6. Let’s watch the traditional
ceremony of Changing of the
Guards at the Buckingham
Palace!
Buckingham Palace Changing of the Guards
7.
8.
9.
10. the bell of the clock
Was built in 1858
96 m tall
Celebrated its 150th birthday in May 2009
11.
12. in
numbers…
5 minutes
How long it takes to raise each half (bascule) of
the bridge's central stretch to allow large ships
to pass.
8 years
How long it took to build (1886-1894).
432
Number of construction workers it took to build
the bridge
13. London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel
on the south bank of the river
Thames.
14.
15. Interesting facts about
the London Underground
An average of 2.7 million Tube journeys are made
on the London Underground every day.
Only three babies have ever been born in the Tube.
The first was in 1924, the second in 2008 and the
third in 2009.
The busiest station is Oxford Circus, which is used
by more than 98 million passengers per year.
The Underground employs approximately 19,000
people.
The London Underground is the third busiest metro
system in Europe, after Moscow and Paris.
There are 64 lifts in the system. The deepest station,
Hampstead (58.5 metres below ground), also has the
deepest lift shaft, descending 55.2 metres.
