Research project

London trip 2013Research Project

Pau Benito, Natàlia Castejón and Guillem Sabatés

OBJECTIVESLearning about the

English culture and the most important places

to visit

Providing information about:• The Houses of

Parliament• Big Ben• Westminster Abbey• Buckingham Palace• Downing Street• Camden Town

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

House of Commons House of Lords

Two institutions

Be careful! Smoking, drinking, eating and entering animals is not allowed!

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (History)

Origin of the name:

Westminster Abbey

Old Palace:• Built in the 11th

century• Historical building• Destroyed by fire in

1834

New Palace:• Reconstruction

by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin

• Conservation work

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER

(Location)Located in the City of Westminster, in central London.

Grade I listed building since 1970 and part of the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (Distribution)Queen’s Robing Room

Prince’s chamber

Lords’ chamber

Commons’ chamber

Peers’ lobby

Central lobby

Members’ lobby

Norman Porch

Royal Gallery

Westminster Hall

BIG BEN (Symbology)One of the symbols of

both London and England

A name with a history

The importance of its

bells

BIG BEN (The Queen)The Queen and

the towerWhy was the tower built?

“DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM”

(“O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First”)

BIG BEN (History)

The Clock Tower becomes the

Elizabeth Tower

Charles Barry and Augustus W. N. Pugin,

two architects with their own

style

Big Ben, a tourist

attraction

WESTMINSTER ABBEY

(Meaning)

Real name: the

Collegiate Church of St

Peter at Westminster

Located in the City of

Westminster, in Central London

Westminster School

and Westminste

r Abbey Choir

School

WESTMINSTER ABBEY (History)9

60s or 970s

• Community of Benedictine monks thanks to Saint Dunstan and King Edgar1

042-1052

• Reconstruction of St Peter’s Abbey• Royal burial church for King Edward the Confessor

1245

• Reparation of the church• Royal burial church for Henry III1

539-1540

• Henry VIII made the abbey become cathedral and the Diocese of Westminster was founded1

722-1745

• Enlargement thanks to Nicholas Hawksmoor

WESTMINSTER ABBEY (Royalty)

Function: royal coronations and

burials of the Commonwealth

realms

An abbey with its own foundational

legend

Wedding of Prince William and Miss Catherine

Middleton

BUCKINGHAM PALACE (What is it?)

The official London residence

and principal workplace of the British monarch

Located in the City of

Westminster, in central London

BUCKINGHAM PALACE (History)

1705

• Buckingham House• Residence of the Duke of Buckingham

1761

• The Queen’s House• Private residence of Queen Charlotte

1837

• Buckingham Palace• Since Queen Victoria came to power

BUCKINGHAM PALACE (Construction)

19t

h century

• Enlargement by architects John Nash and Edward Blore

Late

19t

h and

early 20t

h centuries

• Incorporation of the principal balcony

World War II

• Construction of the Queen’s Gallery

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

(Curiosities)The Buckingham

Palace garden is the largest

private garden in London

There’s a Palace’s Summer Opening

between August and September

Historically, there were presentations of debutantes in the Throne Room, which

were replaced by Garden Parties in

1958

There are banquets and investitures in the palace’s

Ballroom

DOWNING STREET (Importance)

Built in the 1680s by Sir George Downing, its importance lays on its meaningful buildings

An iconic street and a well-known

site visited by lots of tourists

DOWNING STREET (Location)

It is located in Central London, in the Whitehall

road

DOWNING STREET (History)

By 1857…

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

DOWNING STREET (Security)

Nowadays…

CAMDEN TOWN (Location)

London City Borought of Camden

CAMDEN TOWN (History)

Laid out in 1791, it was part of the

parish of St Pancras, Middlesex

CAMDEN TOWN (Importance)

Importance of Camden Town: Railways and location

Railway engine house in Camden Town,

London, 1847

Camden Town’s railway, 1851

CAMDEN TOWN (Basis)

Commercial activities: radical

change

Economic basis

Alternative markets and

tourism

CAMDEN TOWN (Activities)

What can I do

in Camden Town?

CAMDEN TOWN (Famous people)

Charles Dickens

Amy Winehouse

Walter Sickert

Alan Bennett Oliver Heaviside

Dylan Thomas

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

BIBLIOGRAPHY (1)O Cover:http://tinyurl.com/cg5g47r

O Houses of Parliament:http://tinyurl.com/c5n6oophttp://tinyurl.com/dyxzptyhttp://tinyurl.com/c7c83xdhttp://tinyurl.com/c23cuq2

O Buckingham palace:http://tinyurl.com/bnwxd8whttp://tinyurl.com/c6es3xo

O Big Ben:http://tinyurl.com/cxp46kkhttp://tinyurl.com/brm89cuhttp://tinyurl.com/cdsyobuhttp://tinyurl.com/d9f4o5hhttp://tinyurl.com/ckrsk39

BIBLIOGRAPHY (2)O Westminster Abbey:http://tinyurl.com/bhvpmzhttp://tinyurl.com/ck6mqt4

O Downing Street:http://tinyurl.com/3xqp2hthttp://tinyurl.com/cyvkhgmhttp://tinyurl.com/cywd2xrhttp://tinyurl.com/c85ub4hhttp://tinyurl.com/bthczo8Google Earth

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