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100 unusual facts about London


ACF2

Barry Schrager, Eberhard Klemens, and Scott Krueger combined to develop ACF2 at London Life Insurance in London, Ontario in 1978.

Ahl Al Esheg

the video is in black and white, it was directed in London and shows all the British people walking reverse while Diana Haddad is walking in the right way and singing.

Alan Garrett Anderson

Once established in the shipping industry, Anderson expanded into the related field of rail transport, becoming director of Midland Railway in 1911, a seat he maintained through the merger of that railway in 1923 into London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Alexander Hurley

He went from working in London's docks as a tea packer to boxing in fairground booths, before moving on to the music hall as a coster singer with the song The Strongest Man In The World.

Alfred Cope

Cope was raised in Lambeth (Waterloo), London, the eldest of eleven children born to Alfred and Margaret.

Alloclita brachygrapta

The species was described on the basis of two males in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London.

Ann Baynard

Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - June 12, 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.

Archdeacon of Hampstead

The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London.

Art Strike 1990–1993

"Art Strike Action Committees", often run by single activists, existed in London, Ireland, Baltimore, Albany/NY, San Francisco, Montevideo, and Uruguay.

Arthur Llewellyn Basham

As a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous Indian historians, including Professors R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar and V.S.Pathak

Arthur Powell Davies

In London, he met George Bernard Shaw, who urged him to go into politics; instead, he chose to attend Richmond Theological College, a Methodist seminary affiliated with the University of London, and to join the Methodist ministry.

Associated London Scripts

Around 1960 ALS sold the Kensington offices and purchased even more prestigious premises at 9 Orme Court in Bayswater Road, adjacent to Hyde Park.

Balham station

From the outset the line was worked by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, which purchased the line in 1859 after it had been extended to Battersea Wharf.

Beechholme

It was founded in 1879 as a Residential School for poor children from the slums of Kensington and Chelsea and run under a Village system.

Benjamin Heyne

He did a great deal of collecting at Coimbatore and Bangalore and compiled a large collection of plant specimens which were forwarded to London.

Bolton and Leigh Railway

Sans Pareil was used on the railway until 1844, when it was sold to the Coppull Colliery, Chorley and used as a stationary engine until 1863 when it was presented to the Science Museum by John Hick.

Brain Research Trust

Since its founding in 1971, the Trust has funded research totalling more than £30 million at University College London's Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London.

Brunei Investment Agency

Brunei investors bought The Dorchester on Park Lane in London in 1985 for US$50 million and in 1996 BIA formed the Dorchester Collection, a conglomerate of luxury hotels in UK, USA, France and Italy which includes it.

Charbagh

A charbagh garden is located on the roof top of the Ismaili Centre in South Kensington, London.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

Charles Douglas Moffatt (London, 5 July 1870 - Buenos Aires, 1 March 1953) was an English football player, considered one of the pioneers of the sport in Argentina.

Charles Peart

Peart continued to work for Wedgwood, and also carved a marble chimneypiece for the Marquess of Buckingham's London residence in Pall Mall

Chelsea Old Church

The Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge.

Chelsea, Oklahoma

Chelsea was named after the area in London, England, by Charles Peach, a railroad official who was a native of that city.

CKGB-FM

The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of The Times of London.

Claude Morley

Claude Morley (22 June 1874 Astley Bank, Blackheath-13 November, 1951 Monk Soham House, Monk Soham Woodbridge, Suffolk) was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.

Constantines

From their hometown of Guelph the band relocated to London, Ontario and then to Toronto, where in 2001 they released their self-titled first album.

Consumerism

Marketplaces expanded as shopping centres, such as the New Exchange, opened in 1609 by Robert Cecil in the Strand.

Coup de glotte

A very resounding condemnation of the coup de glotte as a singing technique was given by Victor Maurel, in a public lecture at the Lyceum Theatre in July 1892.

Crocheron-McDowall House

The two married four years later and eventually settled in London.

Dalby's Carminative

Dalby's Carminative was a medicinal product formula originally made by James Dalby of London, England, in the late 1770s.

