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White City is a district of London, England, in the northern part of Shepherd's Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of Charing Cross. White City is home to Television Centre , White City Place , Westfield London and Loftus Road , the home stadium of Queens Park Rangers F.C.
White City, London. White City Stadium; White City Greyhounds; White City tube station; Westfield London, a shopping development formerly known as "White City"; White City Place, a set of buildings including the BBC Media Village and BBC Television Centre
The 1908 Franco-British Exhibition site seen from the air. The White City Stadium is to the right of the view. Designed by the engineer J. J. Webster and completed in 10 months by George Wimpey, [2] on part of the site of the Franco-British Exhibition, this stadium with a seating capacity of 68,000 was opened by King Edward VII on 27 April 1908 after the first stanchion had been placed in ...
Westfield London from Wood Lane, 2013. The development is on a large brownfield site, part of which was once the location of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition.The initial site clearance demolished the set of halls still remaining from the exhibition (their cheap-to-build, white-painted blank facades are said to be the origin of the name White City).
White City Place is the name given to the collection of buildings formerly known as BBC Media Village (more commonly simply as White City or W12 within the BBC). White City Place is a collection of six buildings occupying a 17-acre site off Wood Lane , White City in West London , bordered by South Africa Road, Dorando Close and the A40 Westway.
Franco–British Exhibition 1908 souvenir stamp. The fair was the first international exhibition co-organised and sponsored by two countries. It covered an area of some 140 acres (57 hectares), including an artificial lake, surrounded by an immense network of white buildings in elaborate (often Oriental) styles.
Television Centre (TVC), formerly known as BBC Television Centre, is a building complex in White City, West London, which was the headquarters of BBC Television from 1960 to 2013, when BBC Television moved to Broadcasting House.
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