Visiting Greenwich/ Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Greenwich/ Carlos Pueblo

Greenwich village is an out skirt of Westminster, downtown London,

and is an harbor. There are several visiting points attracting to me

such as the old naval college, the national maritime museum, the old

Palace of Placentia, big church, Royal Observatory, and the Greenwich

Park etc. Almost everyone recommends Greenwich when I visit London.

even though I have been there twice already, there are still four memorials

which I still feel very strongly, Elizabeth I Memorial Museum, Nelson’s

National Maritime Museum, James Wolfe’s Statue up to the ill on the side of

The Royal Observatory, and the campus of old Naval College. The last is due

to a piece of movie about a naval battle between Japan and  Manchu China

in 1894, both nations’ leading admirals were trained at Greenwich Naval

College simultaneously.

A clipper, Cutty Sark, is on the river’s bank near by the train station. It’s

Very close to a corner of the old Naval College campus. I can see the school

Yard in that movie at the old Naval College. As a matter of fact that Japanese

Admiral, Toko Hebachiro, was also the one lead Japanese Navy defeating Tsar’s

Naval fleet. I have visited both sites of treaty, Portsmouth and Shinomoseki.

The old campus has been divided into the University of Greenwich and Trinity

College of Music, and the Maritime Museum in memory of Horatio Nelson,

hero of Trafalgar.

The story of Queen Elizabeth I is very dramatic, people call her Good Queen

Bess. Before her coronation at 25, she was declared illegitimate, been exile,

jailed at London Castle, accused of treason etc. Finally became the queen

because of her half-sister, Queen Mary, could not produce a successor.

44 years on the throne, she had had good share of luck and had been credited

on Spanish Armada’s victory, one of the decisive naval battle; the era of Elizabethan

literature due to William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Several years

ago, there was a movie about Shakespeare, the one who played Bess who stepped

on a muddy ground in order to watch Shakespeare’s show, won the best supporting

actress of that year.

The National Maritime Museum is honored by Nelson. It is a very completed collection

of British Naval history. Nelson died at the sea battle of Trafalgar, yet British Naval

defeated the united fleet of France and Spain. The Britain has been experienced so

many naval battles and there are paintings, arts work, weaponry, model ships etc.

the Britain work hard to describe the battles, the territory conquered, and their heroes.

All of these naval officers were from ranks and files. Horatio Nelson joined the navy at

13.

So was James Wolfe, who joined the army at 13 at Greenwich. The Britain

honor him at the hill top of Greenwich Park next to the Royal Observatory

with his statue observing Greenwich, the Palace, the Maritime Museum, the

harbor, and even London far away. Wolfe died at the decisive battle of Quebec.

He was 32. I was visiting Montreal, Quebec several years ago. I listened to an

old French guide describing both leading army figures erected at the Old

Montreal Square. 4 years ago, we I first reached the top of Greenwich, I

Read the story of Wolfe’s statue, I felt that I knew this person and with a

very passionate feeling to this kind of hero. I decide that I must come to

say hallo to him. A true man should be like him.