Articles tagged ‘City of Westminster’

Sat Lav in Westminster

By Chris | November 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

The City of Westminster has many of London’s leading tourist attractions, entertainment areas and shopping districts. What it doesn’t have are extensive and easily findable public toilets. Now the council are doing something to help visitors out who find themselves taken short while out and about.
Sat Lav is a new texting service they’ve started which [...]

 

London Boroughs - Westminster

By Chris | September 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Westminster or the City of Westminster is one of the 32 London boroughs and a place where the average tourist and visitor will tend to spend a lot of their stay. Its estimated that 95% of London’s 30 million annual visitors will visit the borough at some point. Looking at the map its not hard [...]

 

Westminster Green Plaques

By Chris | January 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Visitors to London who spend time in the centre of the city will be in the Borough known as the City of Westminster. Walking around the streets of Westminster you may notice green plaques on some of the walls of buildings, these are similar to English Heritage’s Blue Plaques and are part of a scheme [...]

 

Fleet Street part 1

By Chris | November 14th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Fleet Street is one of the most well known London street names. People all over the UK who’ve never been to the capital will have heard of Fleet Street and known what it meant.
For over 200 years it was the centre of the newspaper industry in Britain and the name was and still is [...]