London English Facts

- during England was conquered by the Angeln and Sax London has no importance - with the conquest of the Normanns came upturn - (William the conqueror was first king who was crowned in the Westminster Abbey - in the end of the 12 century the citizens? elected her first mayor - 1348 first plaque black death - 1665 renewed plaque (Great Plaque and the Great Fire destroey the town - in the 19 century the number of inhabitant incresed immense - in the first world war, no damage in London - in the second ww the air strikes destroyed nearly all the town (10 000 were killed and 17 000 iniured persons - but till the end of the fifties the most was rebuilt Buildings / Sights - Post Office Tower constuct in 1965, height: 189 m - National Westminster Bank Building was built 1979, height 183 m - highest building (224 m) the Canary Wharf Towrk in Docklands -Saint Paul?s Cathedral - which have a 110 m dome, was built after 1666, architect: Christopher Wren - Big Ben bell tower of the House of Paliament, named after the politican Sir Benjamin Hall, bell weight: 13, 5 tonne (tan) - Tower of London it was the exprison, was built by William the Conqueror in defence - Tower Bridge was finished 1894, bridge over Themse at the Tower of London - House of Parliament British Central Office of Information - Buckingham Palace in district Westminster, residence of the brit. Queen - Westminster Abbey since 1066 the place where kings and queens are crowed - London Dungeon cabinet of spook near the Tower Bridge - Madame Tussard?s Museum, where famous personalities are showed as wax figures The Town - East, North/East: an area where mainly workers live (East End - home of immigrants, it is poor but lively an industryly - West, North/West of the City: Inns of Court - West: Bloomsbury, the favourite place of intelectual in the twenties - West End from downtown to the West: famous theatre an shopping streets - (in the South of WE: South Bank Arts Complex (National Theatre, Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery) - South: district of administration, district of the gouvernment with the Whitehall- Palace of Westminster seat of parliament - Saint James Palace (where the Prince of Wales live) - Buckingham Palace (the residence of the Queen in London) London?s cultural diversity - Museums - British Museum in Bloomsbury (biggest and famous museum global with 6 Mio Ausstellungsstucken of all type and the brit. State library) - Victotia and Albert Museum in South Kensington (art treasures from all over the world) - ...