London is the capital of Great Britain

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LONDON … Nearly 2,000 years ago: The Romans invaded Britain. They built a town beside the River Thames, and named it Londinium.

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LONDON … By the year 200: Londinium was the biggest town in Britain. It had a bustling market square, a fort for Roman soliders, and an arena where savage gladiator battles were fough.

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LONDON … London, the capital of Great Britain, is a very old town. It is two thousand years old. Many years ago London was a small town on the Thames. There were a lot of villages round it and after many years London and three hundred villages grew in to a very large city. Some of the names of those villages you can find in the names of the streets in modern London — Kensington, Westminster and others. There were many wars in those days and people from other countries came to Great Britain and destroyed London, but new houses of stone grew up. London stands not far from the sea. Many ships from other countries came to the port of London and brought cotton, food and other things. Factories grew in London and other cities. Many shops were opened in the centre of London. In 1863 the first underground railway began to work. It was very short in those days. Now London is a beautiful city with large squares and parks. London is one of the biggest cities in the world.

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The Tower of London … The Tower of London is a very old building in London. It is nine hundred years old. The Tower of London stands on the Thames. In the early days of the history of England the English kings lived in the Tower. Then it was a prison where many people died, black ravens had much food near the walls of the Tower in those years. The black ravens live in the gardens of the Tower now. The English people like them very much. A man looks after the ravens and gives them meat in the morning and in the evening. Now the Tower of London is a museum and many people from other countries come to see it. They see the dark stone halls with small windows and thick doors. The walls of the Tower are five metres thick. In the museum they can see many old guns. At ten o’clock every evening the guards lock the big doors of the Tower for the night.

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TELEPHONE LONDON… Despite its fame, the famous English phone booth, born in 1920, was not red, but yellowish - white, and was called the model-K1 – kiosk number 1. And now, after so many years of selfless service to the British people, one of the most famous symbols of the British way of life red telephone booth threatened with extinct .

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LONDON … London – one of the most beautiful cities in the world, a city of contrasts and style. Personal style London give the symbols, without which it is difficult to imagine the life of the city. I mean red phone booths and the famous red buses, which bring bright color in the grey architecture and the cloudy weather of London. On one of the tours in London, I learned interesting facts from the history of the red buses and will gladly share this information with You.

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LONDON … In distant 1820-ies in London appeared first predecessors of buses called omnibuses. It was a -- a on the horse-drawn vans. In 1855 was formed the London General Omnibus Company (London bus company), which began to operate passenger land transport in the city. Over time, the management of the company decided that, for the congested streets of London, preferably double-Decker buses. In 1911 specifically for the London bus company was designed and built bus with wooden body: the bottom – closed cabin, and at the top salon with an open roof where you can climb the steep spiral staircase. It was the first bus in the world!!!

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