Dark on Fire

The album was recorded in two different studios in London in early 2007.

Debbie Arnold

Other West End appearances include "Hollywood Babylon", Woman Behind Bars, Four in a Million and Last of the Red Hot Lovers at Strand.

Denis Rose

Denis Rose (May 31, 1922, London - November 22, 1984, London) was an English jazz pianist and trumpeter.

Double Chess

J. R. Capablanca, who had experimented with different forms of chess in the 1920s, found the game "remarkably interesting", and a four-game match was held with G. Maróczy on 22–26 April 1929 at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

Epilepsy Society

The Epilepsy Society has close partnerships with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and the UCL Institute of Neurology, both located in Queen Square, London.

EuNetworks

Their headquarters are in London, and they are publicly listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Expansion of Amsterdam since the 19th century

This part of Amsterdam would become a neighborhood with the grandeur of Paris or London of that time.

Fort Amiel Museum

Major Charles Frederick Amiel was born on 2 August 1822, in Hanover Square, London, England.

Frankland-Payne-Gallwey baronets

The following year he became a director of the British Bloodstock Agency plc, in London's Pall Mall, retiring in 1997.

Garavi Gujarat

It claims to have been established in 1968, and is currently published in London by The Asian Media & Marketing Group.

George Paloczi-Horvath

Paloczi-Horvath settled in Richmond, London with his family, and earned his living as a freelance writer and journalist.

Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney

In 1497 the king had prepared an army to invade Scotland to punish James IV for his support of Perkin Warbeck, and had given the command to Daubeney; but he has hardly marched when he was recalled ito put down the Cornish rebels, who came to Blackheath unmolested, and was criticised by the king.

Gordon Tait

Gordon Thomas Tait (12 March 1912 – 3 October 1999) was a British architect, active in London.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Greenwich Associates

Based in Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, and Singapore, the firm's clients include 250 global financial service companies.

Heinrich Egersdörfer

Heinrich "Heiner" Egersdörfer (1853 Nuremberg, Germany - 29 April 1915 St. Pancras, London), was a German-born artist, illustrator and cartoonist who settled in South Africa.

Helen Worth

At the age of twelve she played one of the von Trapp children in a stage production of The Sound of Music, at the Palace Theatre in London, a role that kept her in London for nine months.

Hendrik Brouwer

Early in 1632, he was part of a delegation sent to London to solve trade disagreements between the English and Dutch East India companies.

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

There are four temporary exhibition spaces, and the temporary exhibition programme includes exhibition from national and international galleries such as The British Museum, V&A, Southbank Centre and Natural History Museum.

Hilda Montalba

The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, with four daughters, all artists.

Horley

In 1602 it became the property of Christ's Hospital in London and the original map of the manor is now held at the Guildhall in the City of London.

Hugo Biermann

Two years later he attended the British Naval Staff Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and was appointed as naval attaché at South African House, London with the rank of Commander.

InnoPath Software

innoPath is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with international offices worldwide, including Nacka, Sweden; Beijing, China; Richmond, London, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea.

Ivan Vedar

He studied in a college in Malta, where he picked up many languages, he worked as a sailor on an English ship, travelling between London and Melbourne, he was an interpreter in Turkish institutions in Tsarigrad, he taught languages in İzmir to the sons of Turkish notables (including Midhat Pasha).

Jack Reagan

O'Regan worked as a tenant farmer during his early years in Ireland, before he moved to London in 1852.

James Bainham

According to Foxe, More imprisoned and flogged him in his house at Chelsea, and then sent him to the Tower of London to be racked, in the hope of discovering other heretics by his confession; this is doubted by later authors.

Jennifer Hedger

A native of London, Ontario, Hedger grew up in Lambeth and Westminster, Ontario and later graduated from the University of Western Ontario.

Jewel House

Although a treasury had been found in the Tower of London from the earliest times (as in the sub-crypt of St. John's Chapel in the White Tower), from 1255 there was a separate Jewel House for state crowns and regalia, though not older crowns and regalia, which remained at Westminster Abbey.

John Burns Hynd

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925.

