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London and Transport
In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.
The background to this purchase relates to the requirement that TfL ( who took over from London Regional Transport in 2000 ) compensates TCL for the consequences of any changes to the fares and ticketing policy introduced since 1996.
To give another example, the validity of a pass on London Regional Transport services is until the end of the " transport day " -- that is to say, until 4: 30 am on the day after the " expiry " date stamped on the pass.
The DLR is operated under a concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Limited, part of the Serco Group.
The system is owned by Docklands Light Rail Limited, part of the London Rail division of Transport for London.
Transport links have improved significantly, with the Isle of Dogs gaining a tube connection via the Jubilee Line Extension ( opened 1999 ) and the DLR being extended to Beckton, Lewisham, London City Airport, North Woolwich and Stratford.
The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.
They became part of an integrated transport system in 1933 when the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) or London Transport was created.
Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London ( TfL ), the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, which is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.
* Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.
* Lord Ashfield, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) from 1933 to 1947.
London and Museum
Trial model of a part of the Analytical Engine, built by Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum ( London )
In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and working specimen of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a design that incorporated refinements Babbage discovered during the development of the Analytical Engine.
A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to Lyon Playfair at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of Edward Frankland.
The laboratory at St Mary's Hospital where Fleming discovered penicillin is home to the Fleming Museum, a popular London attraction.
The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.
Thomson was associated with the National Gallery ( London ), it was here that he established a set of guidelines or environmental controls for the best conditions in which objects could be stored and displayed within the Museum Environment.
Impressed by the museums in London, Paris and Vienna, he established the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.
The largest public collection of her letters and drawings is the Leslie Linder Bequest and Leslie Linder Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.
In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.
Retrospectives of his work were presented that year at The National Film Theatre in London, the Munich Stadtmuseum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also dedicated a gallery exhibition, Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration, to him.
London and Photographic
These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.
* January 14-Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon, the first in Britain, to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London.
A stereoscopic view of the 1862 International Exhibition published by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company | London Stereoscopic Company </ center >
* Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, London: Phaidon, 2002.
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