Saturday, June 21, 2008
| 21 | • There are 21 underground stations inside the Circle Line.
• Tower Hamlets is named after the 21 Hamlets Of The Tower: Bednal Green, Blackwall, Bow, Bromley, East Smithfield, Hackney, Limehouse, Mile End, Norton Folgate, Oldford, Poplar, Ratcliff, St Katharines, Shadwell, Shoreditch, Spittlefields, Tower Extra, Tower Intra, Trinity Minores, Wapping and White Chappel.
• The London 21 Sustainability Network runs the annual Love London Festival (which ends today).
• Gun salutes mark special royal occasions on certain days of the year in London. The basic Royal Salute is 21 rounds. At the Tower of London 62 rounds are fired on Royal anniversaries (the basic 21, plus a further 20 because the Tower is a Royal Palace and Fortress, plus another 21 'for the City of London') and 41 on other occasions.
• The A21 trunk road runs from Lewisham to Hastings.
• Bus route 21 runs from Lewisham to Newington Green. |
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