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More Londony trivia.

Monday anniversaries and other Londony trivia.

Which multi-award-winning actor was born in Hammersmith on this day in 1946?

Last week’s numbers magically transformed into a picture… 6 hour closure between 1am and 7am at Gatwick, Heathrow and London City due to that pesky volcano again 260 or so elephants turn up in London and only a handful of them seem to be London-themed …

Those Londonist numbers from last week and the picture those translates into… 500,000 Great British Pounds spent by Londoners who don’t know how to use their Oyster cards 31 rough sleepers found on the 25 a.k.a “sleeper” bus in just three days highlighting the plight …

Picture by Nick Holdstock via the Londonist Flickr pool. This Week In London’s History Monday – 25th May 1878: The first ever performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ takes place at the Opera Comique on The Strand. Tuesday – 26th May 1868: Michael Barrett, …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 18th February 1996: An IRA bomb explodes on a double-decker bus on Aldwych, killing the bomber and injuring eight members of the public. Tuesday – 19th February 1960: Prince Andrew is born in the Belgian Suite of Buckingham …

Violent crime is on the rise in London and you can’t pick up a paper or turn on the news without the latest report of stabbings, beatings, muggings and even murder. It’s disturbing that the Justice system, crippled by overcrowded jails and soft sentencing guidelines, …

2. London’s Phantom Hounds Phantom black dogs, or ‘hellhounds’ as folklorists like to call them, are, despite the haziness of legend, manifest the world over. Across the United Kingdom such canid apparitions have been given many names – Striker, Padfoot, Roy Dog, Guytrash, and the …