Monday Miscellanea

Londonist last week, in numbers then lovingly translated into a picture... just for you...

300 (and more) people evacuated in Peckham when an enormous fire broke out in the Carisbrooke Gardens area.

54 years after opening as the first terminal building at Heathrow, Terminal 2 closes for upgrading

2,000 people (nearly) have signed the petition to save the Met's Human Trafficking Unit

2 o'clock in the afternoon: the only time in the day that The Evening Standard hits the streets, as the midday edition is dropped (from January)

112 mph is the record speed of steam train Sir Nigel Gresley which made an appearance at Kings Cross this weekend

300 X 54 + 2,000 X 2 - 112 = 36,288 which is apparently the number of Edmund Martin, tripe dressers and offal salesmen as snapped by Darlo in the Londonist Flickr pool. Mmm. Tripe.

This Week In London’s History

• Monday - 30th November 1936: The magnificent iron and glass Crystal Palace in southeast London is destroyed by fire.
  
• Tuesday - 1st December 1919: In Westminster, Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons.
  
• Wednesday - 2nd December 1697: The first service is held in Sir Christopher Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral, some eleven years before the building is officially completed.
  
• Thursday - 3rd December 1952: Mel Smith is born in Chiswick. He would become a popular comedian in the 80s.
  
• Friday - 4th December 1882: The Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand are opened by Queen Victoria.

London Quote Of The Week

London is the epitome of our times and the Rome of today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits