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Downing Street
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About Downing Street
From the outside Downing Street seems surprisingly dull, and not unlike a thousand other streets you’ll see in the city. But not every street has a ten-feet gate and policeman on the doorstep.
During the English civil war that resulted in King Charles I being beheaded, Mr. George Downing was the intelligence chief to Oliver Cromwell. When Cromwell died in 1658, Downing realized that his comfortable lifestyle was in danger, and went cap in hand to the new King Charles II. Charles was natu...
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