City of Westminster
Westminster sits at the heart of London and is the centre of British political life. It’s home to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, where 39 monarchs have been crowned.
Tourists flock to landmarks like Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, and Covent Garden’s shops and theatres. Then there’s the dilemma of whether to take tea at the Ritz, dim sum in Chinatown – or maybe a pint in one of Soho’s many pubs?
Composer George Frideric Handel wrote Messiah in Mayfair, next door to where rock legend Jimi Hendrix would live some 200 years later. Two miles away is Abbey Road Studios, and the zebra crossing made famous by The Beatles.
And yet with all that heritage, Westminster never sits still – a key example of London’s way of respecting its past while embracing the future.
The Palace of Westminster from Westminster Bridge
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The comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan
The writer-composer pair behind the hottest shows in Victorian London
How Cleopatra’s Needle came to London
An ancient Egyptian obelisk – on the banks of the River Thames
Building a Victorian underground railway
Henry Flather’s photos of the Metropolitan District Railway show a transport revolution in action
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Trafalgar Square from the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Fields (gelatin silver print)
Reid, George Davison
1920-1933
May your Sorrows be as light as I am (valentine card)
Dobbs Kidd and Company
1860-1880
