Located on King Street in the heart of St. James’s, Almack’s Assembly Rooms was an exclusive and fashionable dance club that flourished during the Regency.

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home (sometimes known simply as Battersea Dogs Home, though cats have been taken in since 1883) is an animal rescue institution in London, founded in the north London district of Holloway 1860 under the name The

Birmingham is a large city in the English West Midlands and is now the second largest conurbation outside of London. During the Victorian era, the population swelled from 150,000 (1831) to over 500,000 (1901).

Newcastle is a large city in northeastern England, roughly 300 miles from London but only 100 miles south of Edinburgh.

Balaklava, now incorporated into Sevastopol, is the site of the charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, memorialized by Tennyson as the epitome of heroic failure during the Crimean War.

Wembley is an area in Northwest London and is part of the London Borough of Brent, forming part of Greater London. The name Wembley is taken from the old English for meadow or clearing.

Highgate Cemetary is a burial place in northern London. A number of famous literary and historical figures are buried here, including Karl Marx, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal.

Empire Stadium, the original Wembley Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley Park, London. It was first opened in 1923 and was built by Sir Robert McAlpine for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924.