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Add any facts you know about London without googling.
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London, England’s capital
Add any facts you know about London without googling.
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London, England’s capital
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2. Full of homosexual men
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3. Started life as Londinium.
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1 in 4 of the population indigenous English
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Teddington lock marks the end of the tidal reach of the Thames.
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Good writer, crap boxer.
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Part of Newham.
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If you stood outside of Primark in Oxford Street for an hour, you would die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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home to Newham.
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Finest Meat (Smithfield Market) , Fish,(Billingsgate) Fresh fruit,vegetable & flower market ( new covent garden) in the land
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The guns of HMS Belfast, which is moored near Tower Bridge and well worth a visit, are targeted on Scratchwood Services on the M1.
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The oldest parts of the Tower of London were build from blocks of limestone imported from quarries in Caen, Normandy by William the Conqueror. It made him feel more at home.
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Visitors to the Palace of Westminster are not allowed to sit on the leather covered benches in either debating chamber.
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People look at you like you are a serial killer if you are polite on the tube and you need to threaten to fill somebody in if you stand up to let a pregnant woman sit down because some scroat will jump in the seat like a tramp on a bag of chips.
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Eeternaloptimist does happen to look like the Yorkshire Ripper though.
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It's my manor.
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Best Fish and Chip shop(Restaurant) in the UK...Masters(Superfish)5 mins walk from Waterloo Station.
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Has now become Londonistan.
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Hell on earth. Civilisation gone mad.
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Finest city in the world.
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Has only ONE Greyhound stadium left and that will probably be gone in a year or two.
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london is ok for tourists and when you go visit other cities you realize quite quickly what a poor place it is to live in
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People look at you like you are a serial killer if you are polite on the tube and you need to threaten to fill somebody in if you stand up to let a pregnant woman sit down because some scroat will jump in the seat like a tramp on a bag of chips.
Lazy cliche. The people in London are as friendly as anywhere in the UK, lots come from all over the UK. They are the same people in London as they are when they go home to the part of the Uk they came from. Cram people on to the underground anywhere in the world and you'll find they behave in a similar manner. |
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I got a CSE in London Studies ...think it was the only time it was done ..1976-1977
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Give us some facts then... or have you forgotten it all?
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Forgotten what ?
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The 'City' of London once had a wall built around it that had 7 gates; Bishopsgate, Ludgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate, Aldersgate and Newgate. The idea behind the wall was to keep the King out (if memory serves) and to enter the 'City' the king had to ask permission from the mayor. If it was granted a key would be issued so the king could enter. If I am not mistaken this tradition still holds today (at Ludgate?) where the queen needs to seek permission to enter. I have not researched this for many a year but if I am wrong I will stand corrected but I think I am close to the mark. For the record, some of that wall still stands today.
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London Wall is a road iirc, think I used to walk along it to work back in the day. Perhaps that was it.
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Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayoral candidate, grew up on a council estate and is the son of a bus driver.
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At any time at least 25% of people driving in London are lost. That was pre sat nav, so probably 50% now.
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Slippy will know this - Brixton market was the first electrified market in the country and stands on Electric Avenue.
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Some great stuff being posted.
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Its difficult to build sky scrapers in London because the base is clay. A lot easier for Manhattan which is built on granite.
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must be the only city with 5 airports
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6 if you include Luton
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Luton cannot realistically be considered London Coach
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it can if you're an aircraft
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OK, I'll take that onboard
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it's actually called London Luton - as is Southend which could be even further out .Must be for the benefit of tourists - Yanks would consider Outer Hebredes London though
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