Kings Reach Tower (1972-78)
Home to our old friends the NME and IPC Media, ...
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Tower 42 (1970-81), Old Broad Street
Tower 42, or NatWest Tower as it was originally...
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Centre Point (1959-66), off New Oxford Street
We’re all familiar with Centre Point. It rises ...
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One Kemble Street, off Kingsway, (1964-68)
Even to the most architecturally illiterate, On...
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Sheraton Park Tower Hotel (1968-73)
The third generation inherits none of the charm...
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Drapers Gardens (1962-67)
Drapers Gardens (far right) is a much disliked ...
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Royal Garden Hotel (1965; reclad 1997) Kensington High Street and Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Bayswater Road
Neither of these buildings are iconic or of any...
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Head of Invention, Butler’s Wharf (1989)
Well, we’re not really sure what this one’s cal...
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Newton, forecourt of the British Library (1995)
Just down the road from Paolozzi’s Piscator sit...
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Cooling tower panels, Pimlico (1979-82)
Blink, and you’ll miss it. Never go to Pimlico ...
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Piscator, forecourt of Euston Station (1980)
This isn’t one of Paolozzi’s best, but it’s not...
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Underground murals, Tottenham Court Road Tube (1980-86)
Now these are just incredible. If you’ve never ...
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The Artist as Hephaestus, 34-36 High Holborn (1987)
Man, machine, mingled and meshed. This is, some...
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Crucifixion, College Gardens, Westminster Abbey (1974)
This, the earliest Plazzotta work in London, ea...
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Jeté, Millbank, South of Tate Britain (1975)
A ballerina foolishly leaps from his stuccoed p...
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Homage to Leonardo, Belgrave Square (1982)
Just to confuse matters, works exist of this na...
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Young Dancer, Broad Street, Covent Garden (unveiled 1988)
Because of its location, close to the heart of ...
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BMA building, Strand (1908)
The 18 statuettes (see picture at top) that ado...
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WH Hudson Memorial, Rima figure (1925)
In an obscure and forgotten acre of Hyde Park, ...
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Day and Night, 55 Broadway (1928)
This iconic building was constructed in the 193...
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The Hovering Madonna, Cavendish Square (1952)
This one is beautiful, whether you’re religious...
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Smuts, Parliament Square (1956)
The only statue by Epstein (that we could find)...
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Rush of Green, Edinburgh Gate (1959)
Here, Epstein shows off his prowess with bronze...
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Trellick Tower, Westbourne Park (1972)
The example par excellence of the architectural...
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Balfron Tower, Brownfield Estate, Poplar (1964)
Look familiar? The Balfron Tower was a forerunn...
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Metro Central Heights, Elephant & Castle (1966)
On the face of it, this residential block is po...
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2 Willow Road, Hampstead (1939)
An early Goldfinger design, 2 Willow Road is a ...
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French Tourist Office (1956), Piccadilly
This hum-drum office block is notable for the ‘...
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45-46 Albermarle Street
Another drab Goldfinger office building, whose ...
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St George’s Bloomsbury (1716-1731)
Currently undergoing extensive restoration work...
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St Mary Woolnoth (1716-1727)
Hawksmoor’s only City church lies hidden away b...
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Christ Church, Spitalfields (1715-1729)
Perhaps his most famous church, certainly the m...
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St George in the East (1714-1729)
Standing in the windswept plain of The Highway,...
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St Anne’s, Limehouse (1730)
There’s a feeling of isolation and unease about...
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St Alphege, Greenwich (1712-1714)
A towering memorial to the oddly named saint, w...
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Palace of Westminster
While we sometimes get annoyed with the hoards ...
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Trinity Church, Cloudesley Square
Clearly modeled on Kings College, Cambridge. Wh...
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St Pauls, Balls Pond Road
Barry church in Islington
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St John’s, Holloway Road
Barry church in Islington
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Reform Club and Traveller's Club
Pall Mall remains a bastion of upper-class Brit...
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Bridgewater House, Cleveland Row (1847-50)
A stupendous pile, designed the house for the F...
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Old Treasury Building, Whitehall (1844-47)
Nobody ever notices this building as we’re all ...
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Royal College of Surgeons (1835)
This impressive, ionic-order building to the So...
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127-129 Holborn (1904)
Holden’s London career opened fairly decently w...
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Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane (1902-4)
This Chancery Lane affair is essentially classi...
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Zimbabwe House, 429 Strand (1907-8)
We’ve been here before. Long-time readers will ...
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55 Broadway (1927-29)
The headquarters of the London Underground, and...
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Senate House (1932-37)
Whether or not you know the first thing about a...
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Cockfosters Tube

