{"id":1838,"date":"2013-10-02T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:31:16","slug":"derry-toms-roof-gardens-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"Derry &#038; Toms Roof Gardens, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7894.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7894.jpg\" alt=\"Moorish roof garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7894.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7894-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n (Visited as part of &#8220;Open House London.&#8221;)<br \/>\nThe Roof Gardens are best known to older visitors as the former Derry &#038; Toms roof gardens, but have since 1981 been leased by Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Group and are known as the Roof Gardens and Babylon Restaurant.<br \/>\nThe Gardens are spectacular, with three themed gardens, Moorish themed structures, a stream and ponds, and resident flamingoes and ducks.<br \/>\nThe Gardens were listed as a Grade II site by English Heritage in 1978.<br \/>\nThe Roof Gardens and Babylon Restaurant and nightclub has its own website with pictures.<br \/>\nThe public can visit the Gardens free of charge when they are not required for a function. They are accessible from Derry Street, through a doorway marked &#8220;99 Kensington High Street&#8221;.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1840\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7895.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7895-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Moorish roof  garden\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1840\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moorish roof  garden<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_1841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1841\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7896.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7896-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tudor Garden with arches\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1841\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tudor Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_1842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1842\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7898.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7898-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Woodland Garden with flamingoes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1842\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woodland Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_1843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1843\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7900.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roofgarden7900-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Woodland garden sculpture\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1843\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woodland garden<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Visited as part of &#8220;Open House London.&#8221;) The Roof Gardens are best known to older visitors as the former Derry &#038; Toms roof gardens, but have since 1981 been leased by Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Group and are known as the Roof Gardens and Babylon Restaurant. The Gardens are spectacular, with three themed gardens, Moorish &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=1838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Derry &#038; Toms Roof Gardens, London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}