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Tower Hamlets Council,
Ivan (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
I care
London International Press Centre,
pointytwist
wrote
17 years ago:
This roof of this building has a helipad, and has has featured in BBC idents:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/03_march/26/bbconeident.shtml
and also the Lamb video for the song "Gabriel":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUWFvT16f8
The Grenadier Pub,
chrisjy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub384.html
"Little Ben",
chrisjy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ben
Winkworth,
Robert (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Absolute rubbish agents.
MRC Cyclotron,
Robert (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
This place is run by absolutely inept people.
Stoke Newington School,
Observer (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Formerly Clissold Park School
Waitrose Supermarket,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
used to be a ford dealership, but closed down in the early 1990's
Kebabish,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Used to be a Wimpy Burger Bar
CCTV Camera.,
Exotic Male (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Where all the white people gone?!!
PSTA ,
M (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Building houses four charities:
The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment (PFBE)
The Prince's School of Traditional Arts (PSTA)
The Prince's Drawing School (PDS)
International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU)
Highbury Barn,
M (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Not only gentrified people use this street: there's a chippie, post office, budgens, chicken shop, caff etc.
Hallmark Forest Gate,
Hallmark Forest Gate (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Hallmark Forest Gate
Stonebridge Park Estate,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
An area of London that was considered so dangerious that when Tony Blair (former primer minster) wanted to visit, the local police said that they couldn't guarantee his safety. This estate is home to most of NW Londons drug dealers, car theives and Burgulars
People don't live here unless they absolutely desperately have to
Sainsburys,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
used to be a Nestle Powdered milk plant
Crooked Billet Roundabout,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Actually known locally as the "Crooked Billet" A pub of the same stood on this junction when it was originally a roundabout, long before the much needed underpass was built
London City Island,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
currently occupied by Pura Foods stuff group, manufacturers of vegatable oils and cooking fats etc
Holiday Inn Express London - Stratford,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
prior to being a hotel this was the site of the "Greenman Pub"
Ludgate Circus,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
One of the original gates to the City. The four original gates were on the North, South, East, and West.
They were Aldersgate to the north of the city.
Ludgate to the west of the city.
Aldgate to the east of the city, and the Bridge Gate to the south, over London Bridge at Southwark end.
At the start of the 14th century, there were many gates which had been added over the years. Some, like the one next to the Tower, had long since disappeared, leaving only crumbling stone and foundations.
There were seven main gates, with Newgate being the last addition. The others being Bishopsgate, Moorgate, and Cripplegate. For some reason, the Bridgegate, the eighth, is not counted among them. They were, and still are referred to collectively as the “Seven gates to the City” Unfortunately none of the original structures have survived and they exist in name only today.
The eigth gate (and largely forgotton) is Traitors gate at the Tower of London, although this is only a one way gate
Clink Prison,
bakerloo_badboy (guest)
wrote
17 years ago:
Being in prison is often referred to as "being in Clink" This comes from the clinking noise that the ankel chains made as the prisoners shuffled around their cells
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