Du Cane Court is a 1930s low-rise Art Deco complex of over 650 flats set in oriental gardens in Balham, South London.
A distinctive local landmark, it was opened in 1937 and is the largest privately owned apartment block in Europe.
It is so distinctive that it was reputedly used as a navigational landmark by German pilots bombing London during the Second World War.

Witanhurst is the name of a historical Georgian-style mansion located on an 5 acre estate in the village of Highgate, North London.

It is the second-largest house in London in private ownership, the largest being Buckingham Palace.

Three Mills were working mills on the River Lee in the East End of London, one of London’s oldest still-surviving industrial centres, the largest and most powerful of the four remaining tidal mills in Britain, and is possibly the largest tidal mill in the world.

Nearby, the 3 Mills Studios are a 20 acre film studios, making a large number of major films and television programmes.

The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, and is located in Lime Street, in the City of London.
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built over eight years from 1978 to 1986. Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving a clean uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK.

Robert Nesta Marley, better known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for having popularized the genre outside Jamaica. A faithful Rastafari, Marley is regarded by many as a prophet of the religion as well as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

His best known songs are a mixture of reggae, rock, and rhythm and blues, and include "I Shot the Sheriff", made famous in 1974 by Eric Clapton, which raised Marley's international profile "No Woman No Cry", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Jamming","Redemption Song" and one of his most famous songs, "One Love". His posthumous album Legend (1984) became the best-selling reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12 million copies.

Battersea Power Station in London, England, completed in 1939, was the first in a series of very large (for the era) coal-fired electrical generating facilities set up in England as part of the National Grid power distribution system then being introduced. The grade II listed building is being converted to a large commercial and entertainment complex as the centrepiece of a project to rejuvenate the area.

Cable Street runs between the edge of The City and Limehouse: parallel-to and south of the Docklands Light Railway and Commercial Road, and north of The Highway.

The area is close to Wapping and Shadwell Basin (to the south), Tower Hill (to the west), and Whitechapel and Stepney (to the north). As many Londoners now define their locality by the nearest tube stations, this area is often referred to as Shadwell.

Cable Street is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in postal district E1. It lies within the parliamentary constituencies of Bethnal Green and Bow and Poplar and Canning Town, currently represented by George Galloway and Jim Fitzpatrick.

The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event which takes place in Notting Hill, London, England each August, over three days (a weekend and a bank holiday). It is led by members of the Caribbean population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival attracts up to 1.5 million people, making it the largest street festival in the world.

Despite the latest updated images on Google Maps and Google Earth both have still not explained why there was a mysterious black hole just off Windmill Lane, Osterley, West London. Some say it's the London home of the Sultan of Brunei and unless anyone can prove me wrong, I'll leave it at that!

As you can see from the updated images, the buildings are now visable in all their glory!

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The Ruislip Lido Railway is a 12-inch (305-mm) gauge miniature railway, running around the popular tourist attraction of 'Ruislip Lido' in Ruislip, Greater London, just 14 miles (22.5 km) from the centre of London. The railway runs from the main station at Woody Bay by the lido's beach, round a 1.5-mile (2.4-km) track around the lake, through the Ruislip woods to 'Water's Edge Station' by the lido's car park.