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Monday Miscellanea

More London-oriented anniversaries for a Monday morning.

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Monday Miscellanea

Last week’s key numbers on Londonist collated and compiled into a pretty picture… 40 lamp posts tell Southwark’s history 21 pianos to be dotted around London, to be played by the public as they wish 1 pound daily charge for motorbikes in Westminster prove deeply …

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From The Hunterian: Phossy Jaw

In the second of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Hunterian Museum. This item from the Hunterian collection is a human mandible showing ‘phossy jaw‘, a necrosis of the bone …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 30th June 1894: Tower Bridge is opened by the Prince of Wales. It would become an iconic symbol of London, and arguably the most well-recognised ‘bascule bridge’ in the world (even if tourists do sometime mistake it for …