An academic research project that provides information about some of the places I'm going to visit with my classmates during our trip to London

1. London trip 2013
Research Project
Pau Benito, Natàlia Castejón and Guillem Sabatés

2. OBJECTIVES
Learning about the
English culture and the
most important places to
visit
Providing information about:
• The Houses of
Parliament
• Big Ben
• Westminster Abbey
• Buckingham Palace
• Downing Street
• Camden Town

3. HOUSES OF
PARLIAMENT
Two institutions
House of Commons House of Lords
Be careful! Smoking, drinking, eating and entering animals is
not allowed!

4. Origin of the
PALACE OF
name:
Westminster
Abbey
WESTMINST
ER (History)
New Palace:
Old Palace:
• Reconstruction
• Built in the 11th
by Charles Barry
century
and Augustus
• Historical building
Pugin
• Destroyed by fire in
• Conservation
1834
work

5. PALACE OF
WESTMINSTER
(Location)
Located in the City of Westminster, in central London.
Grade I listed building since 1970 and part of the
UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987

6. PALACE OF
WESTMINSTER
(Distribution)
Queen’s Robing Room
Prince’s chamber
Lords’ chamber
Commons’ chamber
Peers’ lobby
Central lobby
Members’ lobby
Norman Porch
Royal Gallery
Westminster Hall

7. BIG BEN (Symbology)
One of the symbols of
both London and
England
A name with a history
The
importanc
e of its
bells

8. BIG BEN (The Queen)
The Queen and
Why was the tower built?
the tower
“DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM
PRIMAM”
(“O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First”)

9. BIG BEN (History)
The Clock Tower Big Ben, a
becomes the tourist
Elizabeth Tower attraction
Charles Barry
and Augustus W.
N. Pugin, two
architects with
their own style

10. WESTMINSTE
R ABBEY
(Meaning)
Westminster Located in the
Real name:
School and City of
the Collegiate
Westminster Westminster,
Church of St
Abbey Choir in Central
Peter at
School London
Westminster

11. WESTMINSTER ABBEY
(History)
960s • Community of Benedictine monks thanks to Saint Dunstan
or and King Edgar
970s
• Reconstruction of St Peter’s Abbey
1042- • Royal burial church for King Edward the Confessor
1052
• Reparation of the church
1245 • Royal burial church for Henry III
• Henry VIII made the abbey become cathedral and the
1539- Diocese of Westminster was founded
1540
1722- • Enlargement thanks to Nicholas Hawksmoor
1745

12. WESTMINST
ER ABBEY
(Royalty)
Wedding of Prince William and An abbey with its
Miss Catherine Middleton own foundational
legend
Function: royal
coronations and
burials of the
Commonwealth
realms

13. BUCKINGHAM PALACE
(What is it?)
The official London
Located in the
residence and
City of
principal workplace
Westminster, in
of the British
central London
monarch

14. BUCKINGHAM PALACE
(History)
• Buckingham House
1705 • Residence of the Duke of Buckingham
• The Queen’s House
1761 • Private residence of Queen Charlotte
• Buckingham Palace
1837 • Since Queen Victoria came to power

15. BUCKINGHAM PALACE
(Construction)
• Enlargement by architects John Nash and
19th Edward Blore
century
Late 19th
and
• Incorporation of the principal balcony
early
20th
centurie
s
• Construction of the Queen’s Gallery
World
War II

16. BUCKINGHAM PALACE
(Curiosities)
The Buckingham There’s a Palace’s
Palace garden is Summer Opening
the largest private between August
garden in London and September
Historically, there were
presentations of There are
debutantes in the banquets and
Throne Room, which investitures in
were replaced by the palace’s
Garden Parties in 1958 Ballroom

17. DOWNING STREET
(Importance)
Built in the 1680s by Sir George
Downing, its importance lays on its
meaningful buildings

18. DOWNING STREET
(Location)
It is located in
Central London, in
the Whitehall road
An iconic street
and a well-known
site visited by lots
of tourists

19. DOWNING STREET
(History)
By 1857…
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

20. DOWNING STREET
(Security)
Nowadays…

21. CAMDEN TOWN
(Location)
London City Borought of
Camden

22. CAMDEN TOWN
(History)
Laid out in 1791, it was
part of the parish of St
Pancras, Middlesex

23. CAMDEN TOWN
(Importance)
Importance of Camden Town: Railways and location
Railway engine house in Camden Town’s railway,
Camden Town, London, 1851
1847

24. CAMDEN TOWN (Basis)
Commercial
activities: radical
change
Economic
basis
Alternative
markets and
tourism

25. CAMDEN TOWN
(Activities)
What can
I do in
Camden
Town?

26. CAMDEN TOWN
(Famous people)
Charles Amy Winehouse Walter Sickert
Dickens
Alan Bennett Oliver Dylan Thomas
Heaviside

27. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!

28. BIBLIOGRAPHY (1)
O Cover:
http://tinyurl.com/cg5g47r
O Houses of Parliament:
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O Buckingham palace:
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O Big Ben:
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29. BIBLIOGRAPHY (2)
O Westminster Abbey:
http://tinyurl.com/bhvpmz
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O Downing Street:
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http://tinyurl.com/c85ub4h
http://tinyurl.com/bthczo8
Google Earth

30. BIBLIOGRAPHY (3)
O Camden Town:
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