Built almost 150 years ago, St. Pancras is widely famous for being one of the two terminal stations of the Eurostar who crosses the English Channel, with direct connections to Paris and many cities of Belgium and the Netherlands. In what it happens to be an exception to the logic of the european railway stations, St. Pancras has a complete separate sector for the international terminal within, with strict security measures and controls, similar in that sense to an airport. Thorughout its history, this station went through three different stages: the first one was during its first 100 years, when it was planned for the transportation of goods but also ended as a passenger hub. It was damaged by the german bombings during the Second World War. The second stage was in the decades who followed the 1960s, when it was planned to be demolished. And the third, the recent history when it became an international rail icon.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the Museum of Decorative Arts of London, nowadays the biggest of its kind in the world with more than two milliones historical objects and a vast collection of great value similar to those of the Louvre and the British Museum. Amongst its most recognized galleries are the Islamic Art gallery, those dedicated to the old cultures of India and Southeast Asia, and the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries.
The Natural History Museum of London is one of the parts of a series of museums and institutions that are concentrated in the Kensington neighborhood. Its worldwide importance is similar to that of the MHN of New York City and its collections transcend the scientific value, being a historical focus of several branches of studies. The huge complex that houses the museum includes teaching centers, laboratories, robotic animals (including a T-Rex), and the Charles Darwin specimen collection.
King's Cross is usually considered as a part of a two-combined railway stations along with St. Pancras, in what it can also be considered as a transportation hub, with the arrival of the Underground, many buses lines and the Euston Station just a few blocks away. It's widely famous for the filming of the Harry Potter scenes, especially with the Platform 9¾.
Currently planned to be the station with the largest number of passengers in Europe, London Waterloo is far from other railway examples of the city because it was not originally intended as a terminal, but as an intermediate stop to the City of London, on the other side of the River Thames. From 1994 to 2007, it was the starting point of the Eurostar towards Paris, which ended with the opening of St Pancras already renewed.
Hay's Galleria was one of the many warehouse buildings lying at the River Thames, in this case at the South Bank. It was built almost 150 years ago, in the times when the Thames became a huge city port surrounded by modern wharfs and factories who employed thousands of workers. Hay's Wharf was then reconverted into a commercial gallery almost 40 years ago, when old buildings of both shores were recycled for new purposes.
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