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Petticoat Lane
Jellied eels wobbling in a bowl, a splash of vinegar and a chunk of fresh bread. Yummy! What a way to spend a Sunday morning! Even better if you get a chance to grab a bargain off one of the Petticoat Lane stalls and wander smugly to your next port of call, a Thames riverside pub for a pint of ale or glass of chilled white wine. Oh the thought of it!
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River Thames
"Old Father Thames keeps rolling along, down to the mighty sea" goes the old song. Not quite as dramatic, perhaps as "Ol' Man River" immortalised by the glorious, soulful tones of Paul Robeson, but evocative none the less. Few rivers are more photographed, have more history and are better known around the world than the River Thames.
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River Thames Memories
"Old river keep on flowing, our ever changing guard
Our constant companion through the city heart"
( "Until Our Race is Won" - J. Horden)
How often the moving, dark, oily beast that is the River Thames has drawn my gaze and filled my senses! There's something hypnotic about the sight, smell and sound of the old river as it rolls timelessly to the sea! |
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St. Paul's Cathedral
By the time the raging inferno known as The Great Fire of London was finally extinguished in 1666, more than 13,000 homes housing 70,000 people had gone.
87 churches, including St. Paul's Cathedral as well as most of the buildings of the City of London authorities were raised to the ground. |
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Tower Bridge
"No-one will be forgotten, no-one cast aside
We can build a bridge to span the great divide"
("Until Our Race is Won" - J. Horden) What is there to be said about Tower Bridge? Who but the Victorians could have designed and constructed such an edifice as Tower Bridge, and one that is as functional today as it was 100 years ago?
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Tower Of London
William the Conqueror meant business when he started building the Tower of London nearly one thousand years ago.
You weren't meant to get in and you weren't meant to get out! Unless the person in charge wanted you to, anyway!
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Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square . The name is evocative and known around the world but what does the name mean and what is the square for? In fact, the name of this central London square commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar . Once described as the most famous place on Earth that no one has ever been to, Cape Trafalgar near Cadiz in Southern Spain , was a little-known point on the map until the year 1805 . |
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Westminister Abbey Part 1
Ask a Londoner (out of interest, try a London cabbie) where to find the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster and you'll probably get a shrug of the shoulders and a "Sorry mate, no idea". Ask for Westminster Abbey and the response will likely be along the lines of "Oh, yeh, it's just by the Houses of Parliament". |
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Westminister Abbey Part 2
In Part 1 of our article on Westminster Abbey we told you that the formal name of the church is the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster.
Westminster Abbey is a large, mainly Gothic, church just to the west of the Palace of Westminster also known as the Houses of Parliament . Westminster Abbey is the traditional place of the coronation and burial site for British monarchs . |
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