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Thames Lions

Thames Lions

These lion heads line both sides of the Embankment, staring out over the River Thames. Their mouths hold mooring rings and it is said that if the lions drink, London will flood. They were sculpted by Timothy Butler for Bazalgette’s great sewage works in 1868-70.

10 Hyde Park Place

10 Hyde Park Place
This building is 3 feet 6 inches wide. One theory for its existence is that it blocked a public right of way to serve as a watch house overlooking the old St George's graveyard - extremely popular with bodysnatchers in the 18th Century!

With the ground floor consisting of nothing more than an alleyway behind the front door and the first floor just a tiny bathroom.

It was built in 1805, and was damaged by a bomb in 1941.

Lewis Grant Wallace was the first and only tenant.

Britain's smallest police station

Britain's smallest police station.
This station was built back in the 19th Century. It was built because back then alot of distruptive trade union types would chose Trafalgar square as a good place to protest. The police therefore decided that they needed to keep an officer to keep an eye on the troublemakers

The light reputedly comes off Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory.

Abandoned Tube Station 4

Mark Lane tube station

Mark Lane tube station is a disused station on the Circle and District Lines of the London Underground, west of the modern Tower Hill station.

It was originally opened in October 1884 to replace the short lived Tower of London station, which was closed when the Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan District Railway were connected to form the Circle Line and a new larger station had to be built.

In 1946 the station was renamed from Mark Lane to Tower Hill.

The station became disused due to overwhelming passenger numbers and there was little space available for expansion. It was closed on 4 February 1967, and the present Tower Hill station was opened as its replacement.

The sub-surface section of the station can still be seen between Monument and Tower Hill, though only one platform on the eastbound track now remains due to redevelopment of the track. The surface station, sited in Seething Lane, can be seen in the form of a subway under the road, where large grilles now cover the original stairways down to the platforms.

The offices above the station were called 'Mark Lane Station Buildings', and this can still be read above an entrance.

Abandoned Tube Station 3

Strand Station
There have been two stations on the London Underground network called Strand station, both sites are located close to Strand.

• The first was on the Picadilly Line and opened as "Strand" in 1907. It was renamed Aldwych station in 1915. Aldwych tube station was closed in 1994 but the surface building can still be prominently seen.
• The second station was on the Northern Line. It opened as Charing Cross station in 1907 before being renamed as "Strand" in 1915. The station was closed between 1973 and 1979 when it reopened as a combined station with the former Trafalgar Station station on the Bakerloss and the new terminus platforms for the Jubilee Line (the latter of which has since been rerouted away from the station) on 1 May 1979. From the reopening the combined station was called "Charing Cross".