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planxty Says: I know the photo accompanying this tip doesn't look very exciting, especially taken on a dismal September day in London, but what you are looking at is, in fact, the first "flyover" in London, of which there are now literally hundreds. Designed by William Heywood, it was...
planxty Says: Imagine, if you can, a couple of beautifully preserved 18th century London townhouses, overlooking a pleasant square. Now imagine these beautiful buildings filled with every concievable sort of painting and artefact that would have been available to the ardent collector of...
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planxty Says: It may seem a bit odd to be putting what is arguably the most famous court building in the world on an off the beaten path tip, but I'm suggesting the Old Bailey.Properly known as the Central Criminal Court, it derives it's name from the name of the street it is in. It has...
planxty Says: Located on the wall of a modern building at the junction of Giltspur St. and Cock Lane EC1 (near to Smithfield meat market) is this rather fetching statue. To my mind a little reminiscent of the Mannekin Pis in Brussels, it is actually a memorial to the Great Fire of London...
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Imagine, if you can, a couple of beautifully preserved 18th century London townhouses, overlooking a pleasant square. Now imagine these beautiful buildings...
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Holborn today is a busy thoroughfare running East to West from the City towards Oxford Street and the West End and now gives it's name to the areas surrounding it. We first hear of it as...
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VT goes Dutch in Holborn, London
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