London
capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom
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Symbols of London
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Arms of City of London
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Coat of arms of the City of London
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Coat of arms of the City of London (B&W)
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Flag of the former Greater London Council
Geographic location
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Location on satellite footage
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Location on topographic map
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A dot showing London within the United Kingdom
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Satellite image (2018)
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Satellite image (2019)
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Map of London (2014)
London boroughs
editBoroughs of London: City of London · City of Westminster · Barking and Dagenham · Barnet · Bexley · Brent · Bromley · Camden · Croydon · Ealing · Enfield · Greenwich · Hackney · Hammersmith and Fulham · Haringey · Harrow · Havering · Hillingdon · Hounslow · Islington · Kensington and Chelsea · Kingston upon Thames · Lambeth · Lewisham · Merton · Newham · Redbridge · Richmond · Southwark · Sutton · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest · Wandsworth
Metropolitan boroughs: Battersea · Bermondsey · Bethnal Green · Camberwell · Chelsea · Deptford · Finsbury · Fulham · Greenwich · Hackney · Hammersmith · Hampstead · Holborn · Islington · Kensington · Lambeth · Lewisham · Paddington · Poplar · Shoreditch · Southwark · St Marylebone · St Pancras · Stepney · Stoke Newington · Wandsworth · Westminster · Woolwich
Metropolitan boroughs: Battersea · Bermondsey · Bethnal Green · Camberwell · Chelsea · Deptford · Finsbury · Fulham · Greenwich · Hackney · Hammersmith · Hampstead · Holborn · Islington · Kensington · Lambeth · Lewisham · Paddington · Poplar · Shoreditch · Southwark · St Marylebone · St Pancras · Stepney · Stoke Newington · Wandsworth · Westminster · Woolwich
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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Town Hall (Barking IG11)
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London Borough of Barnet Town Hall (Hendon, London NW4)
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London Borough of Camden Town Hall (Judd Street, London NW1)
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London Borough of Croydon Town Hall (Fairfield CR0/CR9)
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London Borough of Ealing Town Hall (Ealing, London W5)
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London Borough of Enfield Town Hall (Enfield EN1)
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Royal Borough of Greenwich Town Hall (Woolwich, London SE18)
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London Borough of Hackney Town Hall (London E8)
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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall (London W6)
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London Borough of Harrow Town Hall (Harrow HA1)
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London Borough of Havering Town Hall (Romford RM1)
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London Borough of Hillingdon Town Hall (Uxbridge UB8)
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London Borough of Hounslow Town Hall (Hounslow TW3)
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London Borough of Islington Town Hall (Islington, London N1)
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall (London W8)
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Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Town Hall (Kingston KT1)
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London Borough of Lambeth Town Hall (Brixton, London SW2)
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London Borough of Lewisham Town Hall (Catford, London SE6)
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London Borough of Merton Town Hall (Morden, SM4)
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London Borough of Newham Town Hall (East Ham, London E6)
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London Borough of Redbridge Town Hall (Ilford IG1)
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York House (town hall of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames) (Twickenham TW1)
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London Borough of Southwark Town Hall (Peckham, London SE15)
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London Borough of Sutton Town Hall (Sutton SM1)
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets Town Hall (Mulberry Place, London E14)
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London Borough of Waltham Forest Town Hall (Walthamstow, London E17)
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London Borough of Wandsworth Town Hall (Ram Street, London SW8)
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Westminster City Hall (Victoria Street, London SW1)
City views
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Panorama of London
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Rooftop view, circa 1865
Government buildings
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The Department of Culture, Media and Sport's HQ in Cockspur Street
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Her Majesty's Treasury's London headquarters, seen from Parliament Square
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The Ministry of Defence, Whitehall
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Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, seen from the south bank of the Thames
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, seen from St James's Park
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Portcullis House (the offices of Members of Parliament)
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Department of Health, Whitehall
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Admiralty Extension and Horseguards Parade, Whitehall
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The Old War Office, Whitehall
City Hall
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City Hall
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City Hall from the high walkway on Tower Bridge
Palace of Westminster
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Houses of Parliament, seen across Westminster Bridge
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Westminster Hall
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Claude Monet: Parliament
Big Ben
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Big Ben clock 1
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Detail clock
Downing Street
edit See also category: Downing Street.
