City of Westminster
Westminster sits at the heart of London and is the centre of British political life. It’s home to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, where 39 monarchs have been crowned.
Tourists flock to landmarks like Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, and Covent Garden’s shops and theatres. Then there’s the dilemma of whether to take tea at the Ritz, dim sum in Chinatown – or maybe a pint in one of Soho’s many pubs?
Composer George Frideric Handel wrote Messiah in Mayfair, next door to where rock legend Jimi Hendrix would live some 200 years later. Two miles away is Abbey Road Studios, and the zebra crossing made famous by The Beatles.
And yet with all that heritage, Westminster never sits still – a key example of London’s way of respecting its past while embracing the future.
The Palace of Westminster from Westminster Bridge
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A family with shopping bags standing outside a shop window on Oxford Street (pigment print)
Baldesare, Paul
2008
A few little articles to Commence Housekeeping (valentine card)
King, Jonathan
1860-1880
A Field Day in Hyde Park (etching and aquatint)
Rowlandson, Thomas
1780-1789
A general bill of Christenings & Burials in London from December 12 1820 to December 11 1821 (bill of mortality)
Rivington, Ann
1821
A General View of London and Westminster (engraving)
Buck Brothers, Buck, Nathaniel, Buck, Samuel, Bennett, John, Sayer, Robert
1777
A girl sitting on some steps in St. Stephens Gardens, W2 (silver gelatin print)
Mayne, Roger
1957
A girl with a toddler in a pram, Hampden Crescent, off Harrow Road (silver gelatin print)
Mayne, Roger
1955
A group of children playing in the street off Harrow Road, Paddington (silver gelatin print)
Mayne, Roger
1957
A group of men talking outside the Palace Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue (silver gelatin print)
Collins, Bob
1950-1959
A group of 'teddy boys' stand outside a burger bar, West End (negative)
Grant, Henry
1962-04
A group of women in a Chinese Community Centre (silver gelatin print)
Cardwell, Keith
1992
