London

2. Full of homosexual men

3. Started life as Londinium.

1 in 4 of the population indigenous English

Teddington lock marks the end of the tidal reach of the Thames.

Good writer, crap boxer.

Part of Newham.

If you stood outside of Primark in Oxford Street for an hour, you would die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

home to Newham.

Finest Meat (Smithfield Market)  , Fish,(Billingsgate) Fresh fruit,vegetable & flower market ( new covent garden) in the land

The guns of HMS Belfast, which is moored near Tower Bridge and well worth a visit, are targeted on Scratchwood Services on the M1.

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.

Visitors to the Palace of Westminster are not allowed to sit on the leather covered benches in either debating chamber.

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.

Eeternaloptimist does happen to look like the Yorkshire Ripper though.

It's my manor.

Best Fish and Chip shop(Restaurant) in the UK...Masters(Superfish)5 mins walk from Waterloo Station.

Has now become Londonistan.

Will shortly be under Sharia Law.

Hell on earth. Civilisation gone mad.

Finest city in the world.

Has only ONE Greyhound stadium left and that will probably be gone in a year or two.

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

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.

I got a CSE in London Studies ...think it was the only time it was done ..1976-1977

Give us some facts then... or have you forgotten it all?

Forgotten what ?

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.

London Wall is a road iirc, think I used to walk along it to work back in the day.  Perhaps that was it.

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayoral candidate, grew up on a council estate and is the son of a bus driver.

At any time at least 25% of people driving in London are lost.  That was pre sat nav, so probably 50% now.

Slippy will know this - Brixton market was the first electrified market in the country and stands on Electric Avenue.

Some great stuff being posted.

Its difficult to build sky scrapers in London because the base is clay.  A lot easier for Manhattan which is built on granite.

must be the only city with 5 airports

6 if you include Luton

Luton cannot realistically be considered London Coach

it can if you're an aircraft 

OK, I'll take that onboard

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 

forgrt the tourists bit for Luton

Aswell as @cockney slang' and 'backslang' there is a third older one still used today it's called Polari which is still in use today particularly among London gays. My ex wife's hairdresser friends used it all the time actors use it too.

That's really interesting boxingthefox.

As the fact has been posted here's a link to it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

There is no in-between, you are either a gullible leftie, or a racist, (which in the real world Is a realist)
The gullible left, were never born in or around London, and the racists ( realists) were.

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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  Crazy

The film "american werewolf in london" is a great example of this, the hero gets attacked in yorkshire, but for some miraculous reason gets treated in a hospital in London!

The obvious one not yet posted, Big Ben is not the tower but the bell, which chimes in the key of E.

1 there is a miniature version of st pauls cathedral (known as little st pauls) that hangs over the south side of vauxhall bridge. be carfeul you dont fall in the thames if you look for it.
2 the seats in the house of commons are green, the same colour as westminster bridge, the closest bridge to the commons. whereas the seats in the house of lords are red, the same colour as lambeth bridge.
3 savoy court is the only road in london where you drive on the right
4 apsley house which is on hyde park corner is known as number one london
5 chelsea football club is in fulham not chelsea
6 there is only one road within the postcode w1, charing cross road.

boxinthefox, i think the tower is actually queen elizabeth tower, not 100% though.

jollyswagman correct, it was renamed for the Diamond jubilee I believe, don't know the previous name without googling.

Apsley house was home to Arthur Wellesley, aka  1st Duke of Wellington. what a great address.

curiously those ghastly new apartments known as one hyde park are actually on knightsbridge. i know which one i would rather live in.

I know the apartments but did not know that they had snaffled that address, Money talks, I suppose some/most are owned by absentee "investors" ?

Bigmo, read the link, very good just like this fred.

just read that link too. i once heard two people with links to the travelling community using a dialect i had never heard before or since. it always puzzled me, perhaps it was this. annoyingly i will never know for sure!

absentee investors indeed boxingthefox. there is a big development in vauxhall called st georges wharf, i read a report yesterday that said at night the lights are only on in about 20% of the entire plot, i know thats not scientific but its a sad state of affairs for sure, imo.

Yes a sad state indeed, .....if you ever hear a gay guy say to his friend "Vada the Package dear" (look at his bulge) run like hell. . Just to remind everyone my ex wife was a hairdresser and had many gay friends.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Sorry Bigmo I will stop hijacking your fred now.

London is expanding and now contains parts of Kent, Surrey and Middlesex to name just 3 counties.

Harry Nilsson owned a London Apartment in Mayfair, Mama Cass Elliott was staying there in 1974 & died in the apartment  from a heart attack in July 1974, four years later Keith moon was staying in the same flat & died there in Sept 1978, Nilsson never stayed there again & sold the flat To Pete Townsend.

the a smallest statue in london is a sculpture of two mice eating cheese. its halfway up a building on philpot lane. no one knows for sure how it got there.

Is that off Eastcheap, Jolly?

thats it ek, it runs from eastcheap to fenchurch st

Aside from E1 the remaining East London postcodes, through to E18, are in alphabetical order; very few Londoners realise this.

Polari was much used by Julian and Sandy in Round the Horn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZL4rTEWU5c
In Brighton in the gay quarter is a restaurant called Bona Foodie. Bona being the polari word for "nice".