day-1-chapter-3-city-of-westminster

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Day 1 – Chapter 3 – City of Westminster

City of Westminster, an inner London city and borough, it has been the capital city, de facto, of multiple British governments. Historically in Middlesex, it was established as the competition for the rich and powerful City of London. The London Westminster borough was created with the 1965 establishment of Greater London. Upon the creation, it inherited the city status previously held by the then Metropolitan Borough of Westminster from 1900, which was first awarded to Westminster in 1540. It is where the centre of the Greater London is located and it is also the capital, a synonym to the HM Government.

2020:02:10 16:32:16

2020:02:10 16:32:16

Westminster tube station, Jubilee line platform. It opened on 20 November 1999, after the construction of the extension of the Jubilee line. However, cut-and-cover District and Circle lines station is much older, it was initially opened on 24 December 1868 by the District Railway, with the District Railway's tracks were electrified during 1905. It was also a station for Middle Circle and Outer Circle (Ashley Rabot has a very interesting video about the topic). In 1949, the Metropolitan line-operated Inner Circle route was given its own identity on the tube map as the Circle line and of course earlier the District Railway was renamed District Line.

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