Fleet Street

London Day 4

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December 21st 2010
Today we disembarked the tube at Temple and headed along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral, now the legal district in the 12th Century, the headquarters of the Knights Templar. On the way we stopped in at the Temple Church where nine effigies of the once powerful Templar Knights lay on the floor, the boys weren't so impressed, apparently these are the bad guys in Assassin's Creed. Their ... read more

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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