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Some of the great stories and places from historic London.

TOP 10 HISTORICAL RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:

1. London's Smallest Pub, U Decide?	2. The worst street in London	3. Secret Tunnels - 100 feet down	4. Bridge House	5. The First Coffee Shop in London
6. The exact centre of London	7. Barmy Balmes House	8. The Turkish Baths	9. Soho...Fruit and Veg...Porn	10. Henry VIII's wine cellar

MORE HISTORICAL SIGHTS:

11. Spiral Escalator @ Holloway Road, Islington
12. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
13. Tyburn Convent @ 8 Hyde Park Place
14. Syon House & Gosford Park @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
15. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
16. Jack Straw's Castle @ North End Way , London
17. Dr John Snow's Pump @ Broadwick Street, Soho, London
18. London's Oldest Terraced Houses @ 52-55 Newington Green
19. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
20. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
21. M. Manze...pie and mash @ 87 Tower Bridge Road
22. Walnut Tree House @ 500 High Street, Leyton
23. The Clerk's Well @ Well Court, Clerkenwell, London
24. Headstone Manor @ Pinner View, Middlesex
25. Site of Lord Byrons famous duel @ 100 Pall Mall, London
26. So What's It Called? @ 250 Havistock Hill
27. Berezovsky's Stanley House @ Stanley House, Chelsea, London
28. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
29. London's Most Male Street @ Panton Street, Haymarket
30. The River Lea Coppermill @ Copper Mill Lane, Walthamstow
31. Queen Vic's Hubby Hall @ Kensington Gore
32. The Old Dispensary @ 30 Romford Rd, Newham
33. Wapping Old Stairs @ Nr Wapping high Street
34. The Water Rats @ 328 Grays Inn Road, London
35. The World's First Tube Line @ Off Faringdon Road
36. The Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
37. The Lady Well Spring @ 148 Ladywell Road, Ladywell, Lewisham
38. Wimbledon, Lawn Tennis Club @ Church Road, Wimbledon
39. The Red Lion @ 23 Crown Passage, Off Pall Mall
40. Hatton Garden....Eyes Wide Shut @ Hatton Garden, London
41. Topham Beauclerk's house @ Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London
42. Sutton House @ Sutton House, Hackney, London
43. A barbers with a secret @ 156 Caledonian Road
44. A ghostly Bricklayer @ South Black Lion Lane
45. Captain Kidd Public House @ Off Wapping Rose Garden
46. Batman.....at St Pancras @ King's Cross/St. Pancras Station
47. St James Leprosy @ St James' Palace
48. Forty Hall @ Forty Hill, Enfield
49. The Spaniard's Inn @ Spaniards Road, Hampstead
50. Linley Sambourne House @ 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, London
51. Cleopatra's Needle @ Victoria Embankment, near Golden Jubilee Bridges
52. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home @ 19 Princelet Street, London
53. A Pint and a Perm @ 38 Maddox Street
54. Home to the Daily Courant @ Fleet Street
55. Kingsway Tunnels - 110 feet down @ Chancery Lane & Kingsway...
56. The Phoney Houses @ 23-24 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
57. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
58. Lord Shaftesbury - A.K.A. - Eros @ Piccadilly Circus
59. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
60. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
61. The Walthamstow Windmill @ Oak Hill Gardens, Walthamstow
62. The downfall of Wanstead House @ Wanstead Park, Wanstead
63. Charlton House: Lusty Ghost @ Charlton Road, Charlton, London
64. Henry VIIIs Kennels @ Isle of Dogs
65. St John's Gate @ Clerkenwell Road
66. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
67. Harcourt House's Odd Duke @ Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, London
68. 1st petrol car was built here @ 1 Connaught Road, Walthamstow, London
69. The Coal Hole @ 91 Strand, Westminster, London
70. A gilded-gold Memorial @ Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, Kensington
71. The 'Portable' Crosby Hall @ Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
72. Parliament Hill Park, But Why? @ Parliament Hill
73. John Wilkes' House Riots @ 35 Grosvenor Square
74. Salutation @ 154 King Street, Hammersmith
75. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
76. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
77. Green Pond Road Stadium @ Green Pond Road, Walthamstow
78. The Grenadier and it's Ghosts @ 18 Wilton Row, Chelsea
79. The Ancient House @ Walthamstow Village, London
80. Leighton House & Arab Hall @ Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road
81. A Right Royal Guest List @ Westminster Abbey
82. Five Fields becomes One @ Belgrave Square
83. The Wernher Collection @ Ranger's House, Chesterfield Walk, Blackheath
84. The Two Puddings @ 27 Broadway, Stratford
85. Gunpowder Plot was foiled here @ Under House of Lords, Westminster
86. Another 'Pie & Mash' gem @ 9 Broadway Market
87. Lock & Co...Historical Hats @ 6 St. James's Street
88. A Garden with a Gruesome Past @ West Smithfield Garden
89. Old Retail and plenty of Tea @ 216 The Strand
90. Traditional & Jolly Old @ 54 Whitehall
91. 150 Not Out in Paddington @ 8-9 London Street
92. A Park once filled with Vice @ Whetstone Park, Camden
93. The Last of the Great Exhibition @ Coalbrookdale Gate, Kensington Gardens
94. Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' @ 22 Cleveland Street
95. The Volunteer @ 247 Baker Street
96. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
97. Radio London: Handels Past @ 35-36 Marylebone High Street, London
98. Milestone Hotel @ 1 Kensington Court, London
99. The Samuel Gurney Memorial @ Broadway, Stratford, London
100. London's oldest parish church @ West Smithfield, London
101. Little Welsh Chapel.... @ Eastcastle Street
102. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
103. Not a nice way to go @ London Bridge
104. The Painted Hall @ Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
105. Russians, Stags and Knights @ 1 Westbourne Road
106. Food, Drink and Exercise @ 217 Uxbridge Road
107. Food drenched in historical Art @ 41 Beak Street
108. Wimbledon Turnstile @ Church Road, Wimbledon
109. The London Wall @ London Wall
110. Wanstead Park's Grotto @ Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park

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