croydon airport

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Monday Miscellanea

More London-oriented anniversaries for a Monday morning.

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London’s Other Airports

12 ‘London’ airports you may or may not have heard of.

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Monday Miscellanea

Crunching the Londonist numbers, just for you… 50 metres up in the air: would you take a cable car over the Thames? 50 year old cables melted in a fire at Barking station, causing delays and closures on the Hammersmith & City and District lines …

No. 584 in the Londonist Flickr pool, by R.I.Pienaar

Monday Miscellanea

Last week in numbers on Londonist… 120 miles in the Dunwich Dynamo (+) 150 years old: Big Ben, the big bell (X) 3 places to watch the Ashes (+) 14 captions for Photo of the Day: Caption required #17 = 584, deck chairs in a …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th July 1824: On a state visit to London, King Kamehameha II of Hawaii dies of measles. Tuesday – 15th July 1966: A ‘colour bar’ at Euston Station, preventing black people from holding positions where they might come …