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Hyde Park Corner & Constitution Hill. After stopping there couple hours went home, arriving 8.15 pm, as Uncle Charlie was not too well.
16.12.18
Recd 12 letters this morning – 5 from Mother, 2 from Muriel, 2 from Uncle Jim, 1 each from Mrs Brown, Dick Luse and Ida; last from home dated Oct 13th. Walked to Charing Cross to Shipping Coy & got number of the berth. When having dinner at Anzac Buffet met Barrett who was in Bourke. He only arrived over from France on Saturday & is working in clothing store at Horseferry Rd. Have to meet him on Wednesday. Met Bruce Hutton at 1.30 pm & we walked to Natural History Museum same way as I went yesterday. We put in the afternoon there, leaving at 4.30 pm. Coming back we walked along Brompton Rd to Knightsbridge passing Harrods & seeing their display. Then got 46 bus in Sloane St & came to Victoria via Pimlico Rd & then had tea at Anzac Buffet. At museum saw skeletons of well-known stallions "Persimmon" & "St Simon". After tea we went to social in Tothill Rd & stopped there till 9.30 pm.
17.12.18
After breakfast wrote to Uncle Jim & Mrs Brown from the War Chest Club. After dinner went to Science Museum & there saw Watt's first engine erected 1788. Sanspareil locomotive built in 1829, Rocket built 1829, engine of the Comet 1811, the original experimental