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Whitefriars

American  
[hwahyt-frahy-erz, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌfraɪ ərz, ˈwaɪt- /

noun

  1. a district in central London, England.


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One of the estimated 600 schools with a classroom canine is Whitefriars Primary Academy in King's Lynn, Norfolk, which said Poppy the cockapoo helped with wellbeing and learning.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

Dorothy Spicer, 84, was found lying face down outside Whitefriars care home in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and died of pneumonia two months later.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2014

This combination continued for a week, during which time the low taverns were visited in succession, from Whitefriars to St. Catherine's, from Cripplegate to Southwark.

From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson

In the winter months the dinner was usually held in the front room of the first floor of the business premises of the proprietors, Messrs. Bradbury & Evans, in Bouverie Street, Whitefriars.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

Luckily for the beauty of the Embankment, these gas-works at Whitefriars, with their vast black reservoirs and all their smoke and fire, are about to be removed to Barking, seven miles from London.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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