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Southgate Tube
Tube, Holden
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Arnos Grove Tube
Tube, Holden
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Bounds Green Tube
Holden, Tube
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Wood Green Tube

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Oakwood Station

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Turnpike Lane Tube

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East Finchley Tube

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Acton Town Tube

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Chiswick Park Tube

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Ealing Common Tube

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Osterley Tube

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Hounslow West Tube

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Sudbury Town Tube

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Ruislip Manor Tube

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Boston Manor Tube

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Alperton Tube

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Sudbury Hill Tube

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Manor House Tube

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Northfields Tube

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Park Royal Tube

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Rayners Lane Tube

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Clapham South Tube

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Tooting Bec Tube

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Tooting Broadway Tube

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Morden Tube

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Balham Tube

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Colliers Wood Tube

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South Wimbledon Tube

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Piccadilly Circus Tube

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Hartnoll Road
Sort of, almost sounds like Hartnell Road. The ...
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Troughton Road
Home of the second Dr Who?
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Baker Street
Home of the fourth and sixth Dr Whos?
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Davison Drive
Home of the fifth Dr Who?
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Pertwee Drive
Home of the third Dr Who?
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Eccleston Square
Home of the ninth Dr Who?
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Tennants Row
Home of the tenth Dr Who?
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Master Close
Home of Dr Who's arch enemy?
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Shad Thames (Resurrection of the Daleks)

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Albert Bridge (Logopolis)

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Trafalgar Square (Dalek Invasion of Earth)

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Albert Memorial (Dalek Invasion of Earth)

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Wimbledon Common Windmill (The Massacre)

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BT Tower (The War Machines)

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Covent Garden (The War Machines)

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St Pauls steps (The Invasion)

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Ealing High Street (Spearheads from space)

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Lea Bridge Road (Terror of the Autons)

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Moorgate Station (Invasion of the dinosaurs)

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Cornwall Gardens (Mind of Evil)

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Lambeth Bridge (Terror of the Zygons)

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Clink Street (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

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Wapping Old Stairs (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

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Trent Park (Mawdryn Undead)

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Willesden Lane Cemetery (Remembrance of the Daleks)

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Tardis at Earls Court

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London, England

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(I don't want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello and the Attractions

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Soho Square - Kirsty MacColl

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Camden Town - Suggs

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April in King's Cross - The Tyrrel Corporation

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Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

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Towers of London: XTC

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The Hampstead Therapist - Edward Ball

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Primrose Hill - Madness

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Blackfriars Bridge - The Men They Couldn't Hang

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Guns of Brixton - The Clash

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Come back to Camden - Morrissey

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Battersea Bardot - The Pearlfishes

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The Laughter on Ganton Street - The Band of Holy Joy

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The Mill Hill Self Hate Club - Edward Ball

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Brixton Cat - Rico & The Rudies

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Misty morning, Albert Bridge - The Pogues

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Kilburn High Road, Shack

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Limehouse Lady - Arthur Kay & the Originals

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Limehouse Blues - Django Reinhardt

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White City - The Pogues

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Portobello Belle - Dire Straits

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Portobello Road - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

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Bond Street - Burt Bacharach

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89 St James Square - Monty

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A rainy night in Soho - The Pogues

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Bar Italia - Pulp

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The Count of Clerkenwell - Arthur Kay and the Originals

