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126  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA

Street-by-Street: Bloomsbury

This so-called “brainy quarter” The Senate House (1932)
is dominated by the grand is the administrative
headquarters of
British Museum and, to its the University
north, the main campus of of London. It holds
University College London. a priceless library.
The area is full of Georgian
buildings (formerly the A R E
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1 . British Museum E R E
Designed in the mid-19th century, T G M U S E U M
this popular museum attracts some
five million visitors a year. C O P T I C S T L I T T L E R U S S E L L S T R E E T
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Museum Street is lined with Pizza Express occupies a
small cafés and shops selling charming and little-altered
old books, prints and antiques. Victorian dairy.
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