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2 unusual facts about central London


Ewan Bailey

Ewan Bailey (born 1966) is an actor, writer and voice artist located in Central London, best known for writing and performing in The Sunday Format, BBC Radio 4's satire of British Sunday newspapers, Funland, BBC Three's darker than dark comedy set in the English seaside town of Blackpool, HBO's recent epic series Rome and the recent, highly acclaimed bio-pic of "Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!".

Taine Randell

Taine then left New Zealand just before the 2003 Rugby World Cup and relocated with his family to Central London.


Hertfordshire County Football Association

In the early 1880s there were already 20 clubs operating in Hertfordshire and with interest continuing to grow, the Secretary of St Albans F.C., Mr R Cook called a meeting in 1885 which was to have been held at The Football Association's Headquarters, then at 51 High Holborn in Central London but on arrival they found the offices closed.

Imperial College Halls of Residence

The halls situated in Central London have convenient access to the buzzing social life of London, close to local amenities such as Hyde Park, Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum etc.

London Tramlink

Cross River Tram is a proposed new system in Central London from King's Cross and Camden to Peckham and Brixton; however, this project is currently on hold for lack of funding.

Love on Wheels

A daily commuter on a Green Line bus from the suburbs to Central London Fred Hopkins romantically pursues a fellow passenger Jane with the help of Briggs the bus conductor.

Malet Street

Malet Street is a street in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, central London, England.

Nana Afua Antwi

Nana Afua started modelling when she was scouted at H&M in Central London mid-2009.

Thames Valley

It rarely includes either the source of the Thames at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, or any part of Wiltshire, and does not include the informal entities Central London or the Thames Gateway which surrounds the Thames Estuary.

West Cross Route

The WCR and the other roads planned in the 1960s for central London had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Sir Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council (GLC) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway-standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale.

West End of London

The West End of London (more commonly referred to as simply the West End) is an area of central London containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings, and entertainment venues (including the commercial :West End theatres).


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1927 24 Hours of Le Mans

The Autocar magazine fuelled the Bentley team's reputation by hosting a grand post-race party at the Savoy Hotel in central London, at which Old Number 7 was guest of honour.

42nd Street Shuttle

Waterloo & City lineLondon Underground's shortest line, is a shuttle running non-stop between Bank–Monument station and Waterloo station in central London.

Big Stink

The Great Stink, or the Big Stink, was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste was very strong in central London.

Bob Paisley

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1977 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews on board a coach in central London.

Business improvement district

President of Civic Voice, Griff Rhys Jones criticised the creation of a BID in central London neighbourhood saying that is undemocratic: "Neither the people who live there, nor the many intriguing small shops and businesses, have been allowed to vote or have even been consulted.".

Cannon Row Police Station

The station was responsible for policing Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, The Palace of Westminster (Parliament), No 10 Downing Street, Clarence House, St. James' Palace and was responsible for all major events and demonstrations that took place in Central London.

Carlyle's House

Carlyle's House, in the district of Chelsea, in central London, England, was the home acquired by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, after having lived at Craigenputtock in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Caxton Hall

It was also used as a central London register office until 1979, many famous people being married there including Donald Campbell (two marriages), Harrison Marks, Billy Butlin, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Roger Moore, Orson Welles, Joan Collins, Yehudi Menuhin, Adam Faith, Robin Nedwell, Barry Gibb, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Chan Kam Lee

As a result, he established a small and select class in a schoolroom in Red Lion Square, near Holborn, in Central London, teaching and practising his Chinese Taoist arts.

Coaching inn

Examples of historic sites of coaching inns in central London include the plaque on the Nomura building close to the Museum of London on London Wall commemorating the "Bull and Mouth" Inn; Golden Cross House, opposite St Martin's in the Fields recalls the Golden Cross, Charing Cross coaching inn.

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

The Foundation is based at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, a Georgian town house designed by Decimus Burton overlooking Regent's Park in central London.

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Dorothy Manley

While at the Games, she travelled to and from Wembley on the London Underground, as she was sharing a room with two other athletes near Eccleston Square in central London.

E-class lifeboat

There are currently four E class boats in use on the Thames, split between Chiswick Lifeboat Station to the west of central London, and Tower Lifeboat Station at Victoria Embankment in central London.

Edgar Jepson

Edgar Jepson died on 11 April 1938 at his home in Hampstead, a neighborhood near central London.

Emmer Green

In 1923 it was bought for the Oratory Preparatory School; then from the outbreak of the last war until 1958 it accommodated part of The Salvation Army's Headquarters as staff were evacuated from central London.

