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South Bank Venues This page aims to help you reach the Royal National Theatre (Olivier, Lyttelton and Cottesloe theatres), the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room from Waterloo Underground Station. The monkey is often asked for these directions, and it hopes this guide will help make a complicated part of London easier to negotiate. For mobility impaired audience members, the Society of London Theatre provide a "photo map" - illustrated walking route to this venue from a near landmark and also Waterloo Station (the nearest fully accessible station) on their website www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk, via the theatre's listing page on that site.
First, use the button below to plan your route to Waterloo Station: Then, once arrived... This page is in three parts - just click on the section you require: PART TWO: If you take the WRONG Waterloo station exit - the monkey gets you "back on track" with the rest of us! PART THREE: Getting from the South Bank to the actual venues - choose the one you require: Royal Festival Hall Complex Royal National Theatre
Ready to go... This station has multiple exits, not clearly marked, so be careful! Follow the exit signs marked "South Bank" and / or "Shell Exit" and / or "York Road Exit" from the platform to the surface. All lead to the same place! Leave the station and you will be on York Road.
Turn to your left, and walk past the Lloyds / TSB Bank. Ahead to your left is
a huge silver steel rectangle. No, the monkey does not know what it is either -
though the National Theatre say it is "modern art!". To the left of
it, and behind, is a pedestrian passageway called "Sutton
Walk"; which goes under a bridge. Take it. At the end is a fountain ahead of you. Turn to your left and the Royal Festival Hall is ahead of you:
Walk towards it (mind the traffic on the road you cross to be there)
and you will be standing on this windy stretch of pavement, with a cafe to your left.
Welcome to "Belvedere Road", from which all venues on the South Bank can be reached. For the next step, click the one you are trying to get to: Royal National Theatre
PART TWO If you have the misfortune to leave the station by the "Waterloo Road" exit, fear not. You have two choices - either you can follow signs to the mainline station and cross the concourse to the York Road main exit (it will place you opposite the tunnel) or, if you don't mind a less salubrious way BEARING IN MIND YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY AT ALL TIMES before deciding: On leaving the glass doors, turn left.
Walk to the corner,
and turn left into "Mepham Street".
Walk all the way to the end of it, avoiding the temptation to go under any bridges.
At the end of the street is York Road. Cross it. Ahead of you, to the left, is "Sutton Walk", the pedestrian road under the bridge. Take it - it is the place arrowed below!
Now CLICK HERE to rejoin the rest of us as we enter "Sutton Walk"!
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