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TOP 10 HISTORICAL RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:

1. Tyburn Convent	2. The Phoney Houses	3. Secret Tunnels - 100 feet down	4. Henry VIII's wine cellar	5. Jack Straw's Castle
6. The Turkish Baths	7. London's Oldest Terraced Houses	8. Soho...Fruit and Veg...Porn	9. The River Lea Coppermill	10. Seven Dials (nee Six)

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11. The World's First Tube Line @ Off Faringdon Road
12. Top Hat Madness @ Strand
13. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
14. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
15. Shadwell Basin @ Off Glamis Road
16. Notre Dame de France @ 5 Leicester Place
17. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
18. Walnut Tree House @ 500 High Street, Leyton
19. The Clerk's Well @ Well Court, Clerkenwell, London
20. The Spaniard's Inn @ Spaniards Road, Hampstead
21. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
22. Another 'Pie & Mash' gem @ 9 Broadway Market
23. Lets All Drive On The Right! @ Savoy, The Strand
24. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
25. Headstone Manor @ Pinner View, Middlesex
26. The 'Portable' Crosby Hall @ Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
27. The Jamaica Wine House @ St Michaels Alley, Cornhill, Bank
28. The Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
29. Syon House & Gosford Park @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
30. King of the Zulu's @ 18 Melbury Road, London
31. Topham Beauclerk's house @ Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London
32. 1st petrol car was built here @ 1 Connaught Road, Walthamstow, London
33. Gunpowder Plot was foiled here @ Under House of Lords, Westminster
34. Lock & Co...Historical Hats @ 6 St. James's Street
35. Sutton House @ Sutton House, Hackney, London
36. Little Welsh Chapel.... @ Eastcastle Street
37. Dr John Snow's Pump @ Broadwick Street, Soho, London
38. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
39. Ripper's First Victim @ Durward Street
40. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
41. Wapping Old Stairs @ Nr Wapping high Street
42. Ye Olde Mitre @ 1 Ely Court
43. London's Oldest Chippie... @ 47 Endall Street
44. Change Alley @ Bank, London
45. Charlton House: Lusty Ghost @ Charlton Road, Charlton, London
46. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home @ 19 Princelet Street, London
47. Edward III's Queen's Park @ Hainault Forest
48. St Katherine's Dock Marina @ Off Smithfield
49. Wapping Pier Head @ Off Wapping High Street
50. Wapping Station @ Nr Wapping Rose Garden
51. Prospect of Whitby @ 57 Wapping Wall
52. Kingsway Tunnels - 110 feet down @ Chancery Lane & Kingsway...
53. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
54. A barbers with a secret @ 156 Caledonian Road
55. The exact centre of London @ St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
56. The College of Arms @ Queen Victoria Street, London
57. The Widest Pavement in London @ Whitechapel High Street, E1
58. So Why New Scotland Yard? @ Victoria Street
59. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
60. The Painted Hall @ Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
61. East London's Oldest House @ 2 - 4 Homerton High Street, Hackney
62. Captain Kidd Public House @ Off Wapping Rose Garden
63. The Mayflower Inn @ 117 Rotherhithe Street
64. Milroy's of Soho @ 3 Greek Street, Westminster
65. History of St Sepulchre Church @ Church of St Sepulchre, London
66. Entrance To See The Queen... @ Marble Arch
67. Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge @ 6 Rangers Road, Chingford, London
68. Site of Lord Byrons famous duel @ 100 Pall Mall, London
69. Ancient Hunting Cry In London @ Soho
70. Medieval Lords At Earls Court @ Earls Court Tube Station
71. A Very Long Speech @ House of Commons
72. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
73. A House of Laughter @ Glenshaw Mansions, Brixton Road / Mowll Street
74. The Red Lion @ 48 Parliament Street
75. The Chequers Tavern @ 16 Duke Street
76. London's Most Male Street @ Panton Street, Haymarket
77. The BBC...visually gorgeous @ Regent Street
78. Lord Shaftesbury - A.K.A. - Eros @ Piccadilly Circus
79. How To Measure A Cockney? @ St Mary-Le-Bow, Cheapside
80. Carlton Hotel Communism @ Haymarket
81. Volunteers from Paddington @ 123 Bayswater Road
82. All about Film in London @ County Hall, Riverside Building
83. A Park once filled with Vice @ Whetstone Park, Camden
84. The Devil and the Lady @ Bleeding Heart Yard, off Greville Street
85. St James Church @ Clerkenwell Close
86. Tower Hill @ Nr Tower Hill Tube Station
87. St John's Churchyard @ Nr Wapping Gardens
88. The Actors' Church @ Bedford Street, Covent Garden
89. Green Pond Road Stadium @ Green Pond Road, Walthamstow
90. George Inn @ Borough High Street, Southwark
91. Old Queens Head @ 44 Essex Road
92. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
93. George Peabody...Statue @ Royal Exchange
94. Sir Hugh Myddelton's Statue @ Threadneedle Street
95. Drink with an Old Soldier! @ 41 Romney Street, Westminster, London
96. Bob Hope - Londoner At Heart @ Craigton Road, Eltham
97. Rugby Was Born Here @ St Clement Danes Church, Strand
98. Parliament Hill Park, But Why? @ Parliament Hill
99. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
100. Queen Vic's Hubby Hall @ Kensington Gore
101. Ice-cream on the line @ The Strand
102. Five Fields becomes One @ Belgrave Square
103. Oliver Cromwell's resting place @ 72 High Holborn, Holborn
104. The John Snow @ 39 Broadwick Street
105. The Volunteer @ 247 Baker Street
106. The Water Rats @ 328 Grays Inn Road, London
107. Westminster Bridge @ Westminster and South Bank
108. Whitechapel Bell Foundry @ 34 Whitechapel Road, London
109. Bromley Hall @ 43 Gillender Street, London
110. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill

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