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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
27th May 1993 Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies
27th May 1957 Siouxsie Sioux, singer of punk rockers Siouxsie and the Banshees, was born in London.
27th May 1922 Born today: Christopher Lee, London England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles)
27th May 1898 Arthur Pinero's Trelawney of the 'Wells', premieres in London
27th May 1199 The Coronation of John I in Westminster Abbey.
Top Historical-related places to visit in London.
Some of the great stories and places from historic London.
TOP 10 HISTORICAL RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE HISTORICAL SIGHTS:
11. A barbers with a secret @ 156 Caledonian Road
12. Spiral Escalator @ Holloway Road, Islington
13. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
14. Wapping Pier Head @ Off Wapping High Street
15. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
16. Merrick of Mile End @ Mile End Road
17. King of the Zulu's @ 18 Melbury Road, London
18. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
19. Green Pond Road Stadium @ Green Pond Road, Walthamstow
20. Wapping Old Stairs @ Nr Wapping high Street
21. Top Hat Madness @ Strand
22. Charles I's Intercepted Letter @ 285 High Holborn, London
23. Tyburn Convent @ 8 Hyde Park Place
24. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
25. Thames Ironworks @ Bow Creek, Canning Town
26. How To Measure A Cockney? @ St Mary-Le-Bow, Cheapside
27. The Samuel Gurney Memorial @ Broadway, Stratford, London
28. Loughton's Iron Age Camp @ Loughton Camp, Loughton, Epping Forest
29. The Walthamstow Windmill @ Oak Hill Gardens, Walthamstow
30. Secret Tunnels - 100 feet down @ Craig Court, off Trafalgar Square
31. Friday Hill House @ 7 Simmons Lane, Chingford
32. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
33. The First Coffee Shop in London @ St Michaels Alley, Cornhill, Bank
34. Shadwell Basin @ Off Glamis Road
35. Cittie Of Yorke @ 22 High Holborn
36. Harcourt House's Odd Duke @ Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, London
37. A ghostly Bricklayer @ South Black Lion Lane
38. Bagnigge House @ 61-63 Kings Cross Road
39. The Widest Pavement in London @ Whitechapel High Street, E1
40. Barmy Balmes House @ Downham Road, Hackney, London
41. St John's Churchyard @ Nr Wapping Gardens
42. The Two Puddings @ 27 Broadway, Stratford
43. London's Smallest Pub, U Decide? @ 43 Linhope Street
44. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
45. Bromley Hall @ 43 Gillender Street, London
46. Ancient Hunting Cry In London @ Soho
47. The Turkish Baths @ Old Broad Street from Liverpool Street
48. Parliament Hill Park, But Why? @ Parliament Hill
49. Nelson in Somerset @ Somerset House, Strand
50. The Monument.... is leaning! @ Near King William Street
51. Bob Hope was born here @ 44 Craigton Road, Eltham
52. Once a Gun Safe House @ 257 Caledonian Road
53. Wanstead Park's Grotto @ Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park
54. Headstone Manor @ Pinner View, Middlesex
55. Milestone Hotel @ 1 Kensington Court, London
56. The Spaniard's Inn @ Spaniards Road, Hampstead
57. The Great Fire of London @ Pudding Lane
58. The Wernher Collection @ Ranger's House, Chesterfield Walk, Blackheath
59. Once there were Herrings @ 137 Cannon Street
60. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
61. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
62. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
63. Soho...Fruit and Veg...Porn @ Berwick Street
64. Artist Piet Mondrian's House @ 60 Parkhill Road, Hampstead
65. Jonas Hanway's Handy Gadget @ Hanway House, Red Lion Square
66. The Old Bedford @ 123-133 Camden High Street, Camden
67. The Phoney Houses @ 23-24 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
68. Prospect of Whitby @ 57 Wapping Wall
69. The Volunteer @ 247 Baker Street
70. Berezovsky's Stanley House @ Stanley House, Chelsea, London
71. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
72. Black Cap @ 171 Camden High Street, London
73. The Water Rats @ 328 Grays Inn Road, London
74. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
75. Charterhouse @ Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London
76. Topham Beauclerk's house @ Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London
77. The Coal Hole @ 91 Strand, Westminster, London
78. Dr John Snow's Pump @ Broadwick Street, Soho, London
79. The Gatehouse @ 1 North Road
80. The Ancient House @ Walthamstow Village, London
81. Wimbledon, Lawn Tennis Club @ Church Road, Wimbledon
82. Whitechapel Bell Foundry @ 34 Whitechapel Road, London
83. Kingsway Tunnels - 110 feet down @ Chancery Lane & Kingsway...
84. The Grenadier and it's Ghosts @ 18 Wilton Row, Chelsea
85. Dennis Severs House @ 18 Folgate Street, London
86. John Wilkes' House Riots @ 35 Grosvenor Square
87. All about Film in London @ County Hall, Riverside Building
88. London's Oldest Terraced Houses @ 52-55 Newington Green
89. Rugby Was Born Here @ St Clement Danes Church, Strand
90. Tower Hill @ Nr Tower Hill Tube Station
91. St James Palace @ St James Palace
92. Five Fields becomes One @ Belgrave Square
93. Bridge House @ 23 Barking Road, Canning Town
94. A Park once filled with Vice @ Whetstone Park, Camden
95. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home @ 19 Princelet Street, London
96. 1st petrol car was built here @ 1 Connaught Road, Walthamstow, London
97. Big Ben.... @ Westminster
98. Rowton's Arlington House @ 1 Early Mews, Camden Town
99. Old Operating Theatre @ 9a St Thomas Street
100. St. Pancras New Church @ Euston Road
101. East London's Oldest House @ 2 - 4 Homerton High Street, Hackney
102. Milroy's of Soho @ 3 Greek Street, Westminster
103. The London Stone @ Cannon Street, London
104. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
105. Nelson Arms @ 15 Merton High Street
106. Number One, London @ Apsley House
107. Site of Lord Byrons famous duel @ 100 Pall Mall
108. From Russia With Love @ Somerset House, Strand
109. Another 'Pie & Mash' gem @ 9 Broadway Market
110. Old Queens Head @ 44 Essex Road
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
