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  1. 172 relations: A Night to Remember (book), A4200 road, Adele Astaire, Adie, Button and Partners, Aldford House, Alfred Beit, Alfred Munnings, AllMusic, Animals in War Memorial, Anna Neagle, Anne, Princess Royal, Apartment, Apsley House, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aston Martin, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Begging, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Benjamin Disraeli, Berkeley Square, Blue plaque, BMW, Board game, Bond Street, Boris Johnson, British Iron and Steel Research Association, Brook House (Park Lane), Brunei Investment Agency, Cecil Day-Lewis, Central line (London Underground), Central London, Characters in the Thursday Next series, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical), City of Westminster, Coming Up for Air, Conservative Party (UK), Contact lens, Croxteth Hall, Cycling, Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Decimus Burton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, Dorchester Collection, Dorchester House, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dual carriageway, Dudley House, London, Duke of Somerset, ... Expand index (122 more) »

A Night to Remember (book)

A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord that depicts the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' on 15 April 1912.

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A4200 road

The A4200 is a major thoroughfare in central London.

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Adele Astaire

Adele Astaire Douglass (born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981) was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer.

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Adie, Button and Partners

Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed Stockwell Garage, a large bus depot in Stockwell, London, which opened in 1952 and is still in use.

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Aldford House

Aldford House was a grand mansion built on London's Park Lane in 1894–97 for the diamond magnate, Alfred Beit.

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Alfred Beit

Alfred Beit (15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906) was an Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent.

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Alfred Munnings

Sir Alfred James Munnings, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) is known as having been one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Animals in War Memorial

The Animals in War Memorial is a war memorial, in Hyde Park, London, commemorating the countless animals that have served and died under British military command throughout history.

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Anna Neagle

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer.

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Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is a member of the British royal family.

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Apartment

An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Apsley House

Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Begging

Begging (also panhandling) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation.

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Benjamin Dean Wyatt

Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1775–1852) was an English architect, part of the Wyatt family.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. Park Lane and Berkeley Square are Mayfair.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW, is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use.

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Bond Street

Bond Street in the West End of London links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. Park Lane and Bond Street are Mayfair and streets in the City of Westminster.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

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British Iron and Steel Research Association

The British Iron and Steel Research Association or BISRA, formed in 1944, was the research arm of the British steel industry.

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Brook House (Park Lane)

Brook House was a mansion and is now a block of flats in Mayfair, a prestigious and expensive district of central London.

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Brunei Investment Agency

The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) is a government-owned corporation that reports to the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Brunei.

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Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972.

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Central line (London Underground)

The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from, Essex, in the north-east to and in west London.

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Central London

Central London is the innermost part of London, in England, spanning the City of London and several boroughs.

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Characters in the Thursday Next series

The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot.

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Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry

Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peer and politician.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical with music and lyrics written by Richard and Robert Sherman and a book by Jeremy Sams.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England.

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Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air is the seventh book and fourth novel by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes.

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Croxteth Hall

Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England.

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Cycling

Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle.

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Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

During the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a fatal car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France.

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Decimus Burton

Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Dodi Fayed

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed (15 April 195531 August 1997), commonly known as Dodi Fayed, was an Egyptian film producer and the eldest child of the businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.

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Dorchester Collection

Dorchester Collection is a luxury hotel operator owned by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), an arm of the Ministry of Finance of Brunei.

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Dorchester House

Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, Westminster, London, which had many different forms over time.

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (BrE) or a divided highway (AmE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE).

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Dudley House, London

Dudley House is a Grade II* listed house with located at 100 Park Lane in the Mayfair area of London, England.

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Duke of Somerset

Duke of Somerset, from the county of Somerset, is a title that has been created five times in the peerage of England.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Earl of Holderness

The title Earl of Holderness also known as Holdernesse existed in the late 11th and early 12th centuries as a feudal lordship and was officially created three times in the Peerage of England namely in 1621, in 1644 as a subsidiary title to that of the then-Duke of Cumberland and in 1682.

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Earl of Rosebery

Earl of Rosebery is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1703 for Archibald Primrose, 1st Viscount of Rosebery, with remainder to his issue male and female successively.

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Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry

Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (née Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

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Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960), was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last vicereine of India as the wife of (the then) Rear Admiral The 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Expurgation

An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media.

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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

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Four-wheel drive

A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter.

