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Guns, bombs and bridges feature in this week’s Londony anniversaries.

Night-time raids from German bombers, hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in Tube stations, the streets of London blacked out while search lights comb the skies…the familiar horrors of the Blitz. A new book by Ian Castle reveals how it all happened long before the …

Rare colour film of London at the height of the Blitz has been uncovered. The amateur footage, shot by the Mayor of Marylebone, A.E. Reneson Coucher OBE, shows the remnants of landmarks such as the John Lewis on Oxford Street and the Baker Street Bazaar. …

A fundraising themed illustration, selected by fiddling some crucial numbers… 11 Londonistas and readers are undertaking the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres 20 mile night hike 20 miles, around London, overnight. 20 miles! 920 pounds raised so far which is… 37 per cent of our target …

We crunch the numbers and illustrate them for you… 70,000 McGames Makers for the Olympics – do you want fries with that transport advice during the Games? 82,000 pounds was the actual salary of headmaster in Deptford, so calm down everybody 3 days strike scheduled …

Photo / Simon Wrigglesworth A pair of security men sparked a major operation yesterday when they left a pair of fake bombs on the back seat of their car. The twin devices, made of “artillery shell casings, mobile phones and Plasticine”, were spotted in a …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 7th September 1978: Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is stabbed in the thigh with an umbrella whilst walking across Waterloo Bridge. He soon develops a fever, is hospitalised, and dies three days later. A post-mortem reveals a metal pellet …

View London’s Worst Disasters in a larger map Like any big city, London has suffered its share of tragedy over the centuries. We all remember recent events such as the July 7 bombs and the Clapham rail crash, but many incidents, horrific at the time, …

When workers discovered a hand grenade behind a Shoreditch fire hydrant, they wisely called the authorities. Fearing more than just flesh wounds if the thing went off, bomb disposal experts spent an hour analysing the situation before realising that it was, in fact, a replica …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 26th January 1926: In Soho, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird conducts the first public demonstration of television. Tuesday – 27th January 1772: The Pantheon, an entertainment venue on Oxford Street, is opened. Wednesday – 28th January 1807: The …