Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History

Monday – 22th December 1974: A bomb explodes at the Victoria home of Conservative leader and former Prime Minister Edward Heath. No-one is hurt.

Tuesday – 23rd December 1690: At Greenwich Royal Observatory, astronomer John Flamsteed catalogues what he believes to be a star as ‘34 Tauri’. It would later transpire that this is the first recorded sighting of the planet Uranus. Wednesday – 24th December 1890: Surrey House Museum (later to become known as the Horniman Museum) in Forest Hill is officially opened to the public. Thursday – 25th December 1066: William the Conqueror is crowned king at Westminster Abbey. Friday – 26th December 1913: Golders Green Hippodrome is opened as a 3000-seat music hall.

Random London Quote Of The Week

This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

William Butler Yeats

London’s Weather This Week

Forecasters seem to think that temperatures will dip as the week progresses, but there’s still not much chance of a white Christmas in London.

Photo by M@.