Iain Sutherland

Between 1973 and 1987 Sutherland was regularly invited by BBC Radio 2 in central London as guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra for the "Friday Night Is Music Night" programme.

International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication

It is based on York Street, between Gloucester Place and Baker Street (both part of the A41), in Marylebone in the north-west of central London.

Lists of people from Camden

Bloomsbury is an area of central London between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area.

Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street station, a major mainline railway station in Central London, England

London House

London House, a postgraduate residence and educational trust in central London

London Pneumatic Despatch Company

In 1859 Thomas Webster Rammell and Josiah Latimer Clark proposed an underground tube network in central London "for the more speedy and convenient circulation of despatches and parcels".

London Swans

They are now the only club truly based in Central London, with training and home games held at Regent's Park.

Longcross Studios

Longcross Film Studios is a film and television production facility in Longcross, Surrey, England approximately 25 miles to the west of Central London.

Marylebone High Street

The majority of the buildings in the street today date from 1900, since which point the street has been consistently revitalised by the main local landlord, Howard de Walden Estates, which has been credited with turning a "once-shabby area of central London" into an elegant street which carefully manages its "mix of boutiques and small retailers" and is frequented by the likes of Madonna, Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett.

National Car Parks

In October 1948, Ronald Hobson founded Central Car Parks, joined by his partner Sir Donald Gosling after the pair invested £200 in a bombsite in Holborn, central London to create a car park.

New Sound Radio

In addition to this, there is a small studio and production facility located elsewhere in the county, this facility will be primarily used to produce local news and weather reports, all National and International reports will however come directly from Independent Radio News in central London.

Patina

Even a lasting gold colour is possible with copper-alloy cladding, for example Colston Hall in Bristol, or the Novotel at Paddington Central, London.

Poetry Bookshop

The Poetry Bookshop operated at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in the Bloomsbury district of central London, from 1913 to 1926.

Portman baronets

Sir William Portman had acquired land in Marylebone, London, which through the later housing developments of Henry William Portman became the Portman Estate, which today is one of Central London's largest landlords and is still the basis of the wealth of the Portman family.

Roberts Radio

The company was initially based in central London, near Oxford Circus and then at Rathbone Place, but moved to East Molesey in 1941.

Ronan Harris

In the years preceding VNV Nation's debut album 'Advance and Follow', he worked for Q8 Petroleum in central London as an IT Manager and was a journalist / webmaster for dark electro magazine Side-Line.

Samuel French, Inc.

The company's London subsidiary, Samuel French Ltd., publishes stage plays for the UK market, mostly acting editions, serves as licensing agent for performance rights, and runs a theatrical bookshop on its premises at Fitzrovia in central London, England.

St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove

Some of the other churches in the British Isles (many of them British Orthodox) are in Kensington in Central London; Croydon in south London; Lapworth in Warwickshire; nearby Solihull in the West Midlands; Manchester; Newport in south Wales; Kirkcaldy in Scotland; and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

Staines to Windsor Line

From Windsor to London Waterloo takes about 55 minutes, some 20 minutes longer than the quickest journeys to London Paddington from the other station at Windsor, Windsor & Eton Central, although according to Network Rail timetables, the journey time to many central London locations is similar from both stations.

Stonebridge, London

The exclusive Craven Park Estate of large houses was built in the 1860s and later, roughly at the same time as the Midland Railway constructed the Dudding Hill Line (now a freight line), which gave its new residents access to central London.

Stratford station

Westbound Central line trains travelling towards London Liverpool Street Station and Central London open their doors on both sides, so that passengers can alight and board trains from either side, reducing dwell times and peak-hour congestion in the passageways.

The King's Way

The song was written on 27 December 1909 to celebrate the opening of London's Kingsway, a wide street in central London connecting High Holborn to the centre of the crescent south of it called Aldwych.

The Tower King

Tempest, Spencer, and their army slowly regained control over parts of central London, encountering a hospital containing medical staff who had become insane due to events and had started a cult around worship of human organs; a group called the Wreckers who drove hand-cranked diesel-powered tanks and trains; and an 'electric temple' inside a power station, within which another deranged group of people worshipped electricity, pretending it to still exist.

Treadwell's Bookshop

Treadwell's Bookshop is an esoteric bookshop in Bloomsbury, central London.

Verulam House, St Albans

It became a maternity hospital and a facility for training pupil midwives by the General Lying-In Hospital which had been evacuated from York Road, Lambeth, (Waterloo), in central London.

Woburn Place

Woburn Place is a street in central London, England, named after Woburn Abbey.