Category: Towers in London

It was the most popular tourist attraction in 2000, second was the London Eye ; third was Alton Towers, which had been first in 1999.

* Pan Peninsula Towers, London, England, UK

* The Rich Kids had a hit song with, and an album named, " Ghosts of Princes in Towers " which made reference to the Princes and drew on rumours of their haunting the Tower of London.

The city has also produced many other musicians, including singer and songwriter John Waite, who first became known as lead singer of The Babys in the 1970s ; Paul James, better known as The Rev, former guitarist of English punk band Towers Of London who is now in the band Day 21 and plays guitar live on tour for The Prodigy, Chris Acland, drummer of the early 1990s shoegaze band Lush ; Tom English, drummer of North East indie band Maxïmo Park and Steve Kemp, drummer of the indie band Hard-Fi.

In addition to Fawlty Towers, she has had roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, notably After Henry, Smelling of Roses and Ladies of Letters ; on television she starred in the London Weekend Television / Channel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson.

Baker provides narrative at two British tourist attractions: the Nemesis roller coaster at Alton Towers, Staffordshire ; and the London Dungeon, a museum depicting gory and macabre events in the capital, narrating the events leading up to and comprising the Great Fire of London.

In 2008, Fahey appeared in the Chris Ward-written and directed short film What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor ( based on the life of artist / model Nina Hamnett, self-styled " Queen of Bohemia "), with Fahey playing the role of Hamnett opposite actor Clive Arrindel, Donny Tourette ( frontman with punk band Towers of London ) and Honey Bane ( former vocalist of the punk band Fatal Microbes ).

Filming locations for the film include Blenheim Palace, Savoy Hotel London, Lloyd's of London, Borough Market, London, Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur ( with other filming completed at Pinewood Studios ), and the Bukit Jalil LRT station However, the signage at this station that was used for the movie was Pudu LRT station instead of Bukit Jalil.

Those hotels are Sheraton Addis ( Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ), Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit ( Bangkok, Thailand ), Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan ( Sofia, Bulgaria ), Sheraton Algarve Hotel ( Albufeira, Portugal ), Sheraton Park Tower ( London, United Kingdom ) and Sheraton Kuwait Hotel & Towers ( Kuwait City, Kuwait ).

* Andy Partridge's song " Towers of London " on XTC's album Black Sea is inspired by a Dickensonian perspective of the thankless contribution of navvies to Victorian era London.

She donated her house, The Towers, 53 The Bishops Avenue, London, N2 0BJ ( which she had not much cared for and which she had shared with her husband Archie Pitt and his mistress ) to a maternity hospital after the marriage broke down.

* Connor, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature ( London, 1727 ), and John Towers ( Dublin, 1750 ); French translation by Jean Barbeyrac ( Amsterdam, 1744 )

On the domestic scene, the Sharks could not repeat the highs of their previous season, finishing as Runners-up in the League Championship ( 30-6 ) to London Towers, and losing the final of the National Cup 58-70 also to the dominating Towers.

For three seasons the cream of the north and the south followed an American-style system with London Towers invincible in the South.

Southwark Towers, London

Southwark Towers was a high rise building at 32 London Bridge Street, designed by tp bennett architects, overlooking London Bridge station, in Southwark, London.

Griffith Rhys Jones-or Caradog as he was commonly known-was the Conductor of the famous ' Côr Mawr ' of some 460 voices ( the South Wales Choral Union ), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s.

Charlton share local London derbies with Millwall, Crystal Palace ; and with east London club West Ham United.

In September 1985, Charlton made the controversial move to ground-share with South London neighbours Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

During the 1990s, the English football club Wimbledon, based in London, expressed interest in relocating to the city after being forced to leave their Plough Lane stadium and ground-share with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

Early finals venues include Kennington Oval, in 1872 and 1874 – 92, the Racecourse Ground, Derby in 1886, Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester in 1893, Goodison Park in 1894, Burnden Park for the 1901 replay, Bramall Lane in 1912, the Crystal Palace Park, 1895 – 1914, Stamford Bridge 1920 – 22, and Lillie Bridge, Fulham, London in 1873.

A major 19th-century engineering achievement was The Crystal Palace, the huge cast-iron and plate glass exhibition hall built for The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

* 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

The phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888 at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest known surviving musical recordings, until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a waveform of " Au Clair de la Lune ", recorded on a phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

However, Dr Brookes did organise a national Olympic Games in London, at Crystal Palace, in 1866 and this was the first Olympics to resemble an Olympic Games to be held outside of Greece.

Dr Brookes had organised a national Olympic Games that was held at Crystal Palace in London in 1866.

The first Scout rally, held in 1909 at The Crystal Palace in London, attracted 10, 000 boys and a number of girls.

Grace had received an invitation from the Crystal Palace Company in London to help them form the London County Cricket Club.

Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.

After leaving Gloucestershire in 1900, the Graces lived in Mottingham, a south-east London suburb, not far from the Crystal Palace where he played for London County, or from Eltham where he played club cricket in his sixties.

* August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality.

* November 30 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire ( it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition ).

* May 1 – The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria ( it runs until October 18 ).

Farnsworth himself came to London to Baird's Crystal Palace laboratories in 1936, but was unable to fully solve the problem ; the fire that burned Crystal Palace to the ground later that year further hampered the Baird company's ability to compete.

In 1859, he demonstrated this instrument in Crystal Palace, London.

Bruckner was a renowned organist in his day, impressing audiences in France in 1869, and England in 1871, giving six recitals on a new Henry Willis organ at Royal Albert Hall in London and five more at the Crystal Palace.

Revised and expanded, it was performed at the Crystal Palace in 1862, a year after his return to London, and was an immediate sensation.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

The archbishop's main residence is Lambeth Palace in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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

The Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence in London is Lambeth Palace.

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch.

The Buckingham Palace Garden is the largest private garden in London.

Suspended during World War II, the BBC service was re-established in June 1946, and had only one transmitter, at Alexandra Palace, which served the London area.

* 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London.

* 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

On this date, the Scots Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster in London, the home of the English Parliament.

* 1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.

Mary, born at St. James's Palace in London on 30 April 1662, was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York ( the future James II & VII ), and his first wife, Lady Anne Hyde.

Mary was born on 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London.

Elizabeth, though protesting her innocence in the Wyatt affair, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two months, then was put under house arrest at Woodstock Palace.

* 1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

* 1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

* 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.