform - hanging in mid air, with a cafe under the ship.

Royal Observatory in Greenwich

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has trove of history, including setting the standards for units of measurement and also making astronomical observations discoveries.

As you can see in the photos, the definition of a foot, yard, longitude and time was defined here.  Later when the international organizations standard were developing the ISO standards, Paris got the measurement of length and weight (with meter and gram as the base units) and Greenwich got to keep time (GMT) and Longitude (latitude is measured with the angle of sun and stars, but longitude is a man made measurement)

A childhood dream to stand along this line

Painted Hall of Greenwich

It's amazing to think that this was designed as a mess-hall for retirees of the Royal Navy.

And the stories goes that this was not enough for them...