London | Great Britain | 2015

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Tate Modern 

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.

Tate Modern has attracted more visitors than originally expected and plans to expand it have been in preparation since 2004. These plans are focused on the south west of the building and will provide 5,000m2 of new display space, almost doubling the amount of display space.
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British Pound Sterling 

The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom is denominated in pounds sterling (symbol "£"), and, since the introduction of the two-pound coin in 1994 (to celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Bank of England 1694-1994), ranges in value from one penny to two pounds. Since decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 (new) pence. From the 16th century until decimalisation, the pound was divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 (old) pence. British coins are minted by the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales. The Royal Mint also commissions the coins' designs.As of 30 March 2010, there were an estimated 28 billion coins circulating in the United Kingdom. The circulating coins, excepting the two-pound coin, were redesigned in 2008, keeping the sizes and compositions unchanged, but introducing reverse designs that each depict a part of the Royal Shield of Arms and form (most of) the whole shield when they are placed together in the appropriate arrangement (see photo)

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Liberty's Christmas Window 

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Oxford Circus

For this year’s theme, Liberty: The Home of Christmas, the Regent Street department store transformed the iconic windows into a series of rooms resembling a giant dolls house.

The store has taken inspiration from filmmaker Wes Anderson and his wacky comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel with a surrealist pink theme.

Shoppers were entertained with Christmas songs performed by the London Gay Men’s Chorus.

The window was unveiled by Kylie Minogue

“We are known worldwide for Christmas. This is our season. People make trips to London especially for the Liberty experience,” says managing director Ed Burstell. “Every time I walk through the store I understand why Arthur Liberty was a genius. He made a building that you cannot recreate anywhere else. It is laid out residentially and you get lost here. That’s the magic.”

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Regent Street Christmas Lights On 

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Piccadilly Circus

The grand shopping stretch gets its usual Christmas makeover with garlands of lights down the length of the road. This year's Regent Street Christmas lights are sponsored by Jo Malone London and will feature shimmering golden sequins, cogs and coils. ACT Lighting Design, who design the Christmas lights in Paris, have created the spectacle. The switch-on event (Nov 15) features musical entertainment from The Blondettes, KD Jazz and Dance Orchestra, The Haywood Sisters and more. The cast of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory will also be appearing and a fireworks display will light up the skies even more. 

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Bus Hire 

The wedding buses come decorated with white artificial flowers inside and white ribbon outside together with wedding blinds.  The blinds can either show a wedding bell and "Wedding Special" or can be left to show the traditional London destinations. Personalised blinds showing the bride and grooms names are available to order at an additional cost.

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Hammersmith Bridge

Zone 2 | Nearest tube-station: Hammersmith

Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames in west London. It allows road traffic and pedestrians to cross from the southern part of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the north side of the river, toBarnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, on the south side of the river. The current bridge, which is Grade II* listed and was designed by the noted civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, is the second permanent bridge on the site.

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Canary Wharf

Zone 2 | Nearest tube-station: Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf is a major business district located in Tower Hamlets, east London, England. It is one of the United Kingdom's two main financial centres – along with the traditional City of London – and contains many of Europe's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest in Great Britain, One Canada Square.

The Canary Wharf of today began when Michael von Clemm, former chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), came up with the idea to convert Canary Wharf into a back office. Further discussions with G Ware Travelstead led to proposals for a new business district.

The project was sold to the Canadian company Olympia & York and construction began in 1988, master-planned bySkidmore, Owings & Merrill with Yorke Rosenberg Mardall as their UK advisors, and subsequently by Koetter Kim. The first buildings were completed in 1991

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Tate Britain

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Pimlico

The gallery is situated on Millbank, on the site of the former Millbank Prison. Construction, undertaken by Higgs and Hill, commenced in 1893, and the gallery opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. However, from the start it was commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate, and in 1932 it officially adopted that name. Before 2000, the gallery housed and displayed both British and modern collections, but the launch of Tate Modern saw Tate's modern collections move there, while the old Millbank gallery became dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary British art. As a consequence, it was renamed Tate Britain in March 2000.

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New Bond Street 

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Bond street

Bond Street is a street in the West End of London, connecting Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. The street, consisting of two sections, has been a popular shopping area since the 18th century and is the home of many fashion outlets that sell prestigious and expensive items. The southern section is known as Old Bond Street and the longer northern section is known as New Bond Street.

