Monday Miscellanea

Last week on Londonist, in numbers then translated into a visual pictogram:

125 metres from South Quay DLR station where a new South Quay DLR station has been built

3 years (or nearly) lifespan of London Lite, now to disappear from the streets just like The London Paper

1.2 million tonnes of London CO2 emissions could be reduced by a certain rubbish idea

35 years old: happy birthday Hello Kitty! She's from London, but you knew that, didn't you?

2.8 miles on the Londonist Weekend Walk #1: Regent's Canal, Paddington to Camden

(125 + 3) x (1.2 + 35 + 2.8) = 4,992 in the Londonist Flickr pool, which is the top right hand corner of the Gates of Hell, as snapped by Zefrog

This Week In London’s History

Monday - 2nd November 1785: London coachbuilder Lionel Lakin patents the first ‘unsinkable lifeboat’.

Tuesday - 3rd November 1783: John Austin, a highwayman, becomes the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows. Wednesday - 4th November 1871: Queen Victoria Street, providing a new route from the Bank of England to the Houses of Parliament (via Victoria Embankment), is opened. Thursday - 5th November 1605: Following a tip-off, a party of armed men led by a Justice of the Peace discover Guy Fawkes guarding a large amount of gunpowder and incendiary materials in the vaults under the House of Lords. Friday - 6th November 1869: Queen Victoria opens Blackfriars Bridge, and then Holborn Viaduct.

London Quote Of The Week

Pitt is to Addington what London is to Paddington.

George Canning, The Oracle.