This room is now used as a place of deposit for instruments, and busts and portraits of eminent men, and also as the dancing-hall for the director's family.
"Under Mr.Airy's [Footnote: The late Sir George Airy.] direction, the walls of the observing-room have become pages of its history.

The transit instruments used by Halley, Bradley, and Pond hang side by side; the zenith sector with which Bradley discovered the 'aberration of light,' now moving rustily on its arc, is the ornament of another room; while the shelves of the computing-room are filled with volumes of unpublished observations of Flamstead and others.
"The observatory stands in Greenwich Park, the prettiest park I have yet seen; being a group of small hills.

They point out oaks said to belong to Elizabeth's time--noble oaks of any time.

The observatory is one hundred and fifty feet above the sea level.

The view from it is, of course, beautiful.