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London’s Top Dogs

A pack of memorable woofsters.

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Monday Miscellanea

More trivia for a Monday morning.

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Londonist Out Loud: Inside St Sepulchre’s Church With Mike Paterson

This audio has expired. For episode pictures and other Londonist Out Loud material please see here. The ways in which London’s history can be accessed are as varied and disparate as the many aspects of the capital’s past. N Quentin Woolf talks to Mike Paterson, …

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Monday Miscellanea

Last week on Londonist, in numbers and corresponding pictures… 32 days that the Kingsway Tram Subway will be open for Chord, an art installation: book now! 24 hours to write a book – did you help out? 40,000 ring-necked parakeets now available for shooting 17 …

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The Saturday Strangeness

Photo by lazzarello on Flickr 104. An Account Of A Horrifying Apparition The old Newgate Prison harbours one of London’s most terrifying apparitions, that of an evil black hound. Legend dates back to the reign of Henry III, during a period of extreme famine, where …