José Toribio Merino

Between 1955 and 1957 he served as aide and counsel in weaponry to the Chilean embassy in London.

Junior Carlton Club

From 1869, the club was housed in sumptuous premises at 30 Pall Mall designed by David Brandon, which it occupied well into the twentieth century.

Kinross and West Perthshire by-election, 1963

A last-minute candidate appeared in the shape of Richard Wort, a schoolmaster from Wimbledon who stood as an Independent right-wing candidate; his nomination paper was handed in with 29 minutes to spare.

La Femme Piège

At the same time in London, Jill is working on an article about the Afro-Pakistian and Zuben'Ubisch minority conflicts in the suburbs of Chelsea.

Laas, South Tyrol

Laas is known for the pure white marble quarried in the mountains south of the village which has been used in buildings world-wide, including the Victoria Memorial, London.

London's Air Ambulance

From its base at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, the helicopter can reach any patient inside the M25 London orbital road, which acts as the service's catchment area, within 15 minutes.

Maria Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

She married, James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, eldest son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russel on 7 January 1869 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England.

Mary Meade

In 1949, she married Ted Grouya in Paris and embarked on a European career that included stints in the lavish production Gay Paris at the Casino de Paris, and at the Pigalle Club in London.

Max Sørensen

During his tenure there, he worked as Attaché Embassy in Bern and in 1944 as Secretary of Legation in London.

Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

The 1850s saw the arrival of some 300 Jewish families from London and the Province of Posen, Prussia to Melbourne, prompting the construction of a new larger synagogue on the Bourke Street site.

Merton Abbey

Merton Abbey, London, the residential area in southwest London on the site of the former priory

MK Electric

By 1923 demand for these new products was growing rapidly and new production facilities were built in Edmonton, London.

Mona Brand

During the five and a half years she was in the UK (1948–1953) Brand was active in London's Unity Theatre which shared common views with the New Theatre in Australia.

New York–Addis–London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965–1975

The album covers his early recordings in the UK in 1965, his work on the Worthy label in New York and his recording in Addis on Amha, Phillips and Axum in the 1970s.

Osman Türkay

After completing his studies at a private school in Kyrenia, Türkay went to London where he read philosophy and studied journalism, after which he was employed on the staff of several magazines and newspapers.

Peter Thomas Dunican

As senior partner at Arup, Dunican is credited with overseeing much of its growth from a single office in London in 1946 to a firm of over 7000 staff now.

Ralph Tubbs

Well known amongst the buildings he designed was the Dome of Discovery at the successful Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London in 1951.

Richard Farmer

When in London he usually resided at the house of Dr. Anthony Askew, the eminent physician, in Queen Square, Bloomsbury.

Rob McConnell

McConnell was born in London, Ontario and took up the valve trombone in high school, and began his performing career in the early 1950s, performing and studying with Don Thompson, Bobby Gimby, and later, with fellow Canadian Maynard Ferguson.

Rose Mead

She left there to study at the Westminster School of Art, London in 1892, under the tutorship of Frederick Brown just prior to his appointment as Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The judicial branch of government is divided into district courts, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and the Privy Council in London being the court of last resort.

Samuel Rowland Fisher

Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London.

Scala Browne Agency

Born in London in 1940, Mim Scala went to school at St Augustins, Hammersmith and Chelsea Art School at Manresa Rd, Chelsea.

Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator

The album was released in 1991 and recorded live in London and Kitchener (misspelled in the liner notes at "Kitchner") Ontario, Canada, in October 1990.

Skënder Rizaj

He has done extensive research in Turkish Archives in Istanbul, and the British Library in London.

Skopos market insight

SKOPOS Market Insight is a global market research agency and communications research company with offices based in London, Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Johannesburg and Sydney.

Slapp Happy

In June 1974, there were plans for a joint appearance by Slapp Happy and Virgin label mates Henry Cow and Robert Wyatt at a free concert in Hyde Park in London, but this was cancelled at the last minute.

Susanne van Soldt Manuscript

The Susanne van Soldt Manuscript is a keyboard anthology dated 1599 consisting of 33 pieces copied by or for a young Flemish or Dutch girl living in London.

