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The most famous address in Downing Street is
10 Downing Street , the residence of the Prime
Minister.
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Larry , the Downing Street cat
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Is a combined bascule and suspension bridge over
the Thames . It has become an iconic symbol
of London.
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Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public
space of West End , built in 1819 to
connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly.
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London Eye was formally opened by the then
Prime Minister , Tony Blair , on 31 December
1999.
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Is a popular privately-run museum , dedicated to
the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
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It opened in 1990 and is situated in
Baker Street.
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John H . Watson
lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904,according to the
stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Is a wax museum in London with branches
in a number of major cities . It was
founded by sculptor Marie Tussaud .
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Marie Tussaud , was born Anna Marie Grosholtz(1761-1850)in
Strasbourg , France.
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Tussaud created her first was figure, of Voltaire,
in 1777.Other famous people she created at that time
include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.
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By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker
Street ,London and opened a museum . One of
the main attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors.
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The London Underground , Underground or Tube is
a rapid transit system serving a large part of
Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex ,Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK.
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The first section opened in 1863,and was the
first underground railway system in the world , and
, starting in 1890,it was also the first to operate electric trains.
The Underground has 270 stations and about 400km of track, making it the longest metro system in the world by route length . It also has one of the highest number of stations.
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In 2007,more than one billion passenger journeys were
recorded , making it the third busiest metro system
in Europe after Paris and Moscow.
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London Zoo is the oldest scientific zoo in
the world. It was opened in London on 27
April 1828,and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study . It was eventually opened to the public in 1847.
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Today it houses a collection of 755 species
of animals , with 16,802 individuals , making it
one of the largest collections in the United Kingdom.
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Meerkats pups at the London Zoo.
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The Royal Family . The British Royal Family
is the group of close relatives of the monarch
of the United Kingdom.
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HM The Queen Elizabeth and HRH The Duke
of Edinburgh.
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Prince Charles , Prince Harry and Prince William.