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LONDON – Sea Life – Swimming Gentoo Penguin – Breed, Rescue, ProtectBy sharing the wonder and beauty of our oceans, we hope you’ll learn to love them as much as we do. Sea Life London Aquarium located on the ground floor of County Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames in central London allows visitors to [...]
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LONDON – Sea Life – Breed, Rescue, Protect – SharkSharks have lived in our oceans for more than 450 million years! That’s long before dinosaurs first walked the earth. Their brains have evolved to become more intelligent and devoted to their senses – mainly their ability to smell. There are o [...]
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LONDON – Emirates Stadium – Arsenal FCThe Emirates Stadium (known as Ashburton Grove prior to sponsorship) is a football stadium in Holloway, London, England, and the home of Arsenal Football Club. With a capacity of 60,272, the Emirates is the third-largest football stadium in En [...]
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LONDON – The London Eye – London LandmarksYou can spend a lifetime in London and hardly scratch the surface of this amazing, powerful European capital. It's full of landmarks and world-class attractions, royal beauty, parks, palaces and everything in between. With countless landmarks [...]
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LONDON – The London Eye – FireworksThe annual New Year's Eve Fireworks display, launched from the foot of the London Eye (Millennium Wheel) and from rafts on the Thames, is visible from most of central London: the basic rule is that if you can see the London Eye, you'll be able [...]
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LONDON – The London Eye Capsules – Close upThe wheel's 32 sealed and air-conditioned ovoidal passenger capsules, designed and supplied by Poma, are attached to the external circumference of the wheel and rotated by electric motors. Each of the 10-tonne (11-short-ton) capsules represent [...]
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YORK – The Southern Railway Company – Incorporated 1923The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent. The railway was formed by [...]
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YORK – Midland and Scottish Railway CompanyThe London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four. The companies merg [...]
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YORK – Great Western Railway CompanyThe Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 183 [...]
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LONDON – Emirates – High Pole with Cable CarsThe service, announced in July 2010 and estimated to cost £60 million, comprises a 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) gondola line that crosses the Thames from the Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks. Construction began in August 2011. The cable car is [...]
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LONDON – Emirates – Cable Car with the Background SceneryThe Emirates Air Line is a cable car crossing the River Thames in Greenwich, and the 1km journey gives passengers spectacular views of London from a height of up to 90m (295ft).As well as the incredible views of the Thames Barrier, the skyscra [...]
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LONDON – Emirates – Pole and Cable CarOn 4 July 2010 Transport for London announced plans to develop a cable car crossing over the River Thames. It is the first urban cable car in the United Kingdom. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Expedition Engineering and Buro Happold, i [...]
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LONDON – Emirates – Cable Car DepartureThe Emirates Air Line is a ten-minute gondola lift link across the River Thames in London, England built by Doppelmayr with sponsorship from the airline Emirates. The service opened on 28 June 2012 and is operated by Transport for London. In a [...]
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YORK – The Seal of the London and North Eastern Railway CompanyThe LNER was one of the 'Big Four' Railway Companies formed during the 1923 Grouping Act in Britain. As such it barely lasted 25 years, but in this time left a prestigious mark in British railway history. Even today, the LNER's Gresley Pacific [...]
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WARWICK – Sir Thomas MedalThomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, KG (c. 14 February 1313 – 13 November 1369) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. In 1348 he became one of the founders and the third Knight of the Order of the [...]
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LONDON – Madame Tussauds – The Imperial State CrownThe Imperial State Crown is one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdomand symbolises the sovereigntyof the monarch. The crown has existed in several versions since the 15th century. The modern version of the Imperial State Crown is of a des [...]
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LONDON – Madame Tussauds – City of London – CrestCity of London Crest - The coat of arms is 'anciently recorded' at the College of Arms. It was in use in 1381, forming part of the design of a new mayoralty seal taken into use on 17 April of that year. The crest and supporters came into use i [...]
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MANCHESTER – Manchester United – Fred the RedFred the Red - The current Manchester United mascot, Fred the Red represents the club's nickname, The Red Devils. He wears a shirt with the number 55 on it and usually dances in front of the crowd before matches. Fred the Red was voted the mos [...]
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MANCHESTER – Manchester United – The TrinityThe Trinity - On 29 May 2008, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Manchester United's first European Cup title, a statue of the club's 'holy trinity' of George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton, entitled 'The United Trinity', was unveiled ac [...]
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MANCHESTER – Manchester United – Sir Alex FergussonSir Alexander 'Alex' Ferguson, CBE (born 31 December 1941) is a former Scottish football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. His time at the club has led to Ferguson being regarded as one of the most admired and [...]
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