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Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas

The Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas, commonly shortened to A–Z (pronounced "Ay to Zed"), is a title given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom produced by Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Governor-General of India

The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.

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GQ

GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Green Park

The Green Park, one of the Royal Parks of London, is in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Grosvenor House

Grosvenor House was one of the largest townhouses in London, home of the Grosvenor family (the family of the Dukes of Westminster) for more than a century.

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Grosvenor House Hotel

JW Marriott Grosvenor House London, formerly the Grosvenor House Hotel, is a luxury hotel that opened in 1929 in the Mayfair area of London, England.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Herbert Wilcox

Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and director.

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Hertford Street

Hertford Street is a street in central London's Mayfair district. Park Lane and Hertford Street are Mayfair and streets in the City of Westminster.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was an unpaid armed citizen militia supporting the 'Home Forces' of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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Horse & Hound

Horse & Hound is the oldest equestrian weekly magazine of the United Kingdom.

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Hotel Bel-Air

The Hotel Bel-Air is a boutique hotel located in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California.

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Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster

Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.

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Hyde Park Corner

Hyde Park Corner is between Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Mayfair in London, England. Park Lane and Hyde Park Corner are streets in the City of Westminster.

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Hyde Park Corner tube station

Hyde Park Corner is a London Underground station near Hyde Park Corner in Hyde Park.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.

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InterContinental London Park Lane

InterContinental London Park Lane is a luxury five-star hotel in London, England operated by the InterContinental Hotels Group.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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Keith Clifford Hall

Keith Clifford Hall (born 29 March 1910, Cambridge - d. 16 December 1964, Bergen) was a British ophthalmic optician and pioneer of contact lenses.

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Le Meurice

Le Meurice is a Brunei-owned five-star luxury hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli.

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1957

This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1957.

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List of bus routes in London

This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches).

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List of sultans of Brunei

The Sultan of Brunei is the monarchical head of state of Brunei and head of government in his capacity as prime minister of Brunei.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Locked-room mystery

The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction.

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London Buses

London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages most bus services in London, England.

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London Buses route 13

London Buses route 13 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 137

London Buses route 137 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 16

London Buses route 16 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 2

London Buses route 2 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 23

London Buses route 23 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 36

London Buses route 36 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 6

London Buses route 6 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 74

London Buses route 74 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London congestion charge

The London congestion charge is a fee charged on most cars and motor vehicles being driven within the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) in Central London between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm Monday to Friday, and between 12:00 noon and 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday.

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London Hilton on Park Lane

The London Hilton on Park Lane is a hotel situated on Park Lane, overlooking Hyde Park in the exclusive Mayfair district of London.

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London Inner Ring Road

The London Inner Ring Road, or Ring Road as signposted, is a route with an average diameter of formed from a number of major roads that encircle Central London.

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London Pride (song)

"London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.

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Londonderry House

Londonderry House was an aristocratic townhouse situated on Park Lane in the Mayfair district of London, England.

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Lord Mountbatten

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.

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Marble Arch

The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England.

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Marble Arch tube station

Marble Arch is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster.

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Marquess of Londonderry

Marquess of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Marriott London Park Lane

London Marriott Hotel Park Lane is a hotel in London, England.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Mayor of London

The mayor of London is the chief executive of the Greater London Authority.

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz, commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926.

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Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.

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Mini Countryman

The Mini Countryman, also called Mini Crossover in Japan, is a subcompact crossover SUV, the first vehicle of this type to be launched by BMW under the Mini marque.

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Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mohamed Al-Fayed (27 January 192930 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman, whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.

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Moses Montefiore

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Night buses in London

The London Night Bus network is a series of night bus routes that serve Greater London.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Nouveau riche

paren), new rich or new money (in contrast to old money; vieux riche) is a social class of the rich whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation, rather than by familial inheritance. These people previously had belonged to a lower social class and economic stratum (rank) within that class and the term implies that the new money, which constitutes their wealth, allowed upward social mobility and provided the means for conspicuous consumption, the buying of goods and services that signal membership in an upper class.

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Owen Williams (engineer)

Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was an English engineer and architect, known for being the principal engineer for the original Wembley Stadium, and later Gravelly Hill Interchange (known popularly as Spaghetti Junction) as well as a number of key modernist buildings, including the Express Building in Manchester and the D10 and D6 Buildings at the Boots Factory Site in Nottingham.

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Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. Park Lane and Oxford Street are streets in the City of Westminster.

