Parliament Square is a square at the northwest end of the Palace of Westminster in the City of Westminster in central London, England. Laid out in the 19th century, it features a large open green area
Parliament Square in 2023
1949 proposed layout of Parliament Square with the former location of the Buxton Memorial Fountain marked in red.
Panoramic view from the centre of Parliament Square in June 2009 (left to right): Government offices; the Elizabeth Tower and the Palace of Westminster; St Margaret's and Westminster Abbey; Middlesex Guildhall of the Supreme Court.
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea. It is the main thoroughfare running
Parliament Square
…is overlooked by various official buildings: legislature to the east (in the Houses of Parliament), governmental executive offices to the north (on Whitehall), the judiciary to the west (the Supreme Court), and the church to the south (with Westminster Abbey). Parliament Square sometimes features all of the…
Whitehall pictured in 2012, with The Cenotaph (distant) and Monument to the Women of World War II in the middle of the carriageway, and the Elizabeth Tower housing Big Ben in the background.
Whitehall, looking south in 1740: Inigo Jones' Banqueting House (1622) on the left, William Kent's Treasury buildings (1733–37) on the right, the Holbein Gate (1532, demolished 1759) at centre.
People gathered in Whitehall to hear Winston Churchill's victory speech, 8 May 1945
View of the Horse Guards Building from Whitehall, showing the three arches that link it to Horse Guards Parade