London

No: 1 2.11.2010

Westminster Abbey
The British Museum

*History and the building

-World Conservation and
Exhibitions Centre
An important new project at
the British Museum that will
In this Number: enhance and develop its
work for the future.

Tower Bridge 2
*LATEST NEWS The British Museum

-Medieval gallery now

Piccadilly Circus 2 open
The new permanent Medieval
Hyde Park 2 gallery, devoted to the British
Museum's pre-eminent collec-
tion of medieval material, is
Hyde Park 2 now open.
*MUSEUM ACTIVITIES
-Find out more about the The gallery will place this great
Houses of Parliament 3
work we do in London, collection in its fullest historical
across the UK and context, integrating art with
Trafalgar Square 3 throughout the world archaeology, with objects from
Through touring exhibitions, Britain, Europe and Byzantium.
loans, collaborative projects and
London Eye 4 other partnerships, the Museum
has a UK and worldwide reach
unprecedented in its history.

10 owning Street
Backing small business
The Government has announced
plans to help small and medium
sized businesses to flourish
and to encourage entrepre-
neurs.
The measures cover issues
such as access to finance,
support for new busi-
nesses and opening up
Government procurement
to smaller businesses.
The Prime Minister has
also asked Lord Young to
review what more Gov-
ernment can do to help
smaller enterprises and
start-ups to prosper.
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Tower Bridge
The lifting of Tower Bridge has become a
must see event for visi-
tors to London. Come
and see the bridge
raise, then tour the en-
gine rooms to learn how
it works. All this and
more when you visit the
Most Famous Bridge in
the World!
Tower Bridge Exhibi-
tion is currently un-
dergoing an essential
and exciting 3 year
renovation project.
The upcoming stage of
the restoration fo-
cuses on the bascules, the 'see-saw' position. During this time, the
elements of the road. Bridge will be closed to all traffic.
This means that there
will be no Bridge Lifts
for vessels taking
place until the end of
March when the work
is due to be com-
pleted. From the 23rd
– 28th Oct 2010 the
bascules will be raised
between 23:00 and
Tower Bridge 05:00 to facilitate the
painting of areas inac-
cessible when the
Bridge is in its down

Piccadilly Circus
Pic ca- bro nz e f o unt ai n t op p ed b y a fi g ur e of The Circus was created by
d illy a w in ged ar ch er. Th e stat ue is p o p u-
Circ us is larly call ed ER OS, th e pa ga ng od of John Nash as part of the fu-
on e of lov e, b ut it w as i n f act d es ig ned in ture King George IV's plan
L on- the 1 9th c ent ury as a sy mb ol of
d on's Christia n cha rity - a m on um e nt t o to connect Carlton House -
most L ord S haft esb ury , a phil anthr o pist. where the Prince Regent re-
fam o us
land - sided - with Regent's Park.
mar ks a nd si ghts ee ei ng att ra cti ons. Piccadilly Circus is one of
The j un cti on o f fi ve b usy st re ets in London's most famous
the c entr e of L o nd o n, Pi cad illy Cir- landmarks and sightseeeing
c us is d o min ated by hu g e ne on ad -
attractions.
vertisi n g si gns . At its h ea rt is a

Hyde Park
Hyde Park is one of several royal many large events, including ofWest
parks in London connected to
celebrations and concerts. It minster
each other, forming one large
green lung in the center of the city. is also a popular place for Abbey.
jogging, swimming, rowing, It was
The other parks are the picnicking and even horse used
neighboring Kensington Gar- riding. primar-
dens, Green Park and St. ily for
James's Park. Hyde park History —>In 1536 King hunting.
covers more than 360 acres Henry VIII confiscated Hyde Hyde Park
(142 hectares) and hosts Park from the monks
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Houses of Parliament
The Houses of Parliament, also created with two houses: the House of Lords contin-
known as the Palace of Westmin- the Lords and the ued to meet in
ster is the seat of Britain's two par-
liamentary houses, the House of Commons. The Westminster. In
Lords and the House of Com- House of Lords 1547 the House of
mons . met at the Palace Commons also
In the middle of the 11th of Westminster moved here, con-
century, King Edward the while the House firming Westmin-
Confessor had moved his of Commons did ster as the central
court to the Palace of West- not have a per- seat of govern-
minster, situated on a cen- manent location. ment, a position it
tral site near the river After King Henry still holds today.
Thames. VIII moved his The Houses of Parliament
In 1265 a parliament was court to Whitehall
Palace in 1530,

Trafalgar Square
At that time the site was History velop the
called Charing. Later it be- area.
From the 13th century on
came known as Charing Trafalgar Square
the area was the site of the is the largest
Cross, after a memorial
King's Royal Hawks and square in London
cross on the square. The and has been a
later the Royal Mews. In
nearby underground station central meeting
1812 the Prince Regent -
- aka 'tube' - is still named place since the
who would later become Middle Ages.
Charing Cross.
King George IV - asked ar-
chitect John Nash to rede-

Harrods
Harrods is London's most fa- The history Brompton Road in Knights-
mous department store. The of this fa- bridge, at the time a small
luxurious store is on many
tourists' itineraries, who come mous luxury village just outside London.
to admire the magnificent inte- store goes Just two years later, the
rior and enormous selection. back to Great Exhibition of 1851,
They often leave the store with 1849 when which took place at Crystal
a signature green bag; foreign
Charles Palace in nearby Hyde Park,
visitors account for a signifi-
cant part of the store's sales. Henry Har- brought many visitors to the
Harrods rod opened area. Knightsbridge and
History a grocery at Harrod's new store boomed.
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London Eye
A recent but already very popu-
lar tourist attraction is the Lon-
don Eye, a giant observation
wheel located in the Jubilee
Gardens on the South Bank.
The 135 meter (443ft) tall struc-
ture was built as part of Lon-
don's millennium celebrations.
A Landmark for the new
Millennium
eam of David Marks and
Julia Barfield, husband and
wife.
They submitted their idea
for a large observation
wheel as part of a competi-
tion to design a landmark
for the new millennium.
None of the entrants won
London was founded as
a communi-
cation center by the Ro
mans shortly
after they invaded Brita
in in 43 AD.
Londinium, as it was ca
lled then,
was a little village on th
e Thames.,
on the route to the prov
incial capital
in eastern England. Th
e Romans
built a bridge across Th
ames on that
route, the first bridge
on the
Thames near the little
village. Lon-
don had narrow, conges
ted streets
lined with tiny shops an
d houses
built of wood and plaste
r back then.
Even the London Bridge
, which was
considerably more than
just a river
crossing, had this tend
ency of nar-
row, crowded spaces.
the competition, but the Construction of the observa-
couple pressed on and even- tion wheel took more than a
tually got the backing of year and a half to complete.
British Airways, who spon- In the process over 1700
sored the project. tonnes of steel were used
for the structure and more
Construction
than 3000 tonnes of con-
crete were used for the
foundations. The futuristic
looking capsules, accommo-
dating up to 25 passengers,
were transported all the way
from France by train
through the chunnel.Each
egg-shaped capsule is 8 me-
ter long and weighs 500kg .
London Eye