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Underside of bridge from Southbank Millennium Bridge and River Thames, looking north Showing the cable suspension system. The view east from the Millennium Bridge. The bridge is featured in the opening scenes of the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, where the bridge collapses following an attack by Death Eaters. [29]
The Docklands in 1882 - a time of great expansion for the Port of London. Much of the Port's operations have now moved further downstream. This is a list of about 680 former or extant wharves, docks, piers, terminals, etc. of the Port of London, the majority of which lie on the Tideway of the River Thames, listed from upstream to downstream.
A key sequence of the 1951 comedy The Lavender Hill Mob used Queenhithe as a location for filming: Mr. Holland, played by Alec Guinness, can be seen falling from a wharf into the Thames and being rescued by two actors dressed as police officers. Construction of the Millennium Bridge began in 1998 before its
Several bridges are known as the Millennium Bridge: in the United Kingdom Gateshead Millennium Bridge; Lune Millennium Bridge, Lancaster; Millennium Bridge, Glasgow; Millennium Bridge, London; Millennium Bridge (Salford Quays) Teesquay Millennium Footbridge, Stockton-on-Tees; Millennium Bridge, York; in the Republic of Ireland
Millennium Bridge; Millennium Dome; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Ministry of Defence; Monument to the Great Fire of London; Monument to the Women of World War II; Moorfields Eye Hospital; Morden College; Mount Pleasant sorting office; Museum of Garden History; Museum of London; Mycenae House
Millbank Millennium Pier was opened on 22 May 2003 by London Mayor Ken Livingstone.Its creation was funded by the Millennium Commission as part of the Thames 2000 project, and it was the fifth and last of the new central London piers built with funding from the Millennium Commission (the others being Blackfriars Millennium Pier, Waterloo Millennium Pier, Westminster Millennium Pier and Tower ...
St Katharine Docks took their name from the former hospital of St Katharine's by the Tower, built in the 12th century, which stood on the site.An intensely built-up area, the entire 23-acre (9.5 hectares) Precinct of St Katharine by the Tower and part of East Smithfield, was earmarked for redevelopment by an act of Parliament, the St. Katharine's Dock Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4.
Millennium Bridge – as it was built to commemorate the 2000 millennium; Milton Court and Milton Street – after an early 19th-century lease owner of this name, or possibly the poet John Milton; prior to this it was Grub/Grubbe Street, after the former owner, or perhaps to a grube ('drain') [373] [374] [375]
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