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

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. Jack Straw's Castle @ North End Way , London
15. Dr John Snow's Pump @ Broadwick Street, Soho, London
16. Syon House & Gosford Park @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
17. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
18. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
19. London's Oldest Terraced Houses @ 52-55 Newington Green
20. M. Manze...pie and mash @ 87 Tower Bridge Road
21. Walnut Tree House @ 500 High Street, Leyton
22. The Clerk's Well @ Well Court, Clerkenwell, London
23. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
24. Site of Lord Byrons famous duel @ 100 Pall Mall, London
25. Headstone Manor @ Pinner View, Middlesex
26. Queen Vic's Hubby Hall @ Kensington Gore
27. The River Lea Coppermill @ Copper Mill Lane, Walthamstow
28. The Old Dispensary @ 30 Romford Rd, Newham
29. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
30. So What's It Called? @ 250 Havistock Hill
31. Berezovsky's Stanley House @ Stanley House, Chelsea, London
32. London's Most Male Street @ Panton Street, Haymarket
33. The World's First Tube Line @ Off Faringdon Road
34. Wapping Old Stairs @ Nr Wapping high Street
35. The Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
36. The Water Rats @ 328 Grays Inn Road, London
37. A ghostly Bricklayer @ South Black Lion Lane
38. The Lady Well Spring @ 148 Ladywell Road, Ladywell, Lewisham
39. Wimbledon, Lawn Tennis Club @ Church Road, Wimbledon
40. Sutton House @ Sutton House, Hackney, London
41. A barbers with a secret @ 156 Caledonian Road
42. Hatton Garden....Eyes Wide Shut @ Hatton Garden, London
43. Topham Beauclerk's house @ Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London
44. Captain Kidd Public House @ Off Wapping Rose Garden
45. Batman.....at St Pancras @ King's Cross/St. Pancras Station
46. St James Leprosy @ St James' Palace
47. Linley Sambourne House @ 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, London
48. Cleopatra's Needle @ Victoria Embankment, near Golden Jubilee Bridges
49. Home to the Daily Courant @ Fleet Street
50. The Red Lion @ 23 Crown Passage, Off Pall Mall
51. The Spaniard's Inn @ Spaniards Road, Hampstead
52. Kingsway Tunnels - 110 feet down @ Chancery Lane & Kingsway...
53. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home @ 19 Princelet Street, London
54. A Pint and a Perm @ 38 Maddox Street
55. The Phoney Houses @ 23-24 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
56. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
57. The Walthamstow Windmill @ Oak Hill Gardens, Walthamstow
58. Forty Hall @ Forty Hill, Enfield
59. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
60. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
61. Henry VIIIs Kennels @ Isle of Dogs
62. Harcourt House's Odd Duke @ Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, London
63. Lord Shaftesbury - A.K.A. - Eros @ Piccadilly Circus
64. Charlton House: Lusty Ghost @ Charlton Road, Charlton, London
65. A gilded-gold Memorial @ Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, Kensington
66. The downfall of Wanstead House @ Wanstead Park, Wanstead
67. 1st petrol car was built here @ 1 Connaught Road, Walthamstow, London
68. Parliament Hill Park, But Why? @ Parliament Hill
69. The Coal Hole @ 91 Strand, Westminster, London
70. St John's Gate @ Clerkenwell Road
71. Green Pond Road Stadium @ Green Pond Road, Walthamstow
72. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
73. The Ancient House @ Walthamstow Village, London
74. Leighton House & Arab Hall @ Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road
75. The 'Portable' Crosby Hall @ Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
76. John Wilkes' House Riots @ 35 Grosvenor Square
77. Salutation @ 154 King Street, Hammersmith
78. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
79. Another 'Pie & Mash' gem @ 9 Broadway Market
80. Old Retail and plenty of Tea @ 216 The Strand
81. Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' @ 22 Cleveland Street
82. The Volunteer @ 247 Baker Street
83. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
84. Radio London: Handels Past @ 35-36 Marylebone High Street, London
85. Milestone Hotel @ 1 Kensington Court, London
86. A Right Royal Guest List @ Westminster Abbey
87. Not a nice way to go @ London Bridge
88. Traditional & Jolly Old @ 54 Whitehall
89. A Park once filled with Vice @ Whetstone Park, Camden
90. The Samuel Gurney Memorial @ Broadway, Stratford, London
91. The London Wall @ London Wall
92. The Wernher Collection @ Ranger's House, Chesterfield Walk, Blackheath
93. The Old Bell Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
94. The Grenadier and it's Ghosts @ 18 Wilton Row, Chelsea
95. Black Cap @ 171 Camden High Street, London
96. London's oldest parish church @ West Smithfield, London
97. The Painted Hall @ Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
98. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
99. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
100. The Last of the Great Exhibition @ Coalbrookdale Gate, Kensington Gardens
101. Wimbledon Turnstile @ Church Road, Wimbledon
102. Little Welsh Chapel.... @ Eastcastle Street
103. Lock & Co...Historical Hats @ 6 St. James's Street
104. Five Fields becomes One @ Belgrave Square
105. 150 Not Out in Paddington @ 8-9 London Street
106. Charles I's Intercepted Letter @ 285 High Holborn, London
107. Wapping Pier Head @ Off Wapping High Street
108. Wanstead Park's Grotto @ Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park
109. Sir Hugh Myddelton's Statue @ Threadneedle Street
110. Rugby Was Born Here @ St Clement Danes Church, Strand

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