Monday Miscellanea
More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.
More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.
There was a lot of walking this weekend in London… 10 people walked 20 miles in 8.5 hours and raised £2,106.00 for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres on Friday night. And on Saturday and Sunday, over 700 buildings opened up to the public for Open House …
What have George Handel, William Morris, Sigmund Freud, Samuel Johnson and Benjamin Franklin all got in common? That’s right. Not one of them owned an iPhone. By a spooky coincidence, they also have small museums devoted to them in London. A new site, London Shh, …
Last week’s Londonist numbers and the corresponding picture that might be a Da Vinci Code-style clue to something: 5 shortlisted designs for the defunct gas holder in Kings Cross, of which the playground appeals to us the most 43 marathons completed in 52 days by …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 22nd September 1955: A new television channel, ITV, launches at a ceremony at the Guildhall. Its broadcasting initially only covers the London area, but would be spread to the other UK regions over the next seven years. Tuesday …