The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

At the end of this year and early in 895 ( or 896 ), the Danes drew their ships up the River Thames and River Lea and fortified themselves twenty miles ( 32 km ) north of London.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence is Lambeth Palace, photographed looking east across the River Thames.

Barges towed by a tugboat on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom

The area of King's Cross, London was previously a village known as Battle Bridge which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

* Cross River Tram, in London, England, UK

Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New London, then northward up the Connecticut River to Hartford.

The notes, denominated in pounds sterling, were printed in London and issued at the York Factory, Fort Garry and the Red River Colony.

St Albans is in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles ( 35 km ) north of London, beside the site of a Catuvellauni settlement and the Roman town of Verulamium and on the River Ver.

Fresh water is supplied to London from Ware, using the New River built by Hugh Myddleton and opened in 1613.

* Simcoe named London, Ontario and the River Thames in Upper Canada.

The earliest patent was taken out by Henry Palmer in the UK in 1821, and the design was employed at Deptford Dockyard in South-East London, and a short line for moving stone from a quarry near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire to the River Lea.

The Nations Cup, a duplicate poker team event, to be staged on the London Eye on the banks of the River Thames, and “ The Table ”, the invitation only IFP World Championship, featuring roughly 130 of the world ’ s best poker players, in an event to find the 2011 official " World Champion ".

Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after its tenants, the Palace lies on the Middlesex bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in central London.

The first known " modern " rowing races began from competition among the professional watermen in the United Kingdom that provided ferry and taxi service on the River Thames in London.

The oldest, and arguably most famous, head race is the Head of the River Race, founded by Steve Fairbairn in 1926 which takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom.

* 1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.

** London River Services, responsible for licensing and coordinating passenger services on the River Thames within London.

The Tower of London, seen from the River Thames, with a view of the water-gate called " Traitors ' Gate "

Waterbuses operate on rivers in some of the country's largest cities such as London ( London River Services and Thames Clippers ), Cardiff ( Cardiff Waterbus ) and Bristol ( Bristol Ferry Boat ).

( 1986 ) Empress Taytu and Menelik II: Ethiopia 1883-1910, London: Ravens Educational & Development Services, ISBN 0-947895-01-9

The ( green painted ) country buses and Green Line Coaches had been passed in 1969 to a new company, London Country Bus Services, which in 1970 became part of the National Bus Company.

* Roger L. Kemp, PhD, " Privatization: The Provision of Public Services by the Private Sector ," McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC, USA ; and London, UK., 2007.

The British Post Office adopted the Baudot system for use on a simplex circuit between London and Paris in 1897, and subsequently made considerable use of duplex Baudot systems on their Inland Telegraph Services.

His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist William Sargant at St Thomas ' Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey, who was also involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.

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He worked for Hackney London Borough Council in London and studied computing with the support of the Manpower Services Commission.

Services regularly connect to Worcester, Birmingham, London, Manchester and settlements in south Wales.

Laker put Jack Wiseman, a fully qualified aircraft maintenance engineer with whom he had worked for a brief period at London Aero Motor Services ( LASM ), in charge of his new engineering business.

The Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission was established in London shortly thereafter, and the name abbreviated to Nortraship, following a suggestion from the British Postal Services.

Some have asserted that Sarbanes – Oxley legislation has helped displace business from New York to London, where the Financial Services Authority regulates the financial sector with a lighter touch.

Services are formed of two four-car units coupled together to make eight-car trains, although the former Chesham shuttle service was served by a four-car train, as was the East London line when it was an Underground route.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

Services from Cheam to central London include direct trains to Victoria which take about half-an-hour.

Services operate to Richmond, Hampton Court and to Westminster Pier in central London.

Beside the bridge is Kew Gardens Pier, which serves tourist ferries operating under licence from London River Services.

Services to Waterloo are every 5 to 10 minutes making it a popular location for professionals commuting into central London.

Services operate from Wallington to London Bridge and Victoria via West Croydon and to Epsom and beyond via Sutton.

Horse buses operated in many cities during the later part of the 1800s and early 1900s with one company in London operating 220 horse-buses by 1880.

The service is operated by London Tramlink, an arm of Transport for London ( TfL ).

Some IPTV services are currently available in London, while services operated in Hull ceased in April 2006.

Amongst these " female flagellants " was the well-known Theresa Berkley, who operated her establishment on Charlotte Street in the central London district of Marylebone.

The DLR is operated under a concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Limited, part of the Serco Group.

By the mid-1990s, Ghana Airways operated international scheduled passenger and cargo service to numerous European, Middle Eastern, and African destinations, including London, Düsseldorf, Rome, Abidjan, Dakar, Lagos, Lomé, and Johannesburg.

GIA operated Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 aircraft under wet lease arrangements with other airlines, and connected Kotoka International Airport in Accra with London Gatwick and Düsseldorf.

From 1970 until 1998, Jardine Matheson operated a pan-Asian investment banking joint venture, Jardine Fleming, with Robert Fleming & Co., a London merchant bank controlled by the Fleming family.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

* 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport ( now John F Kennedy International Airport ) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.

London Overground ( LO ) is a hybrid: its services are operated via a concession awarded by Transport for London, and are branded accordingly, but until 2010 all its routes used infrastructure owned by Network Rail.

On 1 June 2008, the drinking of alcoholic beverages was banned on Tube and London Overground trains, buses, trams, Docklands Light Railway and all stations operated by TfL across London but not those operated by other rail companies.

London had a hydraulic network powered by five pumping stations operated by the London Hydraulic Power Company, with a total effect of 5 MW.

The main Network Rail station operated by London Midland is Kidderminster, from where trains run to Birmingham, Worcester and London.

* TSS Irene ( 1885 ), a steam turbine cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1885 to 1906

ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.

* Biota !, a planned aquarium operated by Zoological Society of London ( ZSL ) in east London.