* 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.

" Station X ", " London Signals Intelligence Centre " and " Government Communications Headquarters " were all cover names that were used during the war, and the latter ( GCHQ ) was adopted for the successor peacetime organisation that still bears this name.

He returned finally to London to cover the 1945 UK General Election at the beginning of July.

Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1991 ( hard cover ).

* 2000 ; First published, by Verso Books ( London ) 150 p. Hardcover, ISBN 1-85984-773-0 ( Blue star of David on cover )

On 19 March 2009, several buildings in Shoreditch, East London, were evacuated after water company workers discovered a replica of the Holy Hand Grenade under a fire hydrant cover.

From late 1962 until the spring of 1964, he played drums for The Beachcombers, a London cover band notable for renditions of songs by Cliff Richard.

* The sub-surface lines, cut-and cover railway lines forming part of London Underground

In January 1980, the production of Hypnotised was finished at Eden Studios in London, with the Undertones recording the three further songs written the previous December, plus two further songs — " Hypnotised " and a cover of " Under The Boardwalk " — which had been written that month.

In late September, to cover extra expenses for his daughter Julia's move from London to Paris to attend the Sorbonne, Wright wrote blurbs for record jackets for Nicole Barclay, director of the largest record company in Paris.

A prelude to the forthcoming summer gigs in London, Prince played a relaxed set of classic hits (" Kiss ", changing the lyric from " You don't have to watch Dynasty " to Desperate Housewives, " Girls & Boys ", and " Nothing Compares 2 U ") alongside more recent tracks, plus a well-received cover version of Gnarls Barkley's " Crazy ".

* " London ", a Smiths cover by Anthrax on the album Sound of White Noise

The Royal Family and the beleaguered and demoralized Norwegian Government was evacuated from Tromsø on 7 June aboard HMS Devonshire ; and after a dash, under cover of HMS Glorious, HMS Acasta, and HMS Ardent, safely arrived in London.

Griffin leaves the League under cover of invisibility to form an alliance with the invaders before betraying it outright, stealing plans for the defence of London as well as physically and emotionally assaulting Mina.

The downbeat mood of the songs on Beatles for Sale was reflected in the album cover, which shows the unsmiling, weary-looking Beatles in an autumn scene photographed at Hyde Park, London.

Recruited from university by British Intelligence, he supposedly set up his criminal empire as part of an undercover operation to monitor crime in London which got out of hand, to the point where the ' cover ' became more real to Moriarty than his role in British Intelligence.

His services expanded to cover much of London until his horses were requisitioned for the Army in World War I.

The Camden New Journal and Camden Gazette are free, independent weekly newspapers that cover the London Borough of Camden.

From 1960 to 1995 their " EMI House ," corporate headquarters was located at 20 Manchester Square London, England, the stairwell from which was featured on the cover of the Beatles ' Please Please Me album.

The first emergency number system to be deployed anywhere in the World was in London on 1 July 1937 using the number 999, and this was quickly extended to cover the entire country.

After their On the Threshold of a Dream album ( 1969 ), they created Threshold Records, prompted in part by disputes with London / Deram over album design costs ( their gatefold record jackets and expensive cover art were not popular with company executives ).

Geoff Crowther ( born 1944 ), first independent travel guide writer, head of BIT travel guides, London ( 1972 – 1980 ) the first guidebooks to cover the Hippie trail.

Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

There was no cover here, only grass sighing against pant-legs.

There was a clump of trees that appeared to provide cover right up to the road, and the shouting and gunfire never slackened.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

The difference is important, for although the older law of nations did cover relationships among sovereigns, this was by no means its exclusive domain.

In June, 1960, an early draft of the questionnaire, along with a cover letter, was mailed to fourteen companies in the state of Washington.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

It was not a smooth process, however, and the seaway would periodically rise to cover parts of the region throughout Horseshoe Canyon times before finally receding altogether in the years after.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

At a distance of from the Moon, the Scientific Instrument Module ( SIM ) bay cover was jettisoned.

This was despite a metal cover, and locking-bar mechanism designed to prevent this from occurring.

Pushing down on the metal cover to reseat the ULA was normally sufficient to rectify these issues.

God was said to have communicated with Moses " from between the two cherubim " on the Ark's cover.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

The program's goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving guerrillas of cover ; another goal was to induce forced draft urbanization, destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, and forcing them to flee to the U. S. dominated cities, thus depriving the guerrillas of their rural support base and food supply.