Londonist last week in numbers, translated into a picture…
1934 was the year Charlie Chan came to London, as discussed in the latest Londonist Film Club
206 locations mapped on our amazing Sherlock Holmes map!
9 pubs for November , recommended by our friends at Fancy A Pint
120,000 year old toe bone of lion kicks off our first illustrated Lions of London entry
100 days to become a better person via the London Word Festival
1934 + 206 X 9 + 120,000 / 100 = 1,392.6 which is rounded up to 1,393 which is the number of the whale that came into the Thames a while back, as snapped by naughton321 for the Londonist Flickr pool.
This Week In London’s History
- Monday – 23rd November 1984: A fire at Oxford Circus tube station traps almost 1000 people in smoke-filled tunnels for three hours.
- Tuesday – 24th November 1868: The new meat market at Smithfield (known as the Central Market) is opened.
London Quote Of The Week
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson
