concorde

More London-oriented trivia for a Monday morning.

More London-oriented trivia for a Monday morning.

More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.

It’s been eight years since Concorde’s final passenger flight landed at Heathrow. This, and other Londony anniversaries.

Could an explosion in East London really have damaged the Savoy Hotel?

A decommissioned Concorde jet currently languishing at Heathrow airport could get an unlikely lease of life, as a new tourist attraction on the Thames. A £22 million plan would see the superannuated, supersonic aircraft transported onto a double-decker floating pontoon near to the London Eye. …

Last week in Londonist, in numbers and the photo those numbers mysteriously translate into… 300 pounds per week (or near enough) to live in new student accommodation in Nido Spitalfields 100 contestable reasons why Boris Johnson is the bestest ever Mayor, ever 920 steps to …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 19th January 1917: A fire breaks out at a munitions factory in Silvertown, East London, igniting some 50 tonnes of TNT. The resulting explosion kills 73 people, injures some 400 more, and damages as many as 70,000 buildings …

Time was that travellers driving to Heathrow were greeted with the sleekly moulded contours of a model Concorde as they drove past the airport’s entrance roundabout, a sight rich with the promise of airborne dreams and the supersonic age. Sadly the 2000 crash-landing and post-9/11 …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 21st January 1976: Concorde’s first commercial service, from London to Bahrain (and Paris to Rio de Janeiro) commences. Tuesday – 22nd January 1876: The Royal Aquarium opens in Westminster. It would be demolished just 26 years later and …