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Park Lane

Index Park Lane

Park Lane is a major road in the City of Westminster, in Central London. [1]

169 relations: A Night to Remember (book), Adele Astaire, Adie, Button and Partners, Aldford House, Alfred Beit, Alfred Munnings, AllMusic, Animals in War Memorial, Anna Neagle, Anne, Princess Royal, Apartment, Apsley House, Arthur Conan Doyle, Asia, Aston Martin, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Begging, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Benjamin Disraeli, Berkeley Square, Blue plaque, BMW, Board game, Bond Street, Boris Johnson, British Iron and Steel Research Association, Brook House (Park Lane), Brunei Investment Agency, Cecil Day-Lewis, Central line (London Underground), Central London, Characters in the Thursday Next series, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical), City of Westminster, Conservative Party (UK), Contact lens, Croxteth Hall, Cycling, Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Decimus Burton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, Dorchester Collection, Dorchester House, Dual carriageway, Dudley House, London, Duke of Somerset, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl of Holderness, ..., Earl of Rosebery, Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Elizabeth Taylor, Expurgation, Fifth Avenue, Four-wheel drive, Fred Astaire, Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas, George VI, Globalization, Governor-General of India, GQ, Greater London Authority, Green Park, Grosvenor House, Grosvenor House Hotel, Herbert Wilcox, Home Guard (United Kingdom), Homelessness, Horse & Hound, Hotel Bel-Air, Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Hyde Park Corner, Hyde Park Corner tube station, Hyde Park, London, InterContinental London Park Lane, Israel, Jasper Fforde, John Galsworthy, Keith Clifford Hall, Kingsway, London, Le Meurice, List of bus routes in London, List of night buses in London, List of Sultans of Brunei, Liverpool, Locked-room mystery, London Buses, London Buses route 10, London Buses route 13, London Buses route 137, London Buses route 16, London Buses route 2, London Buses route 36, London Buses route 73, London congestion charge, London Evening Standard, London Hilton on Park Lane, London Inner Ring Road, London Pride (song), London Underground, Londonderry House, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Marble Arch, Marble Arch tube station, Marquess of Londonderry, Marriott London Park Lane, Mary Poppins (film), Mayfair, Mayor of London, Mercedes-Benz, Metropolitan Police Service, Middle East, Mini Countryman, Mini sport utility vehicle, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Monopoly (game), Moses Montefiore, New York City, Noël Coward, Nouveau riche, Owen Williams (engineer), Oxford Street, Park Lane Mews Hotel, Penthouse apartment, Philip Sassoon, Piccadilly, Piccadilly line, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Reform Act 1867, Richard Burton, Richard Sharp (politician), RMS Titanic, Road, Robert B. Sherman, Scotland Road, Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel, Sherlock Holmes, Shirley Porter, Sidney Stanley, Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, Somerset House, Park Lane, Sports car, The Adventure of the Empty House, The Beverly Hills Hotel, The Dorchester, The Eyre Affair, The Forsyte Saga, The Forsyte Saga (1967 series), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Townhouse, Traffic congestion, Traffic light, Transport for London, Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard), Tyburn, Upper Grosvenor Street, W. Somerset Maugham, Waddingtons, Walter Lord, Warren Hastings, West End of London, Westminster City Council, Wolfgang Puck, World War II, 2007 London car bombs. Expand index (119 more) »

A Night to Remember (book)

A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord that depiects the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' on 15 April 1912.

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Adele Astaire

Adele, Lady Charles Cavendish (born Adele Marie Austerlitz; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981) was an American dancer, stage actress and singer.

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Adie, Button and Partners

Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed Stockwell Garage, a large bus depot in Stockwell, London, which opened in 1952 and is still in use.

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Aldford House

Aldford House was a grand mansion built on London's Park Lane in 1894–97 for the diamond magnate, Alfred Beit.

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Alfred Beit

Alfred Beit (15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906) was a British gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent.

