10 free stories for Christmas from the spine-tingling team behind One Eye Grey
14.5 Great British Pounds for a really unbelievably indulgent sandwich, earnestly researched by Sandwichist
5,000 people fed for considerably less cost than the above sandwich in Trafalgar Square
1 article we wrote about the snow – more to come, both snow and articles about snow
12 noon when the ice was broken at Brockwell Lido and one of our extremely special correspondents took an icy dip
10 + 14.5 + 5,000 + 1 + 12 = 5,037.5 which is filth of Great Portland Street tube station, as captured by beatdrifter in the Londonist Flickr pool. Grubby but we like it.
This Week In London’s History
- Monday – 21st December 1842: Pentonville Prison near Islington accepts its first prisoners.



