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John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child

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2019-08-05

5 August 1100: Three days after the death of his brother, King William Rufus, Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, promising a return to the laws of Edward the Confessor.
Henry’s older brother Robert ‘Curthose’ remains Duke of Normandy.

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2019-08-05

11yr old William missed out on the Amelia & George St parties. A at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 in Westminster Abbey, he grew up to be the allotment-holder Lord Wallace of

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2019-07-27

Westminster Abbey, where Anne and Richard’s coronation was held. I wonder how different it looked in 1483. Certainly didn’t have the two west towers, they were added in the 18th century... or the Lady chapel as it stands today of course

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2019-07-07

Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn (1870-1951)
Westminster bridge from Victoria Embankment

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2019-07-04

If you are in do pop in to the and check out – stocks all 8 books in the You will be most welcome.

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2019-06-25

Westminster Records cover designs by Rudolph de Harak

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2019-06-25

Celebrations in for the coronation of George V & Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey 1911. The spectacular 1873 Town Hall was designed by Lockwood & Mawson, the architects & built by John Ives & Son of

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2019-06-22

to lovely Westminster where I was a couple of weeks back. Feels like a fairytale castle ✨🏰

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2019-06-22

This view looking north west across the Thames at low tide captures Labelye’s Westminster Bridge before c. 1770. To the right a line of buildings runs back to Derby Court – once the London residence of the Earl of Derby. Image © Trustees of

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2019-06-13

Elizabeth Taylor, one week from her twentieth birthday, and her second husband, actor Michael Wilding, leaving Caxton Hall in Westminster after their wedding on Feb. 21, 1952.

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2019-06-12

In 1862, when the new buildings of St Thomas' Hospital were under construction near Westminster Bridge, the hospital was temporarily moved to Surrey Gardens. Previously the site was a which rivalled London Zoo. 🐒🦒🐘 Read more here:
https://t.co/Rg5HaPwwDg

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2019-06-02

Westminster Bridge by Moonlight
Henry Pether (1800–1880)
Government Art Collection

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2019-04-25

Hungerford Bridge, Westminster by Paul Simonon 2002 Pre London Eye?

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2019-04-07

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, by Wordsworth. https://t.co/Dr9ydhQ8yi

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2019-04-07

Bridies are peacemakers. Stap doon an onion bridie each wi Westminster broon sauce aw oer it an yil both be mint. https://t.co/lyAf2kpPld

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2019-04-04

Live from Westminster - where it's Day every day...

['Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair' (1969) dir. Aleksandr Rou]

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2019-04-01

Medieval baby carrier

Westminster Psalter (St. Christopher)

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2019-03-30