This Week In London’s History
- Monday – 13th October 1884: At the International Meridian Conference (taking place in Washington, D.C.), Greenwich is established as the location for the ‘Prime Meridian’ – the starting point for calculating longitude and the world’s time zones.
Random London Quote Of The Week
You are now
In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Yet in its depth what treasures!
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Letter to Maria Gisborne
London’s Weather This Week
Forecasters are promising continued good weather, punctuated by a day or two of wind and rain in the middle of the week.
Picture of the Greenwich Meridian Laser shining over the Isle of Dogs taken from aSIMULAtor’s Flickr Photostream under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works licence.
