St Awdrys Road,Barking,London

We settle in at Barking for the week

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May 28th 2009
I forgot to mention yesterday about our 'interview' with the passport control officer at Stanstead when we arrived into England.She was a pleasant young French woman,very earnest and easy to deal with.Why the UK government employ French people at their border control is beyond us as we would have thought this was a job better suited to an English person with a greater interest about who they would ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more