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We
met lovely lady from Poland, Bojena, who
is working and living in Worthing for a
year. We made her an Honoury Red Hat
member for the day. She was so happy and
never expected to have so much fun. As
you can see she really suited wearing
the purple clothes and Red Hat. She was
very excited about telling her family
what a lovely day she had in London.
It took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people
from five countries to make the London
Eye a reality. You can see around 40KM (25 miles) from the top as far as
Windsor Castle on a clear day. The
London Eye can carry 800 passengers per
revolution - equivalent to 11 London red
doubled-decker buses
The
height of the London Eye is 135m
(equivalent to 64 red telephone boxes
piled on top of each other) making it
the fourth tallest structure in London
after the BT Tower, Tower 42 and One
Canada Square in Canary Wharf.
At 135m, The London Eye is the
world’s largest cantilevered
observation wheel. It was conceived and
designed by Marks Barfield Architects
and was launched in 2000. It has already
won over 75 awards for national and
international tourism, outstanding
architectural quality and engineering
achievement and has now welcomed over 27
million visitors.
The
spindle holds the wheel structure and
the hub rotates it around the spindle.
At 23 meters tall, the spindle is around
the size of a church spire and, together
with the hub, weighs in at 330 tonnes:
over 20 times heavier than Big Ben
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