Table entertainment

Perhaps the master of the table entertainment was Charles Mathews, who began his show At Home or Mathews at Home, in London's Lyceum Theatre in 1808.

The Bentley London

It is located at 27-33 Harrington Gardens in south Kensington, lying between Cromwell Road to the north and Brompton Road to the south in close proximity to some of London's major museums including the Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and other sites of note such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sloane Square and the Royal Court Theatre, and the boutiques of Knightsbridge such as Harrods and Harvey Nichols.

The Jive Aces

The band also performed as part of the Jubilee celebration in Hyde Park, featuring alongside other BGT acts.

The Lambs

In 1868, The Lambs was founded in London by actors, led by John Hare, the first Shepherd, looking to socialize with like-minded people.

The Military Philosophers

Jenkins is living in a flat in Chelsea in early 1943 and is promoted in his liaison duties to supervising the Belgians and Czechs.

The Vise

Produced in London and hosted by Australian actor Ron Randell, the suspense series depicted people unwittingly trapped in "the vise" of fate due to their own actions, usually of a criminal nature.

Thomas L. Cleave

Between 1922-27, he attended medical schools at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and St Mary's Hospital, London, London, achieving MRCS and LRCP.

Travelling Riverside Blues

English rock band Led Zeppelin's version of this song was recorded at the BBC studios in Aeolian Hall on June 24, 1969, by engineer John Waters, which took place during the band's UK Tour of Summer 1969.

University Club of Chicago

The club's centerpiece, Cathedral Hall, was based by Roche on Crosby Hall in London.

Violet Vanbrugh

Back in England in 1891, she joined Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum Theatre as Anne Boleyn in his successful revival of King Henry VIII.

Wildsurf

Ash said of the video: "Howard took us to the Natural History Museum in London. There we shot performance against giant video screens and metallic globes. We also headed to East London for more performance shots in the Docklands area. The video follows a sci-fi looking chick obsessed with water. She has some kinda weird aqua car and then ends up surfing a tsunami which destroys the city. The final special effect shot is so tacky and crap it's laughable!"

Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Its seat is the Merchant Taylors' Hall between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill, a site it has occupied since at least 1347.


Addington Palace

Mr Trecothick had been raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and became a merchant there; he then moved to London still trading as a merchant, and later became Lord Mayor and then an MP.

Alan Kreider

As a public speaker, Alan Kreider has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983).

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

He worked as a freelance translator, as the London correspondent of a Dutch newspaper, and as the editor of the papers Dramatic Opinions and The Candid Friend, and, in collaboration with Leonard Smithers, in publishing.

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea

his earliest memory was that he was an orphan from Bermondsey, in London, and that, at the age of five, in 1947, he was transported to Australia to find a new home.

Artur Gadowski

On October 15 he was guest on a TV show Weekend z Gwiazdą (Weekend with the Star) which was, by way of an exception, broadcast from the Stansted airport near London, UK.

Bailey's Hotel

Millennium Bailey's Hotel, London -historic hotel in London established in 1876.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Bootham Crescent

The ground is located just over a mile away from York railway station, which lies on the East Coast Main Line between London's King's Cross station and Edinburgh's Waverley Station.

British Coachways

Excelsior Coaches brought with it a service from London to Bournemouth and Poole.

Chubby Oates

Born in Bermondsey South London Oates started out as a reporter for the South London Observer, he shared an office with future editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie.

CLÀR

, a collection of short stories by Duncan Gillies (Donnchadh MacGillIosa) from London via Ness on the Island of Lewis was shortlisted for the main award 2013 Book of the Year.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Dandy horse

George Arliss, as the title character of the 1929 film Disraeli, rides a dandy-horse through a London park until he collides with a woman pedestrian.

Deerstalker

In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.

DR Congo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

On the day after the closing ceremonies, four members from the national delegation were reported missing in London: judoka Cédric Mandembo and his coach Ibula Masengo, boxing coach Blaise Bekwa, and athletics coach Guy Nkita.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

Elaine Dundy

As part of her research for the Presley book, Dundy moved from her luxurious suites in London and New York to live for five months in Presley's birthplace of Tupelo, Mississippi.

