Sightseeing + Tours
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| Marble Arch Marble Arch, Westminster, London, W1H 7 |  |
Originally located in front of Buckingham Palace, John Nash's Marble Arch was intended to be the building's main entrance (and solely for royal use). However, as enlargement to the Palace in 1851 effectively made it a re... more
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| British Telecom Maple Street, London, W1T 4BG |  |
This stalwart tower keeps London talking and is seen as both a monstrous blot on the skyline and a wonder of modern engineering. Whatever your opinion, with the majority of the city's mobile phone and internet usage cont... more
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| Vauxhall Bridge Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V |  |
This bridge was originally projected by Ralph Dodd, the father of the engineer above alluded to; and to explain the reason why the name of some branch of this family is so frequently mentioned, it ought to be stated, tha... more
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| Grand Union Canal Regents Park, Westminster, London, NW1 |  |
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but it wasn’t till I wrote about Bristol and its links with Brunel that I felt inspired to put ‘pinky to keyboard’. What follows is a description of one of my favourite off-ro... more
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| Southwark Bridge Southwark Bridge, London, EC4V 3 | |
In 1913 the demolition work started on the old bridge, but due to World War I it was not completed until 1921. The new bridge has five steel arches supported by turreted piers. Its five spans, two each of 123 ft and 131 ... more
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| Eltham Palace Off Court Road, Court Yard, Eltham, London, SE9 5QE | |
A few miles away, we dived back to the 13th century and the birth of an important house which by 1348 was one of the largest and most frequented royal residences in the country. Although nowadays Eltham, if it is known a... more
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| Admiralty Arch Trafalgar Square, London, WC2 |  |
Gateway to the Mall -- no, not an indoor shopping center but one of the very grand avenues of London -- this is one of London's stateliest urban set pieces. On the southwest corner of Trafalgar Square, the arch, which wa... more
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| Royal Courts of Justice Strand, Charing Cross, London, WC2A 2LL | |
True to the neo-Gothic style, the RCJ looks like a vast, grand cathedral. As you go through the wrought-iron gates, and up the wide stone steps, the pointed arches high above your head have an ecclesiastical air. Past th... more
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| Shaftesbury Avenue Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, London, W1D 5 | |
The Palace Theatre, dominating the west side of Cambridge Circus, was built in 1891 as an opera house but became a musical hall the following year. In 1910 the ballerina Anna Pavlova made her London debut here. Today the... more
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| London Dungeon 28-34 Tooley Street, London, SE1 9BD | |
Take yourself back in time to the past and experience the sights, sounds and even smells of London. Once you are inside the London Dungeons you would be hard pressed to know that you were really in museum underneath one ... more
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