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ELTHAM PALACE

A chef-d'ouvre of contemporary design, it shows on a large scale the splendour and vavavoom of 1930's style. Completely renovated by English Heritage, Eltham Palace displays in a marvellous way the smart and glamorous lifestyle of the people who did it - Stephen and Virginia Courtauld.

In 1933 the place was given for rent to Stephen Courtauld, who developd a modern house at the Great Hall. The building was richly decorated in a variety of styles, with biggest influence from Art Deco but without forgetting historical and classical elements.

In the Middle Ages Eltham Palace played an important role as regal palace, a loved distination where successive monarchs spent some holidays and went hunting. Edward IV ordered the magnificent Great Hall, which is restored nowadays, with its soaring hammerbeam roof and oriel windows.

SEVERNDROOG CASTLE.

It is absolutely awesome-looking enromous building - an 18-metre high triangular folly, designed and constructed in 1784 by the wife of Sir William James (England is the country where women were emancipated the earliest!), in memory of her husband's.
The owner of this majestic place is Greenwich City Council.
There is a Tourist Info Centre, libraries, and a couple of communal institutions in it.
Don't miss it!