London
Great Britain | 1987 | Super 8 | Color | Silent | 18:29 min
Petticoat Lane Market 
Piccadilly Circus 
Haymarket 
Trafalgar Square 
Household Cavalry in Whitehall 
Tower of London
Film synopsis
- House in a rural setting
- Petticoat Lane Market in the East End
- Hotel Crichton
- Piccadilly Circus
- Red double-decker buses at Haymarket
- Visitors feeding pigeons at Trafalgar Square
- Changing of the Guard by the Household Cavalry in Whitehall
- Downing Street
- Big Ben, Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey
- Royal Guard and Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace
- Tower of London and Tower Bridge
- Small town near London
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