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Victoria Square in 2009 Young Queen Victoria by Catherine Anne Laugel, Victoria Square. Victoria Square is a small, [a] rectangular garden square in Westminster, Greater London, beginning some 50 metres south of the remaining stables of the Royal Mews (on the large green block taken up by Buckingham Palace) and 150 metres north of Victoria bus station, which stands in front of Victoria Station.
The central square of Covent Garden is laid out, and a market begins to develop there. Sion College is chartered as a college, guild of London parochial clergy, almshouse and library under the will of Thomas White, vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West. 1631 31 January: The rebuilt St Katharine Cree church is consecrated by William Laud, Bishop of ...
4 April: Gunmen escape with £7,000,000 from a Security Express van, making it the biggest cash haul in British history. 16 May: Wheel clamps are first used to combat illegal parking in London. [9] July–August: London temperatures reach and exceed 30 °C (86 °F).
St. James's Square, c. 1722 Fitzroy Square. Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more hardscape, constituting town squares (also known as city squares)—to those with communal gardens, for which London is a major international exponent, known as garden squares.
In the strictest sense, the Victorian era covers the duration of Victoria's reign as Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from her accession on 20 June 1837—after the death of her uncle, William IV—until her death on 22 January 1901, after which she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII. Her reign lasted 63 years ...
Bryanston Square and Montagu Square are laid out on the Portman Estate,. 1811 7–19 December: The Ratcliff Highway murders take place; the principal suspect commits suicide and is buried at a crossroads with a stake through his heart. [24] The building of Regent Street begins John Nash's development of the West End. [1]
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did ...