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Park Lane Mews Hotel

The Park Lane Mews Hotel (formerly the Hilton London Mews Hotel) is a luxury 4-star boutique hotel in London's Mayfair district.

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Penthouse apartment

A penthouse is an apartment or unit traditionally on the highest floor of an apartment building, condominium, hotel, or tower.

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Philip Sassoon

Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, (4 December 1888 – 3 June 1939) was a British politician, art collector, and socialite, entertaining many celebrity guests at his homes, Port Lympne Mansion, Kent, and Trent Park, North London.

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Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a road in the City of Westminster, London, England, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. Park Lane and Piccadilly are Mayfair and streets in the City of Westminster.

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Piccadilly line

The Piccadilly line is a deep-level London Underground line running from the north to the west of London.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.

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Reform Act 1867

The Representation of the People Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), known as the Reform Act 1867 or the Second Reform Act, is an act of the British Parliament that enfranchised part of the urban male working class in England and Wales for the first time.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Sharp (politician)

Richard Sharp, FRS, FSA (1759 – 30 March 1835), also known as "Conversation" Sharp, was an English hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalist.

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Road

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.

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Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter, best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M. Sherman.

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Scotland Road

Scotland Road, known locally as Scottie Road, is the section of the A59 road situated near the docks in the Vauxhall district of north Liverpool, England.

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Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel

The Sheraton Grand London Park Lane is a 5 Star hotel on Piccadilly, London.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Shirley Porter

Dame Shirley, Lady Porter DBE (née Cohen; born 29 November 1930), is a British politician who led Westminster City Council in London from 1983 to 1991, representing the Conservative Party.

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Sidney Stanley

Sidney Stanley (né Solomon Wulkan, 1899/1905–1969) alias Solomon Koszyski,Wade Baron (1966) p.161 alias Stanley Rechtand,Wade Baron (1966) p.136 and alias Schlomo ben Chaim,Wade Baron (1966) p.246 was a Polish émigré to the UK who became an unethical businessman before claiming to be a contact man who could influence politicians and civil servants in exchange for cash bribes.

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Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet

Joseph Benjamin Robinson, (3 August 1840 – 30 October 1929) was a South African gold and diamond mining magnate and Randlord.

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Somerset House, Park Lane

Somerset House (built 1769–70; demolished 1915), was an 18th-century town house on the east side of Park Lane, where it meets Oxford Street, in the Mayfair area of London.

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Sports car

A sports car is a type of car that is designed with an emphasis on dynamic performance, such as handling, acceleration, top speed, the thrill of driving, and racing capability.

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SUV

A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a car classification that combines elements of road-going passenger cars with features from off-road vehicles, such as raised ground clearance and four-wheel drive.

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The Adventure of the Empty House

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Beverly Hills Hotel

The Beverly Hills Hotel, also called the Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, is located on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California.

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The Dorchester

The Dorchester is a five-star hotel located on Park Lane and Deanery Street in London, to the east of Hyde Park.

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The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.

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The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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The Forsyte Saga (1967 TV series)

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy.

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The Free Dictionary

The Free Dictionary is an American online dictionary and encyclopedia that aggregates information from various sources.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States.

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Townhouse

A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing.

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Traffic congestion

Traffic congestion is a condition in transport that is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.

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Traffic light

Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – also known as robots in South Africa and Namibia – are signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control the flow of traffic.

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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom.

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Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard)

Trevor Rees-Jones (also known as Trevor Rees; born 3 March 1968) is a British author and former bodyguard who was badly injured in the car crash in Paris that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.

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Tyburn

Tyburn was a manor (estate) in the county of Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone.

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Upper Grosvenor Street

Upper Grosvenor Street is a one-way Georgian street in Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. Park Lane and Upper Grosvenor Street are Mayfair and streets in the City of Westminster.

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.

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Waddingtons

Waddingtons was a British manufacturer of card and board games.

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Walter Lord

John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', A Night to Remember.

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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Wolfgang Puck

Wolfgang Johannes Puck (born July 8, 1949 in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria) is an Austrian chef and restaurateur.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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2007 London car bombs

On 29 June 2007, two car bombs in London were discovered and disabled before they could be detonated.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Lane

Also known as A4202, A4202 road, A4202 road (Great Britain), Park Lane (road), Park Lane Improvement Act 1958, Park Lane, Knightsbridge, London, Park Lane, London, Park Lane, Mayfair.

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