London Eye

The London Eye, at a height of 135 metres (443 ft), is the biggest ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the UK, visited by over 3 million people in one year. At the time it was erected it was the tallest ferris wheel in the world, until it was surpassed by the Star of Nanchang in China (160 m) in May 2006, and then the Singapore Flyer (165 m) on 11 February 2008.

The wheel carries 32 sealed and air-conditioned egg-shaped passenger capsules, attached to its external circumference, each capsule representing one of the London Boroughs. Each capsule holds 25 people, who are free to walk around. It rotates at 26 cm (10 in) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.6 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes. The wheel does not stop to take on passengers: the rotation rate is so slow that they can walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level.

Taken from Wikipedia, fountain of all knowledge on the internet.

The Albert on Victoria Street

This is the Albert, a pub on Victoria Street in London. It was built in 1864 and named after Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. By some miracle it escaped whatever intervention transformed the surrounding area into the Land of Monster Government Buildings, and stands proudly as a reminder of what London once looked like.

Signal box

Getting ready