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{{quote|''"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."''
|'''[[Samuel Johnson]]'''}}
To Hollywood in many cases, [[Britain Is Only London]]. How they portray the place is generally split into two approaches:
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* The Lily Allen song "LDN". (A [[Crap Saccharine World]] take on London as a nice place unless you look closer.)
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' (see quotes page)
* The "Portobello Road" segment of ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'', but given it's Disney it's still rather clean and happy even as you run out of fingers counting the number of vendors who are out to defraud their customers.
== Where The Streets Are Paved With Both ==
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London has many famous streets. Some are best known from the UK version of [[Monopoly]]:
* Abbey Road -- [[The Beatles]], on the cover of their album of the same name, featured the band walking across what is consequently [[Overly Narrow Superlative|the most famous zebra crossing in the world]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110614204044/http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/ Numerous tourists traverse it in a similar manner].
* Harley Street—Home of many private medical facilities, but not on the board.
* Old Kent Road—the first spot past GO on the board, this road starts in Walworth and heads South East.
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* Stansted (STN). North east of London. Connected to London via Liverpool Street Station.
* Luton (LTN). Best known for the airline easyJet, featured in the [[Docu Soap]] ''Airline''.
* City Airport (LCY). In the London Docklands. Closest airport to central London. Too small for wide-body jets, but is convenient for domestic and European flights. Connected to the centre by the Docklands Light Railway.
* Biggin Hill (BQH). A private airport, formerly a famous RAF base. Still does an annual air show.
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'''Other Bits Of London in fiction'''
* The red buses. Most notably, the Routemasters, with their open back entrance. The Routemasters were removed by the last Mayor, Ken Livingston, but are in the process of being replaced by a twenty-first century version by current{{when}} mayor Boris Johnson.
* [[The London Underground]].
* "Pea Soup". London used to have a smog problem due to the burning of soft coal. [[Silent Hill|It's now gone]].
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See also:
* [[One London, Thirty
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