When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth
Sep 2011 · The History Press
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Millions live there, millions more visit each year – but how many really know London?
Find out:
- How New York's famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square
- When Primrose Hill almost gained a pyramid even larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
- Why about 640 people came to be drowned in the Thames in a single night
- What the royal family might do to escape London if the balloon ever goes up
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About the author
Writer and journalist DAVID LONG has regularly appeared in The Times and the London Evening Standard, as well as on TV and radio. As well as being an award-winning ghostwriter, he has written a number of books on London, including Spectacular Vernacular, Tunnels, Towers & Temples, and the highly successful Little Book of London.
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