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

European Network for Training Economic Research

From March 1, 2011 Richard Blundell (UCL, London), Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm) and Jean Tirole (Université de Toulouse I) agreed to form the new scientific committee at ENTER.

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

Friedrich von Hermann

Warmly supporting the customs union (Zollverein), he acted in 1851 as one of its commissioners at the great industrial exhibition at London, and published an elaborate report on the woollen goods.

George Tyndale

He recorded with Caribbean singers and appeared extensively at nightclubs, in particular with Joe Appleton's band and for a period as a leader at the Sunset, a rendezvous popular with London's black population.

Girdle of Thomas

There were a number of supposed original girdle relics across the ancient Christian world, partly conflated with "tertiary" relics of belts that had touched the supposed genuine belt - Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England, bought one of these from a friar to help her pregnancy, and there was an "original" at Westminster Abbey in London.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

Guy A. Sautter

John Arlott (Hrsg.): The Oxford companion to sports & games. Oxford University Press, London 1975

Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.

Jessops

The relaunch of the Oxford Street store in London received considerable media interest and was attended by celebrities including the actor James Corden.

Jimmy Toner

He was seriously injured in a coach crash on the M25 motorway near London on 4 January 2007 in which his wife Christine was killed.

John Strange Winter

In 1896, the health of her husband and of her youngest daughter made residence at the seaside imperative, and Dieppe became her home until 1901, when she returned to London, retaining a house at Dieppe for summer residence until 1909.

Jooho Kim

Jooho holds MA degree in Linguistics (1984) from the Korea University and Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration (1991) from the City University London.

Judith Keppel

Keppel's father was a Lieutenant Commander in the Fleet Air Arm, who moved with the family to various naval postings around Britain until they settled in London when she was 17.

Kensington College of Business

KCB courses validated by the University of London include LLB studies.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

London Figaro

Writing in Journalistic London later in the year, Joseph Hatton, said,

Lust's Dominion

If Lust's Dominion is The Spanish Moor's Tragedy by another name, it may have been influenced by the August 1600 arrival in London of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, Ambassador of Muley Ahmad al-Mansur, King of Barbary or Morocco.

Margaret Catchpole

Rev. Richard Cobbold (son of her former employers) made Catchpole the subject of a novel, The History of Margaret Catchpole (London, 1845), which has often been reprinted.

Millimeter wave scanner

Claims that images are immediately destroyed were questioned after Indian film star Shahrukh Khan said that his image was circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

Miranda Chartrand and Adam Nichols

On November 4, Chartrand and Nichols performed "I've Got Nothing" at a gig at 93 Feet East in London, which was headlined by former pop star Chesney Hawkes.

Mollie's Song

CD 2 included the b-side only track "Call Me", and both CD1 and CD2 included as a b-side the traditional lullaby Hush Little Baby, which was recorded for an episode of the BBC TV programme Challenge Anneka, aired September 23, 1992, in which Anneka Rice organized the release of an album (titled Tommy's Tape), whose royalties would be donated to Tommy's Campaign, for research into premature births at the Children's Intensive Care Unit in St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, a wealthy London merchant and member of the British East India Company, in 1643.

Sylvinho

In 1999 he became the first ever Brazilian player to sign for English club Arsenal, who he signed for ahead of North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur who made numerous offers for the Brazilian.

Tharros

Most of the artifacts can be found in the Archaeological Museum at Cagliari, in the Antiquarium Arborense, the Archaeological Museum of the town of Cabras and in the British Museum, London.

The Jeff Beck Group

The first Jeff Beck Group formed in London in early 1967 and included guitarist Jeff Beck, vocalist Rod Stewart, rhythm guitarist Ronnie Wood, with bass players and drummers changing regularly.

Thomas Pakington

Thomas Pakington was the son of Robert Pakington a London mercer and an M.P. for the City in 1534, who was murdered in London in 1537.

VH1 Europe

Though produced in Warsaw (Poland), VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, covering also the Middle East, South Africa and parts of Northern Africa.