Your Sunday morning best of Londonist weekly round-up, this week sponsored by Velocity.
Must-read articles
- The Great Fire of 1666 was bad, but it wasn't the only fire to rip through London.
- The Clink Prison Museum: historical artefact or fairground sideshow?
- These weird-sounding restaurant dishes really, really shouldn't work. But they do.
- We track down parts of the medieval London Bridge in Essex, Kent and Scotland.
- Bikes, biscuits and ballet shoes: surprising things that London still makes.
- Fancy tucking into a dish of Monkey Fingers or munching a Deep Throater?
- A map of London's erogenous zones.
- Could the plague strike London again?
- Is Brighton really 'London-on-sea'?
Did you know...?
- ...about the 'Nazi' dog buried in London?
- ...about the south London park which used to have a zoo?
- ...about the prison room inside the tower of Big Ben (yeah, we know, Big Ben is the bell)?
- ...how Brick Lane got its name?
- ...there's a London postcode that's not actually in London? Let us explain.
- ...about the white chapel that gave Whitechapel its name?
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London news
- A new Harry Potter exhibition is coming to the British Library...but you'll have to wait until next year.
- If you use Holborn station regularly, you'll need to know about this.
- A unique City of London pub is under threat from developers.
- The National Maritime Museum is getting four new galleries.
- Real-time traffic updates are being trialled on the back of some buses.
- Travel on South West Trains? You could soon be travelling on one of these.
Things to do
- Eat Michelin star food...then pay what you like for it.
- Liven up your next trip to Euston Road by visiting the area's hidden art gallery.
- Here's how to make your next trip to the British Museum a bit more interesting.
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