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Big Ben
Someone to 'Watch' Over Me!
Is there a sound that assaults your senses more than mournful tones of Big Ben striking the hour?
Even the chimes of Big Ben's smaller bells striking the quarter hour are enough to cause everybody within earshot to cast a hurried glance at their watch to check they have the right time.
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Big Ben's Bell
Big Ben - The Big Bong Theory
OK so you want to know everything there is to know about Big Ben's bells and Big Ben's 'bongs', you asked for it! Take an extra shot of espresso in your latte and make yourself comfortable. Big Ben's main bell and the largest bell in the tower is officially known as the Great Bell . |
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Big Ben's Clock
Big Ben - London's Timepiece.
Is Big Ben the most famous clock in the world? Who wouldn't be familiar with those huge clock faces and those rib-shaking, hourly 'bongs'? Somebody who's never seen the BBC perhaps, or ITV's 'News at Ten'? |
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Buckingham Palace Today
Buckingham Palace, in the west end of London, is a place where, on most days, people can be found with faces pressed eagerly against the imposing railings in something resembling awe.
It's almost as if the other side of the railings held some sort of a fairytale for us, taking us out of our ordinary lives.
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Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria
When is a Palace not a Palace?
Buckingham Palace was originally known as Buckingham House. The building which forms the core of today's Buckingham Palace was a large London townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703. It was acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence, and became known as "The Queen's House".
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Greenwich
Greenwich - The Home of Time "Have you got the time on you, mate?" "Yes, it's just gone noon, GMT" comes the reply! Not a likely exchange between Londoners, we admit, but GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is a legitimate point on the global clock and has been so for hundred's of years.
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London Eye
London's attractions, the Ferrist of them all?
Here's a question! What London tourist attraction has been described as having "a brilliantly inessential function.…to lift people up from the ground, take them round a giant loop in the sky, then put them back down where they started"?
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Houses Of Parliament
"It's memory of legend, the leaders of the land The edict of change we strive to understand"
("Until Our Race is Won" - J. Horden) They certainly know how to look after themselves, Britain's politicians !
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London's Parks and Gardens
Our Green and Pleasant Land -London's Parks and Gardens
"The parks will revive me with fresh air to breathe…
London my home, forever part of me"
("Until Our Race is Won" - Jonnie Horden) . Big cities are hectic! Let's face it, at times they can be hell. The clamour, the rush, the traffic, the continuous movement of people who need to be somewhere else…..NOW!
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