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Alfred Munnings

Sir Alfred James Munnings, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Animals in War Memorial

The Animals in War Memorial is a war memorial in Hyde Park, London.

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Anna Neagle

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was a popular English stage and film actress, singer and dancer.

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Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal, (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Apsley House

Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. It was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Their sports cars are regarded as a British cultural icon. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to the Prince of Wales since 1982. It has over 150 car dealerships in over 50 countries on six continents making them a global automobile brand. Their headquarters and the main production site are in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, alongside one of Jaguar Land Rover's development centres on the site of a former RAF V Bomber airbase. One of Aston Martin's recent cars was named after the 1950s Vulcan Bomber. Aston Martin has exploited its branding for projects including speed boats, submarines, bicycles, monster trucks, clothing and real estate development..

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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Begging

Begging (also panhandling or mendicancy) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation.

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Benjamin Dean Wyatt

Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1775–1852) was an English architect.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a town square in Mayfair in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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BMW

BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke in German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English) is a German multinational company which currently produces luxury automobiles and motorcycles, and also produced aircraft engines until 1945.

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Board game

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

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Bond Street

Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), best known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist serving as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015.

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British Iron and Steel Research Association

The British Iron and Steel Research Association or BISRA, formed in 1944, was the research arm of the British steel industry.

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Brook House (Park Lane)

Brook House located at 113 Park Lane in Mayfair, London, was built by Thomas Henry Wyatt from 1867 to 1869.

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Brunei Investment Agency

The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) is a government-owned corporation that report to the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Brunei.

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Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972.

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Central line (London Underground)

The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from, Essex, in the north-east to and in the west.

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Central London

Central London is the innermost part of London, in the United Kingdom, spanning several boroughs.

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Characters in the Thursday Next series

The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot.

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Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry

Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peer known for his political career in Britain.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a stage musical based on the 1968 film produced by Albert R. Broccoli.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Contact lens

A contact lens, or simply contact, is a thin lens placed directly on the surface of the eye.

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Croxteth Hall

Croxteth Hall in Croxteth, Liverpool, is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton.

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Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.

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Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France.

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Decimus Burton

Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects of the 19th century.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Dodi Fayed

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em El-Fayed (عماد الدين محمد أنور شاكر عبدالسيد الفايد), better known as Dodi Fayed (15 April 1955 – 31 August 1997), was the son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed El Fayed.

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Dorchester Collection

Dorchester Collection is a luxury hotel operator owned by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), an arm of the Ministry of Finance of Brunei.

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Dorchester House

Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, London, built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (British English) or divided highway (American English) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation.

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Dudley House, London

Dudley House is a Grade II* listed house with located at 100 Park Lane in Mayfair, London.

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Duke of Somerset

Duke of Somerset is a title in the peerage of England that has been created several times.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Earl of Holderness

The title Earl of Holderness also known as Holdernesse existed in the late 11th and early 12th centuries as a feudal lordship and was officially created three times in the Peerage of England namely in 1621, in 1644 as a subsidiary title to that of the then-Duke of Cumberland and in 1682.

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Earl of Rosebery

Earl of Rosebery is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1703 for Archibald Primrose, 1st Viscount of Rosebery, with remainder to his issue male and female successively.

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Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry

Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (née Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

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Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, (née Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960) was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last Vicereine of India as wife of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-born American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian.

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Expurgation

Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media.

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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

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Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas

The A–Z (pronounced "Ay to Zed"), or in full the Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas, is a name given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom currently produced by Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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GQ

GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Greater London Authority

The Greater London Authority (GLA) is a top-tier administrative body for Greater London, England.

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Green Park

The Green Park, usually known without the article simply as Green Park, is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Grosvenor House

Grosvenor House was one of the largest private townhouses situated on Park Lane in London.

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Grosvenor House Hotel

Grosvenor House is a luxury hotel that opened in 1929 in the Mayfair area of London, England.

