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Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England , with a population of ___MASK24___ . 38 million . It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary , and comprises five metropolitan boroughs : Knowsley , St Helens , Sefton , Wirral , and the city of Liverpool . Merseyside , which was created on ___MASK24___ April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972 , takes its name from the River Mersey . The Merseyside Development Corporation was a central government - appointed Development Corporation set up in ___MASK3___ by Margaret Thatcher ' s government to regenerate the Mersey docks of Liverpool , Bootle , Wallasey and Birkenhead . It was one of two Development Corporations to be set up in ___MASK3___ , the other being the London Docklands Development Corporation , which also focused on disused docklands . Bankside is a district of London , England , and part of the London Borough of Southwark . Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames , east of Charing Cross , running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock to the east which marks its distinct status from that of ' the Borough ' district of Southwark . It is part of a business improvement district known as Better Bankside . Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London . With its origins in the Bills of mortality , it became fixed as an area for statistics in ___MASK99___ and was used as an area of local government from 1855 to 1965 . It now has two common definitions . The first is the statutory definition delineated in the London Government Act 1963 , coming into force on ___MASK4___ , comprising twelve Inner London boroughs and almost identical to the County of London that was abolished at the same time . The second is the current definition used by the Office for National Statistics comprising eleven of the statutory Inner London boroughs and two of the statutory Outer London boroughs , and the City of London . Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool , Merseyside , England , and part of Tate , along with Tate St Ives , Cornwall , Tate Britain , London , and Tate Modern , London . The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation . Tate Liverpool was created to display work from the Tate Collection which comprises the national collection of British art from the year ___MASK76___ to the present day , and international modern art . The gallery also has a programme of temporary exhibitions . Until 2003 , Tate Liverpool was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in the UK outside London . Liverpool , in North West England , is a major city and metropolitan borough with an estimated population of 478 , 580 in ___MASK78___ within the City of Liverpool . Liverpool and its surrounding areas form the fifth largest metropolitan area in the UK , with an estimated population of over 2 . ___MASK71___ million in 2011 . The local authority is Liverpool City Council , which is the most populous local government district within the metropolitan county of Merseyside and the largest within the Liverpool City Region . Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London . It is Britain ' s national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group ( together with Tate Britain , Tate Liverpool , Tate St Ives and Tate Online ) . It is based in the former Bankside Power Station , in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark . Tate holds the national collection of British art from ___MASK20___ to the present day and international modern and contemporary art . Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives , Cornwall , England , exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area . The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town , the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden , in ___MASK98___ . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . ___MASK24___ million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . The London postal district is the area in England of to which mail addressed to the LONDON post town is delivered . The General Post Office at the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in ___MASK95___ and throughout its history has been subject to gradual periodic reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units , with the early loss of two compass points and a minor retraction in 1866 . It was integrated by the Post Office into the national postcode system of the United Kingdom during the early 1970s and corresponds to the N , NW , SW , SE , W , WC , E and EC postcode areas . The postal district has also been known as the London postal area . The County of London was much smaller at , but Greater London is much larger at . Tate Britain ( known from ___MASK1___ to ___MASK86___ as the National Gallery of British Art and from ___MASK86___ to ___MASK6___ as the Tate Gallery ) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London . It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England , with Tate Modern , Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives . It is the oldest gallery in the network , having opened in ___MASK1___ . It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times , and in particular has large holdings of the works of J . M . W . Turner , who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation . It is one of the largest museums in the country . The Art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the United Kingdom since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in ___MASK75___ . For earlier periods , and some more detailed information on the post - ___MASK75___ period , see English art , Scottish art , Welsh art and Irish art . It is part of Western art history , and during the 18th century Great Britain began once again to take the leading place England had in European art during the Middle Ages , being especially strong in portraiture and landscape art . Increasing British prosperity led to a greatly increased production of both fine art and the decorative arts , the latter often being exported . The Romantic period produced the very diverse talents of William Blake , J . M . W . Turner , John Constable and Samuel Palmer . The Victorian period saw a great diversity of art , and a far larger quantity created than before . Much Victorian art is now out of critical favour , with interest concentrated on the Pre - Raphaelites and the innovative movements at the end of the 18th century . Bankside Power Station was a former electricity generating station located on the south bank of the River Thames , in the Bankside area of the Borough of Southwark , London . It generated electricity from ___MASK21___ to 1981 . Since ___MASK6___ the building has been used to house the Tate Modern art museum and gallery . Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark . Situated east of Charing Cross , it forms one of the oldest parts of London and fronts the River Thames to the north . It historically formed an ancient borough in the county of Surrey , made up of a number of parishes , which increasingly came under the influence and jurisdiction of the City of London . As an inner district of London , Southwark experienced rapid depopulation during the late - 19th and early - 20th centuries . It is now at an advanced stage of regeneration and is the county town of Greater London which is the location of the City Hall offices of the Greater London Authority . Southwark had a population of ___MASK89___ , 119 in ___MASK91___ . Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom ' s national collection of British art , and international modern and contemporary art . It is a network of four art museums : Tate Britain , London ( until ___MASK6___ known as the Tate Gallery , founded 1897 ), Tate Liverpool ( founded 1988 ), Tate St Ives , Cornwall ( founded 1993 ) and Tate Modern , London ( founded ___MASK6___ ), with a complementary website , Tate Online ( created 1998 ). Tate is not a government institution , but its main sponsor is the Department for Culture , Media and Sport . Many historical bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark , in central London . The current crossing , which opened to traffic in ___MASK33___ , is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel . This replaced a 19th - century stone - arched bridge , which in turn superseded a ___MASK88___ - year - old medieval structure . This was preceded by a succession of timber bridges , the first built by the Roman founders of London . The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status . It occupies much of the central area of Greater London including most of the West End . It is to the west of and adjoining the ancient City of London , directly to the east of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , and its southern boundary is the River Thames . It was created with the ___MASK60___ establishment of Greater London . Upon creation , Westminster was awarded city status , which had been previously held by the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster . The London Borough of Southwark in south London , England forms part of Inner London and is connected by bridges across the River Thames to the City of London . It was created in ___MASK60___ when three smaller council areas amalgamated under the London Government Act ___MASK56___ . All districts of the area are within the London postal district . It is governed by Southwark London Borough Council . Joseph Mallord William Turner , RA ( baptised ___MASK19___ May 177519 December ___MASK83___ ) was an English Romanticist landscape painter . Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day , but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting . Philosophy ( from Greek , " philosophia ", literally " love of wisdom ") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence , knowledge , values , reason , mind , and language . The term was probably coined by Pythagoras ( c . ___MASK48___  c . 495 BC ). Philosophical methods include questioning , critical discussion , rational argument and systematic presentation . Classic philosophical questions include : Is it possible to know anything and to prove it ? What is most real ? However , philosophers might also pose more practical and concrete questions such as : Is there a best way to live ? Is it better to be just or unjust ( if one can get away with it )? Do humans have free will ? Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s , and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era . The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation . Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art . A tendency away from the narrative , which was characteristic for the traditional arts , toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art . More recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or postmodern art . The London Government Act ___MASK56___ ( c . 33 ) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , which recognised officially the conurbation known as Greater London and created a new local government structure for the capital . The Act significantly reduced the number of local government districts in the area , resulting in local authorities responsible for larger areas and populations . The upper tier of local government was reformed to cover the whole of the Greater London area and with a more strategic role ; and the split of functions between upper and lower tiers was recast . The Act classified the boroughs into inner and outer London groups . The City of London and its corporation were essentially unreformed by the legislation . Subsequent amendments to the Act have significantly amended the upper tier arrangements , with the Greater London Council constituted in the legislation replaced by the Greater London Authority . , the London boroughs are more or less identical to those created in 1965 , although with some enhanced powers over services such as waste management and education .