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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
15th November 1978 Harold Pinter's Betrayal, premieres in London
15th November 1960 Born today: Tilda Swinton, London England, actress (Orlando)
15th November 1930 Comedian Mike Winters (brother of Bernie) was born in Islington.
15th November 1923 Born today: Peter Hammond, London England, actor (Buccaneers)
15th November 1845 Opera Maritana is produced (London)
Top Literary-related places to visit in London.
It's a magnet is London, always has been, it's always been the centre of the publishing world and London is awash with places that Dicken's lived, Shakespeare played, and many authors were inspired.
TOP 10 LITERARY RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE LITERARY SIGHTS:
11. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
12. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
13. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
14. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
15. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
16. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
17. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
18. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
19. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
20. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
21. Jackie Collins Home @ Hamilton Terrace, Swiss Cottage
22. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
23. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
24. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
25. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
26. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
27. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
28. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
29. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
30. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
31. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
32. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
33. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
34. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
35. Author Arnold Bennett lived here @ 75 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London
36. Self Help Man lived here @ 8 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, London
37. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
38. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
39. The Wind in Holland Park @ 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park
40. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
41. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
42. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
43. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
44. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
45. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
46. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
47. Time to get Trolleyed @ 73A Redchurch Street, Old Street
48. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
49. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
50. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
51. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
52. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
53. Roald Dahl's Studio @ 8 Turnchapel Mews, Clapham
54. Temple Church @ Temple, London
55. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
56. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
57. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
58. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
59. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
60. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
61. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
62. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
63. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
64. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
65. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
66. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
67. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
68. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
69. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
70. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
71. Strawberry Hill House @ 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham
72. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
73. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
74. Frankenstein author born here @ Polygon Road, Euston
75. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
76. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
77. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
78. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
79. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
80. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
81. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
82. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
83. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
84. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
85. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
86. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
87. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
88. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
89. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
90. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
91. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
92. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
93. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
94. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
95. Home to the Daily Courant @ Fleet Street
96. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
97. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
98. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
99. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
100. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
101. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
102. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
103. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
104. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
105. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
106. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
107. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
108. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
109. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
110. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