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Willesden to Cricklewood - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

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Willesden to Cricklewood - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

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Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

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Rossmore Road - Barry Andrews

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King's Cross - Pet Shop Boys

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Mile End - Pulp

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London Bridge - Fergie

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London Bridge is Falling Down - Traditional

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A bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam

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Angels over Kilburn, Hope of the States

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Ann Boleyn (The Bloody Tower), RP Weston and Bert Lee

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Archway People, St Etienne

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Ballad of Torrens Street, Killing Miranda

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Black Boy Lane, Babyshambles

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Blue Room in Archway, The Boo Radleys

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Bollywood to Battersea, Babyshambles

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Brompton Oratory, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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Carnaby Street, The Jam

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Charlotte Street, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

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Chelsea Girl, Ride

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Chelsea Walk, Ocean Colour Scene

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Chelsea Girl, Simple Minds

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Chelsea Monday, Marillion

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Denmark Street, The Kinks

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Do the Strand, Roxy Music

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Don't go back to Dalston, Razorlight

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Down at the Old Bull and Bush, Hunting, Krone, Stirling and Von Tilzer

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Downing Street Kindling, Larrikin Love

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Electric Avenue, Eddie Grant

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Euston Station, The Oyster Band

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Finchley Central, The New Vaudeville Band

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Goldhawk Road, Dustin's Bar Mitzvah

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Hampstead Incident, Donovan

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Harrow Road, Big Audio Dynamite

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Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square

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The Kilburn High Road, Flogging Molly

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Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Rd, Albert Chevalier

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Lambeth Walk, Noel Gay

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Lavendar Hill, The Real Tuesday Weld

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Leicester Square, Rancid

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Let's all go down the Strand, Traditional

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Living in Tottenham, Frank Chickens

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Maid of Tottenham, Traditional

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Maid of Bond Street, David Bowie

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Mayfair, Nick Drake

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Midnight in Chelsea, Bon Jovi

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Mornington Crescent, Belle and Sebastian

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Muswell Hillbillies, The Kinks

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A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, Maschwitz and Sherwin

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Oxford Street, Everything But the Girl

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Piccadilly, Squeeze

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Piccadilly Palare, Morrissey

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The Piccadilly Trail, The Style Council

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Plaistow Patricia, Ian Dury

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The Prettiest Star (Gloucester Road), David Bowie

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Primrose Hill, John Martyn and Beverley Martyn

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Richmond, The Faces

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Seven Sisters Road, Dan Reed Network

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Solo in Soho, Phil Lynott

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Soho, Bert Jansch And John Renbourn

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Soho needless to say, Al Stewart

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Soho Strut, Secret Affair

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Suicide on Downing Street, Tim Finn

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Sunny Goodge Street, Donovan

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Sunny South Kensington, Donovan

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Tower of London, ABC

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Twenty-Four Minutes from Tulse Hill, Carter USM

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Walking down the King's Road, Squire

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Westminster Chimes, Sonic Youth

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White City Fighting, Pete Townsend

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(White man) in Hammersmith Palais, The Clash

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Willesden Green, The Kinks

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The Wine Bars of Old Hampstead Town, Alexi Sayle

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The Only Living Boy in New Cross, Carter USM

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UCL Hospital (Litvinenko treated and later died here)

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Highgate cemetary (Litvinenko buried here 7 Dec 2006)

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Millennium Hotel (7 bar staff test positive for polonium)
Hotel in which Litvinenko met an associate, Dmi...
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Itso Sushi (Litvinenko meets Italian magistrate)

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Parkes Hotel (traces of polonium found)

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1 Cavendish Place (traces of polonium)

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25 Grosvenor Street (offices visited by Litvinenko)

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7 Down Street (offices visited by Litvinenko)

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Ossier Crescent (Litvinenko's home)

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Barnet General Hospital

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Sheraton Park Lane

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Heathrow (2 jets test positive for polonium)

