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NOTES: Built in 1939, the old school was single-storey of brick construction, typical of school construction in the inter-war period. The new main teaching accommodation was three-storey of CLASP mark IV construction. The recess courtyard was designed to also be used as an open-air theatre.

NOTES: The extension to the existing Mayfield girls' school, designed by Powell & Moya for the London County Council, provided 1,620 new places and converted the school into a girls' comprehensive. The existing site on the north side of West Hill was increased by nine acres by taking in adjacent bomb-damaged properties.

NOTES: This secondary school provided places for 780 boys, based on the decentralized 'House' system of organization. It is now Marylebone Lower House, part of the North Westminster Community School.

NOTES: This secondary school provided places for 780 boys, based on the decentralized 'House' system of organization. It is now Marylebone Lower House, part of the North Westminster Community School.

NOTES: Laid out in 1670-1700 on land once known as Gelding's Close, this square became the ambassadorial and political district of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It declined as a fashionable address after 1730 with the western expansion of London, notably Mayfair. It was relandscaped by Westminster City Council in 1953.

NOTES: Laid out in 1670-1700 on land once known as Gelding's Close, this square became the ambassadorial and political district of the late 17th and early 18th centuries and had been gravelled over by 1720. It declined as a fashionable address after 1730 with the western expansion of London, notably Mayfair.

NOTES: This concrete block crossing was one of several types constructed by local boroughs complying with the Ministry of Transport's directive that demarcation should be by a lane of studs terminated by a Belisha beacon. Such crossings were superseded by the zebra crossing which, having been experimented on a 1000 sites throughout the UK in 1949, was introduced into law in 1951.

NOTES: This concrete block crossing was one of several types constructed by local boroughs complying with the Ministry of Transport's directive that demarcation should be by a lane of studs terminated by a Belisha beacon. Such crossings were superseded by the zebra crossing which, having been experimented on a 1000 sites throughout the UK in 1949, was introduced into law in 1951.

NOTES: Located on the bank of the River Neva, this Winter Palace was the fourth and final to be built. It was constructed between 1754 and 1764 for Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, and designed in Elizabethan Baroque style by several architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastelli. It was the official residence of the Russian Imperial family from the 1760s until 1917.