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The SW (South Western and Battersea) postcode area, also known as the London SW postcode area, is a group of postcode districts covering part of southwest London, England. The area originates from the South Western (SW1–SW10) and Battersea (SW11–SW20) districts of the London post town.

Postal administration

The postcode area originated in 1857 as the SW district. In 1868 it gained some of the area of the abolished S district, with the rest going to SE. It was divided into numbered districts in 1917. The South Western district consists of the postcode districts SW1–SW10 and the Battersea district consists of the postcode districts SW11–SW20.

List of postcode districts

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts, with the historic postal district names shown in italics:

SW1

SW1 was originally the South Western head district. As it is now of very high density development it has been divided into smaller postcode districts. Where districts are used for purposes other than the sorting of mail, such as use as a geographic reference and on street signs, the SW1 subdivisions continue to be classed as one 'district'. Within the SW1 postcode district there are several distinctive postcode units:

Banks (singer)

Jillian Rose Banks (born June 16, 1988), known simply as Banks (often stylized as BANKS), is an American singer and songwriter from Orange County, California. She releases music under Harvest Records, Good Years Recordings and IAMSOUND Records imprints of the major label Universal Music Group.

She has toured internationally with The Weeknd and was also nominated for the Sound of 2014 award by the BBC and an MTV Brand New Nominee in 2014. On May 3, 2014, Banks was dubbed as an "Artist to Watch" by FoxWeekly.

Early life

Jillian Rose Banks was born in Orange County, California. Banks started writing songs at the age of fifteen. She taught herself piano when she received a keyboard from a friend to help her through her parents' divorce. She says she "felt very alone and helpless. I didn't know how to express what I was feeling or who to talk to."

Career

2013–present: Breakthrough and Goddess

Banks used the audio distribution website SoundCloud to put out her music before securing a record deal. Her friend Lily Collins used her contacts to pass along her music to people in the industry; specifically Katy Perry's DJ Yung Skeeter, and she began working with the label Good Years Recordings. Her first official single, called "Before I Ever Met You" was released in February 2013. The song which had been on a private SoundCloud page ended up being played by BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. Banks released her first EP Fall Over by IAMSOUND Records and Good Years Recordings.Billboard called her a "magnetic writer with songs to obsess over." Banks released her second EP called London by Harvest Records and Good Years Recordings in 2013 to positive reviews from music critics, receiving a 78 from Metacritic. Her song "Waiting Game" from the EP was featured in the 2013 Victoria's Secret holiday commercial.

London, Ontario

London is a Canadian city located in Southwestern Ontario along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 366,151 according to the 2011 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the non-navigable Thames River, approximately halfway between Toronto, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. The City of London is a separated municipality, politically separate from Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat.

London and the Thames were named in 1793 by Lord Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest Southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest municipality, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surrounded it.

London is a regional centre of health care and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, and several hospitals. The city hosts a number of musical and artistic exhibits and festivals, which contribute to its tourism industry, but its economic activity is centred on education, medical research, insurance, and information technology. London's university and hospitals are among its top ten employers. London lies at the junction of Highway 401 and 402, connecting it to Toronto, Windsor, and Sarnia. It also has an international airport, train and bus station.

Dickens' London

Charles Dickens' works are especially associated with London which is the setting for many of his novels. These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character.

Dickens described London as a Magic lantern, a popular entertainment of the Victorian era, which projected images from slides. Of all Dickens' characters 'none played as important a role in his work as that of London itself', it fired his imagination and made him write. In a letter to John Forster, in 1846, Dickens wrote 'a day in London sets me up and starts me', but outside of the city, 'the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern is IMMENSE!!'

However, of the identifiable London locations that Dickens used in his work, scholar Clare Pettitt notes that many no longer exist, and, while 'you can track Dickens' London, and see where things were, but they aren't necessarily still there'.

In addition to his later novels and short stories, Dickens' descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836.

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Retro Soul Radio London R&B UK
Energy FM DJ Mixes Non-Stop Dance UK
RadioFish Country,Oldies,60s UK
Radio Wivenhoe Varied UK
Scanner: VHF Marine Radio Public UK
RAT Radio Varied UK
Gem 106 Varied UK
BBC York Varied UK
Skyline Gold 60s,Soft Rock,Rock,Oldies,Easy,Country,Classic Rock,80s,70s UK
BBC Hindi - Tees Minute News Updates,Indian UK
BBC Radio 1 Pop UK
Free Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire Pop,Top 40 UK
Miskin Radio Pop UK
EKR - WDJ Retro Rock,Adult Contemporary,Soft Rock UK
RollinRadio Electronica UK
Hard House UK Dance UK
My Social Radio Top 40 UK
Flight FM Electronica UK
Remarkable Radio Oldies UK
80s And More 80s UK
Sunshine Gold Oldies UK
House FM Dance,Electronica,Jungle UK
Jemm Two Indie Rock UK
Rickhits Pop UK
Dance Music 24/7 - EHM Productions 90s,Dance,Electronica UK
Hope FM 90.1 Christian Contemporary UK
Phoenix Radio Rock,Classic Rock UK
Gold FM Radio Rock,90s,80s,Adult Contemporary,Pop UK
87.7 Black Cat Radio Oldies,Pop UK
Radyo 90 Sports,Folk,Pop UK
Chester Talking Newspaper Flintshire Edition News UK
URN College UK
Sauce FM Dance UK
Anfield FM Sports UK
Sky News News UK
Citybeat 96.7FM Adult Contemporary UK
BBC Hindi - Din Bhar News Updates,Indian UK
RWSfm Varied UK
BBC Surrey Varied UK
106 Jack FM Oxfordshire Adult Contemporary UK
Bradley Stoke Radio Varied UK
Energy FM Old School Classics Dance UK
Deddington OnAir Rock,Pop UK
Summer Time Radio 90s,Dance,Electronica UK
Stomp Radio R&B UK
Stress Factor Dance,Electronica UK
Total Biker FM Rock,Punk UK
BBC Manchester Varied,News UK
BrooklynFM Rock,Classic Rock UK
FRED Film Ch9 Romanian Talk UK
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