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58 Grosvenor Street

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1. Great Eastern Walk
Where? Runs alongside Liverpool Street Station,...
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2. Brunswick Square to Mecklenburgh Square
2. Brunswick Square to Mecklenburgh Square Whe...
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3. Brydges Place
Where? Connects St Martin’s Lane (next to the E...
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4. Ely Court, EC1
Where? Semi-visible snicket linking the enigmat...
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5. Johnson’s Court, EC4
Where? Part of that baffling network of passage...
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6. Crown Passage, SW1
Where? There can’t be many shortcuts that lead ...
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7. Colonnade
Where? Turn right out of Russell Square Tube, d...
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8. Wild Court, WC2
Where? Relatively spacious route connecting Kin...
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9. French Ordinary Court
Where? In an area of the City where unlikely st...
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10. Took’s Court
Where? Piddling little dogleg to the East of Ch...
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12. St Chad's Place
Where? Dingy little dogleg behind King's Cross ...
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13. Pilgrim Street
Where? That set of steps you see leads up from ...
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14. New Turnstile
Where? Refurbished shortcut at the back of Holb...
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15. Lazenby Court
Where?Short alley connecting Floral Street to R...
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16. Lamb's Conduit Passage
Where? North-east corner of Red Lion Square, co...
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17. Shepherd Market
Where? A little north-east of fragrant Hyde Par...
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18. Princes Arcade
Where? One of several upper-class tunnels in SW...
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11. St Bride's Avenue
Where? Part of a warren of similarly ancient th...
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81 Newman Street

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28 Rupert Street

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22 Berwick Street

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18 Kingly Street

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6 Bennet Street

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Former Blue Posts
From historical source. No longer there.
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19. St Christopher's PLace
Where? A clement thoroughfare connecting Oxford...
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Pescatori restaurant

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20. Faulkner's Alley
Where? Runs parallel to Turnmill Street, betwee...
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Clerkenwell Road

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Clerkenwell Sessions House
Possibly now removed. Shows a ghost from pac-man.
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Flitcroft Street

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King John Court

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St Anne's Court

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Brick Lane
Image from Art of the State http://www.artofthe...
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Greek Street
From Art of the State http://www.artofthestate....
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Shelly's Neal Street
Photo from Art of the State
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Neal Street post
Image from Art of the State
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Neal's Yard
Image taken from Jackace's Flickr photostream. ...
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Bedford Avenue
Image taken from Jackace's Flickr photostream h...
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Old Brewer's Yard
Photo taken from Ruminatrix's Flickr photostream
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Leonard Street
Image taken from Bravo 99's Flickr Photostream ...
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Bayford Road
Image taken from The East's Flickr photostream ...
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Manette Street
Photo taken from Lonesome Cowboy Glen's Flickr ...
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Vicars Hill
Taken from BurntOutCar's Flickr Photostream
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Burlington Gardens
Taken from russ9595's Flickr photostream http:/...
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London Bridge
Image taken from Jackace's Flickr photostream h...
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21. Cecil Court
Where? Short pedestrian route between Charing C...
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22. Cloth Court
Where? Barely visible on most maps, this little...
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23. Exchange Court
Where? A sibling to Bull Inn Court, running dow...
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15. Bull Inn Court
Where? Long, sloping alley dropping from Maiden...
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24. Artillery Passage
Where? Surviving bastion of the Ripper's London...
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25. Meard Street
Where? Part-pedestrianised route in the heart o...
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26. Silver Place
Where? Sticking in Soho for another week, this ...
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Curtain Road
Curtain Road
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Westminster Bridge

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Bear Gardens

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Lindsey Street

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28. Roman Wall passage
Where? Just north of Tower Hill (see map below)...
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27. Cobb's Court
Where? Northern strand in a City cavalcade of p...
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Gray's Inn Road

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29. Angel Place
Where? SE1, close to Borough Tube and St George...
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30. Holly Bush Steps
Where? Steep cutting leading up from the west s...
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31. Platform 1, King's Cross
Where? Erm, King's Cross. But it's more than ju...
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