Greenwich : The Place Where Days Begin and End

There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. From Maritime Greenwich—home of the Maritime Museum and the Cutty Sark—to Royal Greenwich, where Greenwich Park served as Henry VIII's favourite residence and the place where he met Anne Boleyn, this extraordinary location has shaped British history for centuries.

Scientific Greenwich houses the Royal Observatory and GMT, marking the place where days begin and end. And then there's the Dome itself—a monument to millennial ambition that invites comparison with vast jamborees of the past, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951.

What is that strange fabric stretched over those yellow spikes? And who is going to settle in the 1400-home Millennium Village, opened in 2000, with the remains of old gasworks lying just a couple of feet below? This is Greenwich: a place where past, present and future collide in the most fascinating ways.