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unusual facts about the City of London



Groundscraper

Swiss bank UBS is planning the largest office building in the City of London; the design of 5 Broadgate has been labelled a groundscraper.


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Álvaro Cassuto

He has recorded many highly successful CDs for the Strauss, Portugalsom, Marco Polo and Naxos record labels, notably a series of recordings of Portuguese composers for Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony, the City of London Sinfonia, the Northern Sinfonia, the National Orchestra of Ireland, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, among others.

Barbara Stcherbatcheff

After launching a banking career in the City of London, she started writing the weekly City Girl column in the Thelondonpaper – the same slot as the hugely popular City Boy column that led to Geraint Anderson’s best-selling book of the same name.

Ben Hutton

He has commenced a new career in the City of London and also completed the term of Don Bennett as a member of the Middlesex County Cricket Club Executive Board (2011–2012).

Bridge House

Bridge House Estates, the body responsible for the bridges over the Thames bordering the City of London

Calvocoressi

Ion Calvocoressi (12 Apr 1919 – 7 Jul 2007), officer in the British Army in the Second World War, later a stockbroker in the City of London; High Sheriff of Kent in 1978-79

Cecilia Maria de Candia

In February 29, 1872, at St Pauls, Wilton Grove in the City of London UK, took place the marriage of Cecilia Maria de Candia and Sir Godfrey Robarts Pearse a "fencing champion", descendant of the Baron Robartes.

Child baronets

The Child Baronetcy, of the City of London, was created in the Baronetage of England on 4 February 1685 for the East India merchant and colonial administrator John Child.

Christopher Bowen

Other theatre credits include the title role in "Macbeth" at the Southwark Playhouse, Laertes in "Hamlet" at the Young Vic, Veit Kunz in "Franziska" at the Gate Theatre, Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the City of London Festival, Maecenas in "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Haymarket Theatre.

Convoys Wharf

The Foreign Cattle Market was taken over by the War Department in 1914, on a tenancy agreement from the City of London Corporation, for use as the Royal Army Service Corps Supply Reserve Depot.

Daniel Harvey

Daniel Whittle Harvey (1786–1863), British Radical politician, Commissioner of the City of London Police and founder of the Sunday Times

Donald McMorran

McMorran was, however, not narrow-minded in his attitude to the Modern Movement, and as assessor in the City of London's Golden Lane housing competition he awarded first place to the young Modernists, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.

EC postcode area

The postcode district includes Moorgate, Finsbury Circus and Liverpool Street and roughly covers the northeastern corner of the City of London from St Paul's Cathedral.

Edward North, 1st Baron North

He then entered one of the Inns of Court, was called to the bar, and became counsel for the City of London, probably through the influence of Alderman Wilkinson, who had married his sister Joan.

Eggesford

William Fellowes (d.1724) married in 1695 Mary Martyn, daughter and heiress of Joseph Martyn (d.1718) of St Mary-at-Hill parish in the City of London by his wife Mary.

George Lyall

George Lyall, Snr (1779-1853), British businessman, Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London 1833-1835 and 1841-1847

Greater London

Publicly funded education has been administered through 33 LEAs, which correspond to the City of London and the 32 London boroughs, since the 1990 enactment of the Education Reform Act 1988.

Ian Mobsby

In 2011 the Archdeacon and Bishop of London invited the Moot Community to move to St Mary Aldermary Church in the City to be a base for the community, and to continue its missonal work with the de-and-unchurched as part of the mixed ecology of differing churches and traditions in the City of London.

James Shaw

Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet (1764–1843), Lord Mayor of London and MP for the City of London 1806–1818

Japanese community of London

Junko Sakai, author of Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora, stated that there is no particular location for the Japanese community in London, but that the families of Japanese "company men" have a tendency of living in North London and West London.

John Fowke

He was one of the committee chosen by the City of London to confer with Charles Fleetwood, 9 December 1659.

