If you love London, then this is your book, mate. Within these pages are hundreds of facts, figures, stories, quotes, jokes, and anecdotes—from its earliest times, when hippos swam the Thames and elephants lived in Trafalgar Square, right up to the present day. Find out whose head fell off London Bridge into his daughter’s lap, what goes on at the Horseshoe and Faggott Cutting Ceremony, who sold Buckingham Palace to a tourist, which Londoner embalmed his wife and displayed her in a glass case in his living room, and how many policeman you can fit in Nelson’s Column.
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Ever wonder what happens to the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IV’s coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? The delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable volumes in the Companion Series are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.
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The editor, Jo Swinnerton, is a writer who has lived in London for 16 years, and has lived or worked in virtually every part of the city at some point - which has been the perfect
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Fans of "Schott's Original Miscellany" will relish this book, which contains a host of trivia about London in a similar format to that original. Do you want to know which pubs are haunted? The original names and dates of establishment of various tube stations? Where Marx and Gandhi lived while in town? What are the most unusual items ever left behind on a bus or subway? (The list includes a vasectomy kit and two human skulls.) Then this is the book for you. It may be crass and perhaps even un-British to say so, but its wit and brevity make it perfect for your loo bookshelf, if you see what I mean.
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The cleaning up of the Thames in the latter years of the 1900s has made the metropolitan waterway more appealing to certain fish and mammals who would normally keep their distance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charing Cross, Trafalgar Square, British Museum, Covent Garden, Division One, Tower of London, Houses of Parliament, Charles Dickens, Sir John, New York, Greater London, British Library, Lord Mayor, Buckingham Palace, Royal Academy, Virginia Woolf, Canary Wharf, Cannon Street, District Line, Great Fire of London, Hyde Park, Nelson's Column, Pall Mall, Sadler's Wells, Samuel Pepys New!
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The cleaning up of the Thames in the latter years of the 1900s has made the metropolitan waterway more appealing to certain fish and mammals who would normally keep their distance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charing Cross, Trafalgar Square, British Museum, Covent Garden, Division One, Tower of London, Houses of Parliament, Charles Dickens, Sir John, New York, Greater London, British Library, Lord Mayor, Buckingham Palace, Royal Academy, Virginia Woolf, Canary Wharf, Cannon Street, District Line, Great Fire of London, Hyde Park, Nelson's Column, Pall Mall, Sadler's Wells, Samuel Pepys New!
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- Scotland Yard by Harold Scott on page 35, and page 92
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 50, and page 134
- Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 50, and page 73
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- The History of Britain Companion: Fascinating Folklore, Mysterious Histories, & Britannic Brilliance (A Think Book) by Jo Swinnerton in Front Matter
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- The Literary Companion (A Think Book) by Emma Jones in Front Matter
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