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CARNABY STREET

• Carnaby Street is a pedestrianized street in the London area Soho , near Oxford Street and Regent Street . 

• The street is famous for its many shops selling fashion and lifestyle and is associated with the 1960s Swinging London.

• The classic and legendary fashion street is again one of London's coolest and trendiest shopping streets.

• Carnaby is known for holding fantastic shopping events, live music gigs and one-off pop-up shops.

BRITISH BRANDS

• Carnaby is known for British brands:

• Ben Sherman, Pretty Green, Paul Smith Soho, Barbour Heritage and Lyle & Scott. New additions to Carnaby are Scotch & Soda, SuperTrash, adidas Originals, ELEVENPARIS and Brandy Melville.

THE HISTORY OF CARNABY STREET

• Historically, Carnaby Street derives its name from Karnaby House, located to the East and originally erected in 1683.

• It is not known why the House was called this. The street was probably given in 1685 or 1686. While it is unclear why it was called that way, one of the legends that demands that it belonged to the family Karnaby. This family dates back to the times of the early Northumberland, some say they were long before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Street began to be known as the Carnaby, and soon after theKarnaby market was established. In the following years developed area ...

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT

• The lower house is directly elected and it consists of 650 members. There are 533 from England, 59 from Scotland, 40 from Wales and 18 from  the Noerthen Ireland selected from as many constituencies.

• The Houses of Parliament, also known as the Palace of Westminster, has been home of the British Government for over 900 years.

• 1834 a great fire broke out and destroyed most of the old palace.

• The most famous feature of the Houses of Parliament is its clock tower, known as Big Ben.

• In 1265 a parliament was created with two houses: the Lords and the Commons.

WESTMINSTER HALL

• The oldest hall of the Houses of Parliament is Westminster Hall, dating back to 1097.

• The large hammer beam roof was built in the fourteenth century and replaced the original roof which was supported by two rows of pillars.

• The hall is one of Europe's largest unsupported medieval halls. 

COMMONS CHAMBER & LORDS CHAMBER

• The Commons Chamber, where the House of Commons meets, was destroyed during the Second World War but rebuilt in 1950 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the same neo-Gothic style. The Commons Chamber's interior (with green colored benches) is rather austere compared to the lavishly decorated Lords Chamber (with red colored benches). Over the centuries the balance of power has moved from the elitist House of Lords to the more agitated the House of Commons, where the governing party and the opposition are seated opposite each other with exactly two sword lengths and one foot separating the two parties.

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