Houses of Parliament

The Houses of Parliament is a palace in London. This House has two big towers, the Victoria Tower and the Elizabeth Tower with Big Ben.  On October 16^th 1834 a fire destroyed the biggest part of the palace. Around the palace there is the Victoria garden. The palace is five stories high, has 1100 rooms and 100 stairs and floors, they are 4.8 km long. On the ground floor there are offices, dining rooms and pubs. On the first floor there are the two saloons of Parliament rooms, lobbies and libraries. On the second floor there is the conference room of the parliament boards. In a straight line from south to north there is the Robing Room, the Royal Gallery, the Prince´s Chamber, the Lord´s Chamber, the Central Lobby, the Members´ Lobby and the Commons Chamber. The Westminster Hall is next to the Commons Chamber. On the third floor and in the fourth floor there are more conference rooms. A group of security controls are in the palace. Only people of the United Kingdom can visit the palace and people from other countries are not allowed.

Harrods

Harrods is the famous department store in London. It is ones of the biggest, celebrated and exclusive department stores of the world. Harrods is in the Brompton Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This building was established by Charles Henry Harrod in the year 1834 and misplaced  to Knightsbridge in 1849. In December 1883 the building had been destructed because of a fire. Since 1974 Harrods has been the object of three attacks by the IRA. On the last attack  at  December 17^th 1983 six people died. The celebrates floor is the first floor. The food shop and the area for the youth mode.

Besides clothes and jewellery you can find up to 32 restaurants there.

Buckingham Palace

The Buckingham Palace is the home of the queen. It is at the Green Park and at the Buckingham Palace Gardens. It is in the City of Westminster. By the way, Hyde Park is near the Buckingham Palcae. Tourists can visit this big building in the summer.

This building has 775 rooms with very cool rooms, for example a room for a piano. They’re rooms for the royal family. Some of the rooms were decorated by the Belgium king.

But a big building needs many guards. The guards of the queen have big, black helmets, red uniforms and black trousers. They’re not allowed to do anything. You can tickle them with a feather and they are not allowed to laugh!

The most famous person, who lives in Buckingham Palace is the queen! She is a very old woman and she is the most exciting person in England. She can give anyone the title of the knight, when this person does very good things for the country.

Big Ben

The following text has information about Big Ben. As first we want tell you that Big Ben is in England. Often people name the tower with Big Ben although the clock is Big Ben. Now the tower of Big Ben is renamed into Elizabeth Tower which is 315 feet (96.0 m) high. Big Ben weighs 17t.
 The tower was completed in 1858. The pendulum is installed within an enclosed windproof box sunk beneath the clock room. The clock is very interesting. It is 13 feet (4.0 m) long, weighs 660 pounds (300 kg) and beats in a 2 second rhythm every full hour. The clockwork mechanism is in a room below and weighs 5 tons.
On May 10^th 1941, a German bombing raid damaged two of the clock's dials and sections of the tower's stepped roof and destroyed the House of Commons’ chamber.

London Sights

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we have been working for a while on these London sights and finally we have finished them. Here are some interesting sights about London. Have a look at them and enjoy reading them.
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