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Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AU- The original Temple Bar was a thick stone archway designed by Sir Christopher Wren, which straddled Fleet Street.

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4 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AU- The original Temple Bar was a thick stone archway designed by Sir Christopher Wren, which straddled Fleet Street. In summer, Temple Bar used to get so hot that Charles Dickens described it in Bleak House, chapter 19, thus: "Temple Bar gets so hot, that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what a heater is to an urn, and keeps them simmering all night." Temple Bar was moved in 1878 to Sir Henry Bruce Meux's estate in Waltham Cross. For many years it has been forgotten, and a monument was built that replaced it, in 1880. This stands at the entrance to the City of London. Appropriately, the Griffon (a mythical beast, half eagle and half lion that is said to guard treasure and is the symbol of the City of London) keeps guard from the top of the monument.

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6 PIGEONS The square is a popular tourist spot in London, and used to be particularly famous for its pigeons (rock doves). Feeding the pigeons was a popular activity with Londoners and tourists. The National Portrait Gallery displays a 1948 photograph of Elizabeth Taylor posing there with bird seed so as to be mobbed by birds. The desirability of the birds' presence has long been contentious: their droppings look ugly on buildings and damage the stonework, and the flock, estimated at its peak to be 35,000, was considered to be a health hazard. In 1996, police arrested one man who was estimated to have trapped 1500 birds for sale to a middleman; it is assumed that the birds ended up in the human food chain. Nelson's Column Trafalgar Square

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8 24 Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 9000 Grosvenor Square in the heart of Mayfair is the home of the American Embassy. During the Second World War (before the Embassy was built) the whole area was a HQ for senior American officials. There are many references and memorials to Americans who died in war as well as famous Americans, dotted throughout the square. The main one is surely the Roosevelt memorial, in honour of Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945), the 32nd President of the USA. You can also see the Dwight D Eisenhower memorial in the square. You'll find Abraham Lincoln's Monument in Parliament Square, George Washington's bust down in the crypt at St Paul's Cathedral and John F Kennedy's bust on the Euston Road, near Great Portland Street tube station. Take some time out to relax in the small park in the middle of the square. It's very pleasant on a sunny day. A few minutes walk away from Grosvenor Square is Berkeley Square, the setting for the popular 40's song "A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square". Berkeley Mansions in the square had a very famous resident - Mr Bertie Wooster. Mayfair may not be quite what it was in Bertie's day but there are still plenty of upmarket houses and hotels. Many of Bertie's adventures are set in and around Mayfair, which is not surprising as Bertie's creator, P G Wodehouse, lived in this area for a time and knew it very well.

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10 City Road, London, EC1Y 2AA Originally called 'Bone Hill Fields' this Saxon burial ground was re-opened in 1665 for victims of the Great Plague and now contains over 120,000 bodies. Famous gravestones include John Wesley (founder of the Methodist church), John Bunyan (who wrote 'Pilgrims Progress'), William Blake and Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe). An epitaph on a large tomb in the middle of Bunhill Fields reads: 'Here lyes Dame Mary Pace relict of Sir Gregory Pace Bart. She departed this life March 4 1728 in the 56th year of her age. In 67 months she was tapped 66 times, had taken away 240 gallons of water, without ever repining her case or ever fearing the operation'

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