London, The Cenotaph c.1950
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North of the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall heads north towards Trafalgar Square. Once the site of a rambling royal palace largely burned down in the 1690s, the road gradually acquired government offices and the home of the prime minister in Downing Street - its entrance is just past the Cenotaph. On the left is Sir George Gilbert Scott's Foreign Office of the 1860s with the Cabinet Office of the 1840s beyond. The Cenotaph, the national war memorial and the heart of the Remembrance Day parade, is by Lutyens and dates from 1920.
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