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Downing Street, Whitehall
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Downing Street, Whitehall
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The gates at Downing Street
Buckingham Palace
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Changing the guard
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Buckingham palace, 1909
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Buckingham Palace, panoramic view
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Buckingham Palace
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Aerial view
Famous places
editPiccadilly
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Burlington Arcade
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Hotel Ritz
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Simpsons of Piccadilly (formerly)
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Hatchards Bookshop
Leicester Square
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Leicester Square Gardens
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Leicester Square Gardens
County Hall
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County Hall
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County Hall and London Eye
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The lion at the NW corner of the County Hall
Kensington Palace
editThe Bank of England
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The Bank of England
Whitehall
edit See also category: Whitehall.
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Whitehall, looking south
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Whitehall St. viewed from Trafalgar Square
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Banqueting House, Whitehall
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Changing of the Guard, Whitehall
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Horse Guards
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Horse Guards
The London Eye
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London Eye and County Hall in evening light
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London Eye and County Hall at night
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London Eye by night
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London Eye by night
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Panoramic view
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View
The Barbican
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A small part of the Barbican showing flats and cafe
Trafalgar Square
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Trafalgar Square on a summer evening
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Canada House, on the south west side
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Canada House, on the north east side
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South Africa House, on the north east side
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Admiralty Arch
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Lions in Nelson's Column at Trafalgar Square
Piccadilly Circus
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Piccadilly Circus signs
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Panorama
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Panorama
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Eros
Tower of London
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The view of the Tower of London from The Shard to the south west
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White Tower
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Yeoman Warder (also known as Beefeater)
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Yeoman Warder (also known as Beefeater)
Office buildings
edit30 St Mary Axe — Swiss Re Tower
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30 St Mary Axe at night
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30 St Mary Axe at day
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Perspective from base, Swiss Re
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Perspective from base, Swiss Re
Other office buildings
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New US Embassy Building
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The Swiss Re Tower (in the background)
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Lloyd's Building (with the blue cranes)
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Centre Point
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Shell Mex House
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Euston Tower
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Reuters Data Centre in Blackwall
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Salvation Army International Headquarters
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Canary Wharf viewed from Parliament Hill
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The Old Royal Naval College Greenwich with The City and East London background
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Cabot Square & Canary Wharf Towers
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10 Upper Bank
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HSBC Tower, Docklands
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HSBC Tower, Docklands
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One West India Quay
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Barclays HQ, Docklands
Shops and shopping areas
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Hamley's toy store on Regent Street
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Harrod's
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New Bond Street 1
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New Bond Street 2
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Old Bond Street
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A scene in Hatton Garden
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A ring shop in Hatton Garden
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Portobello Road, Notting Hill
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Portobello Road Antique Market, Notting Hill
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Camden Lock at Camden Lock Market
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Camden Lock at Camden Lock Market
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Oxford Street
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Agent Provocateur lingerie shop in Soho
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Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
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Covent Garden market
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Covent Garden market
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Covent Garden market
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Knightsbridge
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The Royal Exchange
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Trendy Westbourne Grove
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Trendy Westbourne Grove in Bayswater
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View north up Queensway, London from in front of the entrance to Bayswater tube station
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Camden Town High Street
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Camden Town High Street
Culture
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Royal Albert Hall
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Royal Festival Hall
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Ronnie Scott's Club at 47 Frith Street, Soho
Monuments
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The Cenotaph, Whitehall
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Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster
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Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster
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The RAF Memorial on the Victoria Embankment
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The Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace
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The Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace
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Victoria Memorial
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Victoria Memorial
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Wellington Arch
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Marble Arch
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Cleopatra's Needle from the Thames
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Albert Memorial
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Albert Memorial
The Monument to the Great Fire of London
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Seen from the ground
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The base of the Monument
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The viewing platform
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The Monument from the high-level walkway on Tower Bridge
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View of London from The Monument
Galleries and museums
editThe British Museum
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British Museum
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British Museum
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Great Court with roof by Foster and Partners
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British Museum New Great Court
The National Gallery
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National Gallery in the 1890s
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National Gallery
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National Gallery
The Natural History Museum
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Museum exterior
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Main hall
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Main hall
The Victoria and Albert Museum
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Victoria and Albert Museum entrance hall
Somerset House
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Courtyard of Somerset House
Tate
editTate Modern
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Exterior
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The Turbine Hall
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The Turbine Hall
Tate Britain
edit See also category: Tate Britain.