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Herbert Wilcox

Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977), was a British film producer and director who was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Homelessness

Homelessness is the circumstance when people are without a permanent dwelling, such as a house or apartment.

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Horse & Hound

Horse & Hound is the oldest equestrian weekly magazine of the United Kingdom.

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Hotel Bel-Air

The Hotel Bel-Air is a boutique hotel located in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California.

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Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster

Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845 and Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869 and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.

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Hyde Park Corner

Hyde Park Corner is an area in London, England, located around a major road junction at the southeastern corner of Hyde Park.

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Hyde Park Corner tube station

Hyde Park Corner is a London Underground station near Hyde Park Corner in Hyde Park.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a Grade I-listed major park in Central London.

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InterContinental London Park Lane

InterContinental London Park Lane is a luxury 5-star hotel in London, England.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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Keith Clifford Hall

Keith Clifford Hall (b. 29 March 1910, Cambridge - d. 16 December 1964, Bergen) was a British ophthalmic optician and pioneer of contact lenses.

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Kingsway, London

Kingsway is a major road in central London, designated as part of the A4200.

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Le Meurice

Le Meurice is a 5-star hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli.

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List of bus routes in London

This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches).

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List of night buses in London

The London Night Bus network is a series of night bus routes that serve Greater London.

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List of Sultans of Brunei

The Sultan of Brunei is the head of state and absolute monarch of Brunei.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Locked-room mystery

The locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime — almost always murder — is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene.

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London Buses

London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages bus services within Greater London.

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London Buses route 10

London Buses route 10 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 13

London Buses Route 13 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 137

London Buses route 137 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 16

London Buses route 16 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 2

London Buses route 2 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 36

London Buses route 36 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 73

London Buses route 73 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London congestion charge

The London congestion charge is a fee charged on most motor vehicles operating within the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) in Central London between 07:00 and 18:00 Mondays to Fridays.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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London Hilton on Park Lane

The London Hilton on Park Lane is a hotel situated on Park Lane, overlooking Hyde Park in the exclusive Mayfair district of London.

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London Inner Ring Road

The London Inner Ring Road, or Ring Road as signposted, is a route formed from a number of major roads that encircle Central London.

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London Pride (song)

"London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Londonderry House

Londonderry House was an aristocratic townhouse situated on Park Lane in the Mayfair district of London, England.

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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Marble Arch

Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble faced triumphal arch in London, England.

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Marble Arch tube station

Marble Arch is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster.

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Marquess of Londonderry

Marquess of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Marriott London Park Lane

London Marriott Hotel Park Lane is a luxury 5-star hotel in London, England.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the east edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane.

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Mayor of London

The Mayor of London is the head of the executive body of the Greater London Authority.

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a global automobile marque and a division of the German company Daimler AG.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Mini Countryman

The Mini Countryman is a subcompact crossover SUV, the first car of this type to be launched by Mini.

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Mini sport utility vehicle

Mini SUV, also called subcompact SUV or subcompact crossover, is a class of small sport utility vehicles with a length under and around.

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Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mohamed Al-Fayed (محمد أنور شاكر عبد السيد الفايد,; born 27 January 1929) is an Egyptian business magnate.

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a board game where players roll two six-sided dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties, and develop them with houses and hotels.

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Moses Montefiore

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, FRS (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Nouveau riche

"Nouveau riche" (French: 'new rich') is a term, usually derogatory, to describe those whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation, rather than by familial inheritance.

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Owen Williams (engineer)

Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was a British engineer and architect, known for being the principal engineer for Gravelly Hill Interchange (known popularly as Spaghetti Junction) as well as a number of key modernist buildings, including the Express Building in Manchester and Boots D10 Building in Nottingham.

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Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus.

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Park Lane Mews Hotel

The Park Lane Mews Hotel (formerly the Hilton London Mews Hotel) is a luxury 4-star boutique hotel in London's Mayfair district.