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A.HOWGEGO BOROUGH MKT

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Borough Market

This token was used by Aubury's greengrocers in Battersea Park Road in the late 1920's. It was issued by A. Howgego Jnr of Borough Market. Tokens, or brasses, were used by market traders at a time when fruit and veg were supplied in durable wooden boxes or baskets. The purchaser would be charged a deposit and given a token. The deposit was returned on production of both the container and the token - the purpose of the token was to ensure that people did not steal the boxes and keep returning them to claim non-existent deposits. Their use declined in the 1950s and 1960s but they finally ended with the introduction of Value Added Tax in the 1970s, as VAT would have been charged on the deposits.

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Hammersmith, London 01.11.2015

Pea-soup smog.

Zone 2 | Nearest tube-station: Ravescourt Park

Pea soup, or a pea souper, also known as a black fog, killer fog or smog is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish, or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulphur dioxide. This very thick smog occurs in cities and is derived from the smoke given off by the burning of soft coal for home heating and in industrial processes. Smog of this intensity is often lethal to vulnerable people such as the elderly, the very young and those with respiratory problems.

Pea soup fog was once prevalent in UK cities, especially London, where the coal smoke from millions of chimneys combined with the mists and fogs of the Thames valley. The result was commonly known as a London particular or London fog, which then, in a reversal of the idiom, became the name for a thick pea and ham soup.

The great Smog 1952.

A fog so thick and polluted it left thousands dead wreaked havoc on London in 1952. The smoke-like pollution was so toxic it was even reported to have choked cows to death in the fields. It was so thick it brought road, air and rail transport to a virtual standstill. This was certainly an event to remember, but not the first smog of its kind to hit the capital.

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Regent st., Central London 31.10.2015

  London to Brighton Veteran Car Run

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Piccadilly Circus

''The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the longest-running motoring event in the world. The first run was in 1896, and it has taken place most years since its initial revival in 1927. To qualify, the cars must have been built before 1905. It is also the world's largest gathering of veteran cars – 443 started in 2005, 484 in 2009, compared to 37 starters in 1927, 51 starters in 1930 and 131 in 1938.

It takes place, currently, on the first Sunday in November and starts at sunrise from Hyde Park, London and mostly follows the old A23 roadto finish at Brighton – a distance of 54 miles (87 km). There are two official stops along the way: Crawley and Preston Park (in a suburb of Brighton). Preston Park is the official finishing point; the cars then proceed to Madeira Drive on the seafront, also the venue for Brighton's other big motoring event, the Brighton Speed Trials.''

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Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Green Park

''The moment when you want to squeeze your self in some short-cut streets to get you lazy arse to Green park quicker and you find out how many spectacular arcades are hidden behind the Seville Row.''

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Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Oxford Street

''Lost in the alleys of Maddox street''

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''London signs Vol.2''

''London signs Vol.1''

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Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Covent Garden

"Covent garden, autumn theme creations. Back in 2013 they'd decided to turn it into a Christmas miracle from October. There were literally billions of fairy lights and huge Christmas balls hanging from the ceiling. Opera and jazz bands were accompaniing the stunning view. This year they made this enormous cloud out of white balloons. In the night all those balloons were lighted and were switching on and off following the rythms of electro and house music."

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''The great beauty of the autumnal London''

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"Even great minds grow old someday."

#Sherlockholmes

Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Baker Street

''It's true that when we think of Holmes – as well as funny hats, dressing-gowns, pipes, violins, scary dogs and "a 7% solution of cocaine" – we think of gaslight and gloaming, tendrils of fog, the impatient rap of cane on cobblestones, horses whinnying and hansoms clattering. But that is the genius of the stories. And it isn't just with respect to London that Conan Doyle's creation proved porous to the imaginations of others.''
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''Right under Sherlock Holmes' museum.''
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Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Piccadilly Circus

''Another rainy day in London. One of the busiest streets of the city is suffering loneliness. Let the rain was the dirt off the passengers.''

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Zone 1 | Nearest tube-station: Piccadilly Circus

''Casual Mornings. Crossing Regent street on her lower levels.''

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''The traditional part of it. Sometimes I consider those sort of views as the beauty foreigners bring to a routine.''

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''The charm of autumn. Astonishing colours embrace the walls of my court. Starting from a bright green, fading to fire red and ending up in a deep burgundy.'' 

''On a French church front yard somewhere in Chiswick.''

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