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Description: | The Palace of Westminster is one of London?s best-known landmarks, and has been the venue of most English and British Parliaments since the first (or ?Model?) Parliament in 1295. The current building was completed in 1870, and replaced the previous Palace (once a royal residence), which had been destroyed by fire in 1834. Further damage occurred when the Commons chamber was destroyed by a German bomb in 1941. The chamber was reconstructed in a similar style to the original and re-opened in 1950. The Palace became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society | Subjects: | Power and Politics Cityscape | Temporal: | c1910 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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