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Archive for 14 September 2009

Photo Of The Week: London Ice Sculpture in Covent Garden

Covent Garden Ice Sculpture of Big Ben

London’s officially cool and here’s the proof!

Covent Garden unveiled a three-tonne London skyline sculpture made of ice on the piazza over the weekend. As it’s been lovely and sunny in London over the last couple of days, the scuplture has now melted…

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Visit London Asks: What’s Your Favourite Period in London’s History?

Mayor Boris Johnson launched Disney's A Christmas Carol in New York yesterday

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With news announced yesterday that London will be heading back to Victorian times this Christmas with the exciting world premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol and Christmas Carol themed Christmas lights in the West End, we’ve been discussing London’s history here at VL towers.

So, imaginative thinking caps on. We want to know, if you were given a time machine, which period of London’s history would you most like to travel back to?!

Would you be interested in galloping across to Hampton Court Palace with Henry VIII and his Tudor court?

Or maybe you’d like to pop into an 18th century coffee house, and witness the new revolutionary age of pamphlets and trade and Enlightenment.

Perhaps you’re another fan of Dickens’ Victorian London, and would like to go back to the golden age of railway with stations like St Pancras; new buildings like the Houses of Parliament, and the Royal Albert Hall; the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the wonderful Crystal Palace.

Or would you rather swing with Twiggy and The Stones in Carnaby Street in the 1960s? Let us know!

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