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Taking off in Walthamstow
Walthamstow flyer
A hundred years ago the first all-British aircraft was assembled on Walthamstow Marshes.
London 2012
Flying high in aviation history

Frederick James Hall, the first resident at the children's home A childhood worth living
For 140 years Action for Children has been transforming the lives of London's most vulnerable children.

Behind the clock face In pictures: Big Ben & the clock
Celebrate 150 years of Big Ben with amazing photos inside the tower and behind the clock face.


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The London king
Facing a nuclear explosion
The making of St Pancras Station
The bells ring out for London
Smells like Thames sewage
The rise and fall of Seven Dials
The extraordinary life of Walter
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In Pictures: Tower Bridge restoration
The most glorious traffic-island
Crayford flies high in aviation history
In Pictures: The Cutty Sark
Would you Adam & Eve it?
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