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Tate Britain
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Portico
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Tate Britain
HMS Belfast
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HMS Belfast with Tower Bridge
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HMS Belfast and City Hall seen from the top of the Great Fire of London Monument
Other museums
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Whitechapel Art Gallery
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Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon
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National Army Museum
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National Maritime Museum
Theatres
editShakespeare's Globe Theatre
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Shakespeare's Globe
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Shakespeare's Globe
Other theatres
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London Coliseum (English National Opera)
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Haymarket Theatre Royal
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Her Majesty's Theatre
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King's Theatre (Queen's Theatre), Haymarket, 1783
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Royal National Theatre
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Royal National Theatre
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Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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Prince Edward Theatre, Old Compton Street
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Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria Street
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Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly
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Prince of Wales Theatre
The O2 Arena — Millennium Dome
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The Millennium Dome, with Canary Wharf in the background
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The O2 Arena
Transport
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London taxi
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London taxi
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London ambulance
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London ambulance
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DUKW giving tourist trips
Railway stations
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Paddington station, central vault
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St Pancras station
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Victoria Station
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Eurostar at St Pancras
London Underground
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MIND THE GAP
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Blackfriars tube station
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Battersea Power Station station
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Nine Elms Station, platform concourse
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Canary Wharf tube station
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Gants Hill tube station
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Gants Hill tube station
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Northbound platform of Lambeth North tube station
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Southbound Bakerloo line platform at Embankment station
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London tube corridor
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London Underground Tube Stock Train approaching station
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The interior of a refurbished Jubilee line 96 Tube Stock DM vehicle
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The interior of a Piccadilly line 73 Tube Stock Driving Motor vehicle
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Mail Rail tube train
London Buses
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AEC Routemaster RM
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AEC Routemaster RM
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Arriva London Alexander Dennis Enviro400H City
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Wright Streetlite WF B28F
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A Caetano eCity Gold of Abellio London
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One of London's Van Hool Hydrogen fuel cell buses
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Yutong E10 battery bus
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Abellio London - Wright New Routemaster
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Bus on the London Bridge
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Abellio London - Wright New Routemaster
Bridges
editTower Bridge
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English: The Tower Bridge and the Tower of London.
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English: Tower Bridge as seen from Butler's Wharf, Southwark
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Bridge open
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Close up on opened bridge bascules
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Tower Bridge at night
Millennium Bridge
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London Millenium Bridge from Saint Paul's Cathedral
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Looking towards St Paul's Cathedral
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Crossing the bridge, looking towards St Paul's Cathedral
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Crossing the bridge, looking towards St Paul's Cathedral
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A view of the bridge from Thames below.
Other bridges
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Hungerford Bridge
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Waterloo Bridge
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London Bridge
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Blackfriars Railway Bridge
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Westminster Bridge
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Lambeth Bridge
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Hammersmith Bridge
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Hammersmith Bridge
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Albert Bridge
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Albert Bridge
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Chelsea Bridge
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Chelsea Bridge
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Southwark Bridge
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Vauxhall Bridge
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Vauxhall Bridge
Traffic congestion
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Traffic congestion
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Traffic congestion
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Bus congestion
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Congestion on the London Underground
Religious places
editSt. Paul's Cathedral
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St. Paul's Cathedral
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The Golden Gallery above the dome (where the people are standing)
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St. Pauls Cathedral, interior
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St. Pauls Cathedral, interior
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St. Pauls Cathedral, interior
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The dome from the gardens.
