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Gainsborough Primary School is situated in Hackney Wick in the London borough of Hackney and is the closest school to the new Olympic site for the London 2012 games.

Stonebridge Road is a multi-purpose stadium in Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, England, which is primarily used for football matches. Stonebridge Road was constructed in 1905, and was initially the home of Northfleet F.C., which merged with Gravesend F.C. in 1946. It is currently the home ground of Ebbsfleet United F.C. (formerly Gravesend & Northfleet F.C.). Thus, Stonebridge Road has been the home of Ebbsfleet and its predecessor football clubs for over 100 years.

Greenhithe railway station serves the village of Greenhithe in north Kent and Bluewater Shopping Centre. Train services are operated by Southeastern.DesignBefore Bluewater was built Greenhithe station was just a small village station serving a few commuters, and did not handle much traffic. The only access between the entrance and the London-bound platform was via a subway with no disabled access.The station was rebuilt in 2008 to improve accessibility for disabled users and upgrade the station and ticketing facilities. The construction used a modular design developed by Network Rail that was first pioneered at Greenhithe with and later constructed in the same way.The subway has been replaced by a bridge with stairs and lift access at both ends. The new station entrance and booking hall lies directly between the bridge and the bus stop outside (see Fastrack below). Before the construction of this stop and its access road, buses had to stop some distance away downhill and passengers had to transfer via stairs and a footpath.ServicesThe typical off-peak service from the station is:2tph to via, and Lewisham2tph to via and 2tph to 2tph to GillinghamFastrackFrequent Fastrack shuttle bus services run between Greenhithe station and Bluewater. Similarly Fastrack provides a frequent service to Dartford, and Gravesend.

Hackney North and Stoke Newington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since 1987 by Diane Abbott of the Labour Party.

Latymer Upper School is a selective independent school in Hammersmith, West London, England, lying between King Street and the Thames. Founded by Edward Latymer in 1624, it is now a coeducational school with over 1200 pupils. It has a Prep department for pupils aged 7 to 11. It is considered one of the leading academic schools in the country, as measured by its position in the national league tables of GCSE and A level performance, as well as being amongst the top schools with respect to the arts and sport. The Sixth Form of 340 is one of the largest in London and offers 40 academic courses as well as extra curricular activities. According to the Good Schools Guide, the school "aims to set new standards for co-education in west London.", the school charges fees of £16,035 a year per student.

St Paul's Girls' School is an independent day school for girls, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England. It is one of a handful of schools in the country which does not have a prescribed school uniform.HistorySt Paul’s Girls’ School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part of the endowment of the foundation set up by John Colet, to create a girls’ school to complement the boys' school he had founded in the sixteenth century. The governors hold proprietorial responsibility, and some are representatives of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.The buildings for the school were designed by the architect Gerald Horsley, the son of the painter John Callcott Horsley and one of the founder members of the Art Workers Guild.The school has had several distinguished directors of music, most notably Gustav Holst (1905–34) and Herbert Howells (1936–62). Holst composed his St Paul's and Brook Green suites for the pupils at the school. Holst also composed what is arguably his most well known work, "The Planets" while teaching at St Paul's.

Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, several miles away in central London.

The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent day school for girls in Hammersmith, West London.The school motto is an ancient Cornish phrase, Francha Leale Toge, which translates as "free and loyal art thou".The Good Schools Guide called the school a "Very strong academic school with a friendly atmosphere, an outstanding head and a broad range of extra-curricular activities."HistoryIt was built in 1861 as the Godolphin School, a boarding establishment for boys, set in fields near the River Thames at Hammersmith in West London. In 1905 it became an independent day school for girls, associated with the Latymer Foundation and taking the name of the Godolphin and Latymer School. From 1906 onwards it received grants from the London County Council and the Local Education Authority for equipment, library books and buildings. In 1939 the whole school was evacuated from London with no forward planning for where the school would stay. In 1951 the school became a state Voluntary aided school under the Education Act 1944, and ceased to charge fees to pupils. After the abolition of the scheme, the school chose to revert to full independent status in 1977 rather than join the state system and turn comprehensive and resumed the charging of fees to pupils.The Godolphin and Latymer School celebrated its centenary in May 2005 with a service at St. Paul's Cathedral.

The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, later simply the Hammersmith Palais, was a ballroom and entertainment venue in London that operated from 1919 until 2007. In 2009, the Hammersmith Palais was named by the Brecon Jazz Festival as one of twelve venues which had made the most important contributions to jazz music in the United Kingdom.The Palais occupied a large site on the A219 at 242 Shepherd's Bush Road, London W6, near the circular system under the A4 Hammersmith flyover. The area, one of London's key communication nodes, has two London Underground stations, a bus station, and the road network at Hammersmith Broadway.HistoryThe Palais de Danse opened in 1919 in order to host ballroom dancing and various kinds of dance bands, among which were the new jazz bands. It remained a popular dance venue from its start to the 1980s, but after that played host mainly to live pop music. For a period in the 1930s, part of the Palais site was also used as an ice rink, with the original London Lions ice hockey team using it as a base. On 21 January 2007, the Palais was condemned for demolition. The venue closed in April 2007.

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London, and forms part of Inner London. Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough. The local authority is Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council.HistoryThe borough was formed in 1965 by merging the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham. It was known as the 'London Borough of Hammersmith' until its name was changed on 1 January 1979 by the borough council. The two had been joined together previously as the Fulham District from 1855 to 1886.In 1908, the Franco-British Exhibition and Olympic Games were hosted in the borough, at White City, but the site then took many decades to be redeveloped. In 1960, the BBC opened the BBC Television Centre, and in 2008, Westfield London, a large development with new transport links and a shopping centre, finally completed the redevelopment after one hundred years.

Hampstead and Kilburn is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by former actress Glenda Jackson of the Labour Party.HistoryThe constituency was created for the 2010 general election in which it was won by Labour's Glenda Jackson with a majority of just 42, making it the second most marginal seat in the 2010 UK Parliament, after Fermanagh and South Tyrone and so most marginal in England. Hampstead and Kilburn is also the closest three-way marginal seat in the 2010 Parliament, as the third-placed candidate obtained just 841 fewer votes than the winner. In January 2013, Glenda Jackson formally announced that she would not seek re-election as Hampstead and Kilburn's MP in 2015. She is one of 7 Labour MPs who are standing down at the next general election. The Conservative Party candidate for 2015 is Simon Marcus, a councillor in Hampstead Town ward. The Labour Party candidate will be announced on 14 July 2013 following a vote by local party members. The Liberal Democrat candidate is yet to be selected.

The Royal School, Hampstead, was an independent girls' day and boarding school located in Hampstead, London, England. The school educated girls aged 3-16. The school merged with North Bridge House School at the end of the academic year (2011/12) under the management of Cognita.The GCSE pass rate, in 2008, was 99%, with 89% of pupils gaining A* to C grades and a third achieving either A* or A grades.The London Borough of Camden has consistently suffered severe congestion because of parents ferrying their children to and from school by car. However, The Royal School introduced a range of initiatives to help address this problem.Dr Rashmi Patel, the appointed dentist to the school, received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2004.The school site is now used as a senior campus of North Bridge House School.HistoryThe Royal School was founded in 1855 as the Soldiers' Infant Home before becoming the Royal Soldiers' Daughters' School. It was established "to nurse, board, clothe and educate the female children, orphans or not, of soldiers in Her Majesty's Army killed in the Crimean War". Today, the patron of the school is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The Duchess visited the school, on 25 February 2009, to thank them for their fund raising activities for her charity, the National Osteoporosis Society.