Robinson's Quest

London West End

Ten stops around the West End, finishing where it starts. Lions that turned up twenty-four years after the column they guard, a Shakespeare that is a copy of a monument in Westminster Abbey, a sundial pillar put up in 1989, a London street that borrowed its nickname from a street in New York, a Tudor cottage built in the 1920s to hide a garden shed, and a mock-Tudor department store made out of two scrapped warships. This is the district that dresses up — a walk through London's grandest borrowed clothes and the real stories underneath them. About four kilometres and a little over two hours.