A hook is a tool consisting of a length of material that contains a portion that is curved or indented, so that this portion can be used to hold another object.
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Leith Hill to the south west of Dorking, Surrey, England, reaches 294 metres (965 ft) above sea level, the highest point on the Greensand Ridge, and is the second highest point in south-east England, after Walbury Hill near Hungerford, West Berkshir…
The (1st Middlesex) County Asylum at Hanwell, also known as Hanwell Insane Asylum, and Hanwell Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, was built for the pauper insane.
The Handel House Museum is a museum in Mayfair, London dedicated to the life and works of the German-born baroque composer George Frideric Handel, who made his home in London in 1712 and eventually became a British citizen in 1727. Handel was the fi…
Golders Green is a London Underground station in Golders Green, north London. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line between Hampstead and Brent Cross.
Euston Road is an important thoroughfare in central London, England, and forms part of the A501. It was originally the central section of the New Road from Paddington to Islington, opened in 1756, London's first bypass, through the fields to the nor…
Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate Street, was a church in Newgate Street, opposite St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Established as a monastic church in the thirteenth century, it became a parish church after the…
Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and GIC and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture a…
Brixton is a London Underground station on Brixton Road in the Brixton district of the London Borough of Lambeth, South London. The station is the southern terminus of the Victoria line. The station was opened on 23 July 1971 by the London Transport…
Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is the memorial to Marc Bolan where he died when the car in which he was a passenger hit a sycamore tree on Queen's Ride (part of the B306, close to Gipsy Lane) in Barnes, London, on 16 September 1977.
The BT Centre is the global headquarters and registered office of BT Group, located in a 10-storey office building at 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ, opposite St. Paul's tube station. It was completed in 1985.
Amelia Sach (1873 – 3 February 1903) and Annie Walters (1869 – 3 February 1903) were two British murderers better known as the Finchley baby farmers.
Admiralty House in London is a Grade I listed building facing Whitehall, currently used for UK government functions and as ministerial flats.
Westbourne Park is a London Underground station in Westbourne Green of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
West Ham Stadium was a stadium that existed between 1928 and 1972 in Custom House, in east London (it was in the County Borough of West Ham, in the county of Essex, at the time of the stadium's construction).
The Tyburn is a stream in London, which ran underground from South Hampstead through St James's Park to meet the River Thames by Whitehall Stairs (near Downing Street and Thorney Street, between Millbank Tower and Thames House).
Toynbee Hall is a building in Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, and is the home to a charity of the same name.
The Three Mills are former working mills on the River Lea in the East End of London, one of London’s oldest extant industrial centres. The largest and most powerful of the four remaining tidal mills is possibly the largest tidal mill in the world.
St Giles-without-Cripplegate is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex. When built it stood without (that is, outside) the city wall, near the Cripplegate. The church is dedicated …