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Somerset House
noun
a building in London, in the Strand, built (1776–86) by Sir William Chambers; formerly housed the General Register Office of births, marriages, and deaths: contains (from 1990) the art collections of the Courtauld Institute
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The animals, created in part by students at Wimbledon College of Arts, will start near London Bridge on Friday morning and will then visit Soho, Somerset House, Coram's Fields, Camden High Street and Stratford.
Three others were hurt after a van hit pedestrians at about 11:40 GMT, close to King's College London and Somerset House, Aldwych.
London's Somerset House narrowly avoided "complete disaster" on the scale of the Notre Dame blaze when it caught fire last week, its director has said.
Jonathan Reekie, director of Somerset House Trust, said it was thanks to "really quick-thinking staff" and the "amazing" response of London Fire Brigade that the fire was quickly put out.
London Fire Brigade is investigating the cause of the fire at Somerset House.
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