Touch
- Multi-textured place with grass, trees, water, wood and stone
- Natural and built places
- New and old together
- Smooth and rough qualities
- Awareness of touching history
- Touching a real and authentic place
The essence of place in senses
The following give a sense of the character of Maritime Greenwich in spirit and feeling as expressed by local people. These may be considered to demonstrate the appreciation and some of the local values of the place.
Sounds
- Music from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
- Clocks
- Waves and water
- Birdsong
- Different voices
- Lively places
- Night-time sounds
- Contrast between busy and quiet places
- Water features outside Sammy Ofer Wing
Smells
- Cutty Sark tar
- The river at low and high tides
- Greenwich Market
- Mown grass
- Fresh flowers
- Fresh air
Colours
- Blue/black skies and river
- Sunsets at high tide
- Silhouettes of historic roofscapes against sunsets
- Dark shadows
- Green spaces
- White stone and stucco buildings
- Red-brick houses
- Green railings
- The red time-ball
- Gold weather vanes
- Green Prime Meridian laser beam
- ‘House’ colours of Greenwich Market, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Foundation
- Red telephone boxes
Maritime Greenwich at night
- Views of Canary Wharf
- Floodlit facades of great buildings
- Floodlit masts and rigging of Cutty Sark
- Town Centre shopfronts
- Meridian laser beam
- Dark skies above the Park
- Dark places away from main streets
