is a place in the
London Borough Of Hammersmith And Fulham in
London in
England . Home to the
BBC Television Centre and
BBC White City , is was level arable farmfields until it became the site of the
Franco-British Exhibition and the
Olympic Games in
1908 and the
Japan-British Exhibition in
1910 . It was known at that time as the ''White City'' due to the white
Marble cladding used on the exhibition pavillions, and hence gave its name to this part of
Shepherd's Bush . To house a part of Shepherd's Bush's growing population, a five storey housing estate was built, to which the name of the White City would come to refer. While, after the Exhibitions, the
Stadium in the north of the area hosted a
Greyhound Racing track and athletics ground, sited where the
BBC now has its administrative headquarters.
Westfield Group (with Hausinvest Europa) is building a new shopping centre, bounded by the
West Cross Route (
A3220 , formerly the
M41 motorway), the
Westway (
A40 ) and
Wood Lane (
A219 ). This centre will be branded "whitecity" (a registered trade mark).
Two new stations will be built to serve the centre close to the sites of closed former London Underground stations. A new station will be built on the
Hammersmith And City Line at the
Wood Lane overbridge, between
Shepherd's Bush and
Latimer Road stations. This is located approximately where
Wood Lane Station was situated until it was closed in
1959 after a fire. The station will be positioned east of Wood Lane and north of the line, to minimise the walking distance for those connecting with the
Central Line station at
White City .
There will also be a new station opened on the
West London Line which lies to the east of the site and runs between
Clapham Junction and
Willesden Junction . The station will be sited adjacent to the Holland Park roundabout close to the location of
Uxbridge Road Station (closed
1940 ) between
Kensington (Olympia) and
Willesden Junction .
In the early years of competitive international sport, the long distance
Marathon race did not have a standard set distance. The distance run at the first seven Olympics from
1896 to
1920 varied between 40
Km and 42.75 km. The starting point of the race at the
1908 Olympics was at
Windsor Castle creating a distance of 26
Mile s 385
Yard s (42.195 km) to the finishing line at White City stadium. In
1921 this was adopted as the standard distance.
in November 1985 on Atco. The title refers to a story which accompanies the album and which takes place in the London area of White City.
For other places called see the disambiguation page at
White City .