John Poynder

He was eldest son of a tradesman in the city of London; his mother belonged to the evangelical wing of the Church of England.

Johnny Mackintosh

It is most likely both a tribute to Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis and an acknowledgement of the iconic status the Gherkin has gained as a symbol that represents the city of London.

Karena Johnson

She has programmed a succession of productions, including Dipo Agboluaje's Early Morning, a satire about Nigerian cleaners mounting a coup in the city of London.

London—Middlesex

It initially consisted of the Townships of Biddulph, London, North Dorchester, Westminster and West Nossouri (excluding the Village of Belmont) and the southeast part of the City of London.

Lord Mayor's Show

On the day after being sworn in, the Lord Mayor and several others participate in a procession from the Guildhall, via Mansion House and St Paul's Cathedral, in the heart of the City of London, to the Royal Courts of Justice on the edge of the City of Westminster, where the new Lord Mayor swears allegiance to the Crown.

Mahomet Weyonomon

As a foreigner, he was not permitted to be buried in the City of London, and he was interred in an unmarked grave in what is now Southwark Cathedral.

Manciple

The title still survives in some Oxford and Cambridge colleges, at the Charterhouse in the City of London, and in the name of Manciple Street in the borough of Southwark, London SE1.

Mary Abney

He had business interests in the City of London and was knighted by King William.

Merchant Taylors' School

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood (founded 1561), a British public school for boys, originally located in the City of London and now located in Northwood in Middlesex .

Nick Bateman

On returning to England he then worked in the City of London for ten years as a broker for the Willis Group Holdings (working at Lloyd's of London) from 1990.

North London Line City Branch

The company's main headquarters was at Bow, and from there a connection to the London and Blackwall Railway's route allowed the NLR's trains access to a terminus in the City of London, in this case Fenchurch Street.

Ralph Hammeras

He created a large-scale miniature of the city of London for the film The Sky Hawk, he also created special mechanical effects for it.

Reuben Brothers

The Reuben Brothers have 50:50 joint venture with Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts to develop a new apart-hotel under the 'art'otel' brand in Hoxton, in the City of London.

Richard Thornton Hewitt

He was made OBE in 1945 and a Freeman of the City of London in 1954, and gained further honours later in life from Middle Temple, the Swedish Medical Society, Chelsea College and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.

Robert Fabyan

Fabyan was the first London chronicler to cite his sources, which included The Brut, Bede, William of Malmesbury, Ranulf Higden, Henry of Huntingdon and numerous others, as well as records of the City of London.

Robert Noortman

Earlier in his life he already won the title of "Honorary Liveryman of the City of London" and the " Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in France.

Samuel Montagu Youth Centre

The original benefactors (who wished to remain anonymous) had been partners in the City of London banking business known as Samuel Montagu & Co., founded in 1853 by Mr. Samuel Montagu, who later took into partnership a Mr. Franklin.

Sir Samuel Garrard, 4th Baronet

His property Included estates in Exhall and Bedworth, Warwickshire; in Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire; and in the city of London; besides stock and annuities in the South Sea Company.

Spitalfields Market

Old Spitalfields Market, a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London

Swan Bells

However, since the rhyme refers to bells in the City of London and St Martins-in-the-Fields is in the City of Westminster, the line more likely refers to St Martin Orgar, near Cannon Street, which no longer exists.

The Enraged Musician

The presence of many street traders may also satirise Marcellus Laroon's much-copied 17th-century prints of The Cryes of the City of London and more recent images by Hogarth's rival, Giacomo Amiconi.

The Geo-Politics of the City

The Geo-Politics of the City (ISBN 978-0-9554975-2-0) is a 2007 collection of essays exploring the City of London's financial markets and globalisation, edited by Stephen Barber and with a foreword by Peter Jay.

Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors

The landscape painter Richard Howard Penton's drawings in Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London were re-published in 1981 to mark their grant of livery status.