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Westminster, London

Description: South from Trafalgar Square, along Whitehall and southwest along the Mall up to Buckingham Palace. Also home to the ... more

Westminster, London ... Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.

Newest Review: ... to admit this, but walking through Parliament Square as it ‘bongs’ the time always gives me shivers, even though I hear it at least twice a day. There’s something very robust and reassuring about it, and something very ‘London’. You can feel all the history of the city with each chime. In the Blitz in 1941 the House of Commons was completely destroyed, but Big ... more

... Ben still stood, never missing a stroke, and I really like that. I also like how it always looks majestic – against a brilliant blue sky on a summer day, against a blanket of darkness in the silence of the night (chugging night buses excepted), a...more

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Westminster, London: Big Ben's Bongs (1758 words)
by - written on 11/10/01 (Very useful, 1792 readings)
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Why don’t people want to write about the neighbourhoods of London? Tsk. I keep checking back on this section, but not a dicky bird. Ho hum. I’ll just have to do the decent thing, I suppose. Right. Westminster. (By the way, I’m reviewing the district and not the borough. Did you know that Oxford Street, Soho, Chinatown, Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden – in fact about 80% of London’s tourist attractions – are in the borough of Westminster? If I get bogged down in all that gubbins, this op is going to be of publishable length.) Ahem. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please ... Read the complete review