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Penthouse apartment

A penthouse apartment or a penthouse is an apartment or unit on the highest floor of an apartment building, condominium or hotel.

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Philip Sassoon

Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, (4 December 1888 – 3 June 1939) was a British politician, art collector and social host, entertaining many celebrity guests at his homes, Port Lympne Mansion, Kent, and Trent Park, Hertfordshire, England.

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Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a road in the City of Westminster, London to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east.

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Piccadilly line

The Piccadilly line is a London Underground line that runs between in suburban north London and in the west, where it divides into two branches: one of these runs to Heathrow Airport and the other to in northwest London, with some services terminating at.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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Reform Act 1867

The Representation of the People Act 1867, 30 & 31 Vict.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton, CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Sharp (politician)

Richard Sharp, FRS, FSA (1759 – 30 March 1835), also known as "Conversation" Sharp, was a British hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalist.

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RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

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Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

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Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012)Robert B. Sherman IMDB.com Profile> was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman.

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Scotland Road

Scotland Road or "Scottie Road" is the A59 and is situated near the docks in the Vauxhall area of north Liverpool, England.

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Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel

The Sheraton Grand London Park Lane is a 5 Star hotel on Piccadilly, London.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Shirley Porter

Dame Shirley Porter, Lady Porter DBE (née Cohen; born 29 November 1930) is a British politician who led Westminster City Council in London representing the Conservative Party.

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Sidney Stanley

Sidney (or Sydney) Stanley (né Solomon Wulkan, alias Solomon Koszyski,Wade Baron (1966) p.161 alias Stanley Rechtand,Wade Baron (1966) p.136 later Schlomo ben ChaimWade Baron (1966) p.246) (1899/1905 – 1969) was a Polish émigré to the UK who became a dubious businessman of precarious ethics before claiming to be a contact man, able to influence politicians and civil servants in return for cash bribes, claims that led to a great scandal and investigation by the Lynskey tribunal of 1948.

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Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet

Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, 1st Baronet (3 August 1840 – 30 October 1929) was a South African mining magnate and Randlord.

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Somerset House, Park Lane

Somerset House, Park Lane (built 1769–70; demolished 1915), was an 18th-century town house on the east side of Park Lane, where it meets Oxford Street, in the Mayfair area of London.

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Sports car

A sports car, or sportscar, is a small, usually two-seater, two-door automobile designed for spirited performance and nimble handling.

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The Adventure of the Empty House

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Beverly Hills Hotel

The Beverly Hills Hotel, also called The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, is located on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California.

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The Dorchester

The Dorchester is a five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane and Deanery Street, London, to the east of Hyde Park.

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The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.

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The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy.

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The Forsyte Saga (1967 series)

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers.

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Townhouse

A townhouse, or town house as used in North America, Asia, Australia, South Africa and parts of Europe, is a type of terraced housing.

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Traffic congestion

Traffic congestion is a condition on transport networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.

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Traffic light

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control flows of traffic.

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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London, England.

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Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard)

Trevor Rees-Jones (also known as Trevor Rees; born 3 March 1968) is a German-born British bodyguard who was badly injured in the car crash in Paris that killed Diana, Princess of Wales on 31 August 1997.

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Tyburn

Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London.

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Upper Grosvenor Street

Upper Grosvenor Street is a historic street in Mayfair, London, United Kingdom.

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.

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Waddingtons

Waddingtons was a publisher of card and board games in the United Kingdom.

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Walter Lord

John Walter Lord, Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002), was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember (1955), about the sinking of the ''RMS Titanic''.

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is an area of Central and West London in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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Wolfgang Puck

Wolfgang Johannes Puck (né Topfschnig; born July 8, 1949) is an Austrian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and occasional actor.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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2007 London car bombs

On 29 June 2007, in London, two car bombs were discovered and disabled before they could be detonated.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Lane

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