Monday Miscellanea

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Horniman Tower

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@.

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