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The dome seen from Tate Modern
Westminster Abbey
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West Door 1
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West Door 2
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Westminster Door seen from Victoria Street
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At night
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At night
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The tomb of King Henry III in the Abbey
Westminster Cathedral
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Front view from Victoria Street
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Front view from Victoria Street
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The interior
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A side-chapel roof mosaic
Southwark Cathedral
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The interior
Other churches
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St. Alfege's Church, Greenwich
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St. Anne's Church, Limehouse
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St. Bride's Church
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The interior of St. Bride's Church
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St. Clement Danes
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The interior of St. Clement Danes
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St. Dunstan's Church
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St. Martin-in-the-Fields
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The interior of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
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Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
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Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster
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The interior of Saint Margaret's Church
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St. Mary-Le-Bow Church
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The interior of St. Mary-Le-Bow Church
Synagogues
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Bevis Marks Synagogue
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The interior of Bevis Marks Synagogue
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New West End Synagogue
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The interior of New West End Synagogue
Mosques
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London Central Mosque
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East London Mosque
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Masjid Bilal
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Jamia Masjid
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Madina Masjid
Parks
editRoyal Parks and The Mall
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The Mall
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The London Eye from St. James's Park, beyond Horse Guards
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St. James's Park on a Winter Day
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Spring Flowers in St. James's Park
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St. James's Park Lake
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Spring Flowers in Green Park
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Green Park on a Winter Day
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Regent's Park bandstand and lake
Hyde Park
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Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
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Aerial view of Hyde Park
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Hyde Park
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Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Greenhouse
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Pagoda
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The Palm House
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The Palm House
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The Temperate House
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Kew Palace
Houses
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Red brick flats in London, England, by the Thames
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Dunworth Mews in London, England
River Thames
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The Pool of London
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View from London Eye by night
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View from London Eye by day
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Limehouse Reach looking east, with Isle of Dogs in background
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Westminster pier
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Thames Barrier
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Thames Barrier
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View from river level near Tower Bridge. The two tall buildings are Tower 42 and the Swiss Re Tower
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View upstream from the high level walkway on Tower Bridge
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The River Thames - Vauxhall/Pimlico, London
Guard soldiers
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Foot Guards at the Cenotaph
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Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace (1)
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Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace (2)
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Life Guards at Whitehall
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A trooper of the Blues and Royals on mounted duty in Whitehall
Paintings and drawings of London
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1616: Panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher
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c. 1630: City of London
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1746-47: The Thames and the City by Canaletto
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1747: London: The Thames and the City of London from Richmond House by Canaletto
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1834-35: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament by Turner
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1835: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament by Turner
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1852: Houses of Parliament, London 1852 by Edmund Walker
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1871: Old Chelsea Bridge in London by Pissarro
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1902: Houses of Parliament, Sunset by Monet
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2006: London burning, Gouache on Paper by Stuerzinger
Miscellaneous without classification
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Shard
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The Idle 'Prentice executed at Tyburn
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history
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Bank of England, c. 1900
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Horticultural Gardens, 1871 International Exhibition
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Sculpture gallery, 1871 International Exhibition
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The Diana princess of Wales memorial walk
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The Silver Jubilee walkway
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London telephone boxes
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Battersea Power Station
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Lots Road Power Station
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The City of London School
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A modern photo (2005) of the 1883-1987 City of London School
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The Middlesex Guildhall
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Headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in London
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Homelessness in London, 2006
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Newspaper Vendor
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St. Thomas Hospital
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Tiffany
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The Old Bailey