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4 unusual facts about City of Westminster


Archbishop of Westminster

The see is in the City of Westminster, the Archbishop's cathedra or seat is located at the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of the "Most Precious Holy Blood, Saint Mary, Saint Joseph and Saint Peter", usually referred to as Westminster Cathedral, which is set back from Victoria Street.

Early fires of London

This blaze was so severe that it destroyed most of the city between St Paul's and St Clement Danes in Westminster.

Richard Tompkins

Tompkins died of cancer in 1992 in Westminster, a year after the stamps were withdrawn, and the same year he was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

RingGo

Phone parking has received some bad press notably in respect to the City of Westminster implementation which is not RingGo.


Centre for Social Justice Awards

The 2006 award ceremony will be held on the 28 June 2006 at Central Hall in Westminster, London.

CityWest Homes

CityWest Homes (CWH) is a housing association in the City of Westminster, London, established by the city council in April 2002 as an arm's length management organisation.

Eleonora Aguiari

In order to do this she needed clearance letters from the RCA Rector, a professor, the Victoria and Albert museum conservation department and the RCA conservation department, bronze tests, a scaffolding license, indemnity insurance, and permission from English Heritage (who own the statue), the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington (their boundary bisects the length of the horse) and the present Lord Napier.

Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield

On 15 November 1712, the two men fought a famous duel in Hyde Park, Westminster, described in Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond and in Bernard Burke's Anecdotes of the Aristocracy.

James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton

On 15 November 1712, Hamilton fought a celebrated duel with Charles, Lord Mohun, in Hyde Park, Westminster, in an episode narrated in Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond.

Julie Kirkbride

MacKay and Kirkbride owned two homes: one in her constituency of Bromsgrove; and a house close to Parliament in Westminster.

Katherine Swynford

In about 1366, at St Clement Danes Church, Westminster, Katherine married "Hugh" Ottes Swynford, a knight from the manor of Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire, the son of Thomas Swynford by his marriage to Nicole Druel.

Knightsbridge School

The school name itself comes from a road which runs from Hyde Park, spans the City of Westminster and passes through Kensington and Chelsea.

Launceston Elliot

Three years later he was the winner of the championships at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster.

London Tigers F.C.

The head office is based in the City of Westminster, but the organisation works across the London Boroughs of Camden, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham.

Lord Mayor's Show

On the day after being sworn in, the Lord Mayor and several others participate in a procession from the Guildhall, via Mansion House and St Paul's Cathedral, in the heart of the City of London, to the Royal Courts of Justice on the edge of the City of Westminster, where the new Lord Mayor swears allegiance to the Crown.

Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock

She married John Pratt, Earl of Brecknock, eldest son of John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden and Lady Joan Marion Nevill, on 19 October 1920 in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London.

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

Amongst these may be instanced the Baroness Burdett Coutts’s beautiful fountains in Victoria-park and Regent’s-park the Maharajah of Vizianagram’s in Hyde-park; Mrs. Brown’s, by Thornycroft, in Hamilton-place, Mr. Wheeler’s at the north of Kew-bridge; and Mr. Buxton’s at Westminster.

The Holme

The Holme (Saxon: "river island") is a mansion located on Inner Circle by Regent's Park in the City of Westminster, London, England.

Zounds

The cover art, by anarchist artist Clifford Harper, featured a painting of fire fighters apparently trying to put out a blaze at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.


see also

Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone

Until 2011 it was used as a training venue for the City of Westminster College's performing arts, theatre lighting, sound engineering and media students, along with regularly visiting students from Ball State University and young people from The Prince's Trust.

Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow

He was created a life peer as Baron Sterling of Plaistow, of Pall Mall in the City of Westminster in 1990 in Margaret Thatcher’s resignation honours list.

Lyceum Theatre

Lyceum Theatre, London, a 2,000-seat West End theatre in the City of Westminster

Merle Park

In 1977, she was one of the dancers who performed along with Freddie Mercury at a charity gala which included a performance of Bohemian Rhapsody on behalf of the City of Westminster Society for Mentally Handicapped Children.

Palladium Theatre

London Palladium, a 2,286 seat West End theatre located off Oxford Street in the City of Westminster

Swan Bells

However, since the rhyme refers to bells in the City of London and St Martins-in-the-Fields is in the City of Westminster, the line more likely refers to St Martin Orgar, near Cannon Street, which no longer exists.

The Little Saigon News

city of Westminster in California officially also called this part of the city, “Little Saigon” in 1987.