10 Lower Thames Street

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Dutch Master was built in 1961 as Prinseplaart for Rotterdam-based Spido. She was 37.7metres long and carried 440 passengers. She left the fleet in 1999, and was bought by Thames Leisure of London for charter work, and was renamed Dutch Master. The passenger ship PRINSEPLAAT was built in Duisburg on the Ruhrorter Schiffswerft (RSW) for the shipping company P. Smit. The entrance was designed, inter alia, for harbor cruises in Rotterdam, excursions and also for inquiries on the construction sites of the Deltaplans (Deltawerken) coastal protection measure. Name: Prinseplaat Type of vessel: Passenger ship Applicant: P. Smit Jr. Overall length: 37.70 m Length in the WL: 35.50 m Total width: 8.08 m Width on frame: 7.80 m Side height: 3.00 m Fixed point over WL: 8,20 m Draft (loaded): 1.92 m Number of persons: 475 pax Classification: Germanischer Lloyd, GL + 100 A4 Engine power: 4x 140 hp / 1,800 rpm Wngine manufacturer: Mercedes-Benz, type OM 326 Propulsion: 2 Voith-Schneider propellers, type VSP 14E / 90 Transmission: Tacke, reduction 1: 2,44 Speed: 21 km / h Auxiliary diesel: 1x 15 hp, 1x 30 hp (Samofa) Year of construction: 1961 Shipyard: RSW, Duisburg Hull-No. 220 Commissioned: May 18, 1961 The PRINSEPLAAT is a sister ship of the CITY ROTTERDAM, which was put into service in 1962. The latter was extended by two meters in the new building.

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20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed 'The Walkie-Talkie' because of its distinctive shape. Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three-floor 'sky garden' was opened in January 2015. The 38-story building is 160 m (525 ft) tall.

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30 St Mary Axe (known previously as the Swiss Re Building), informally known as The Gherkin, is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. With 41 floors, it is 180 metres (591 ft) tall and stands on the former sites of the Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping, which were extensively damaged in 1992 in the Baltic Exchange bombing by a device placed by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, a narrow street leading north from Leadenhall Street.

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Old Billingsgate Market is the name given to what is now a hospitality and events venue in the City of London, based in the Victorian building that was originally Billingsgate Fish Market, the world's largest fish market in the 19th century.

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