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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
22nd January 1967 Born today: Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress (Wonder Years, Single Guy)
22nd January 1946 Punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren was born in Stoke Newington.
22nd January 1927 The first ever live football radio commentary for Arsenal v Sheff Utd.
22nd January 1920 England football manager Sir Alf Ramsey was born in Dagenham.
22nd January 1876 The Royal Aquarium amusement park opened in Westminster.
Top Quirky-related places to visit in London.
You must be strange. Or tired of all the same old tourist locations. Good news, there's loads of bizarre and surreal places to visit in London. Dive in!
TOP 10 QUIRKY RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE QUIRKY SIGHTS:
11. The House they left behind @ 27 Ropemakers Fields, Narrow Street, Limehouse
12. The Nose in Admiralty Arch @ The Mall
13. The Thin House @ Thurloe Square, Knightsbridge, London
14. Little Compton Street @ Charing Cross Road, London
15. Australia House & Harry Potter @ Strand
16. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
17. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
18. The Cock Tavern Debauchery @ Bow Street, London
19. The Lamb's Snob Screens @ 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn, London
20. A Lighthouse in King's Cross @ Gray's Inn Road
21. The First Coffee Shop in London @ St Michaels Alley, Cornhill, Bank
22. Foreign Anarchist Club @ 6 Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road
23. Thomas Hardy's Tree @ Pancras Road, Kings Cross
24. The Battle of Blythe Road @ 36 Blythe Road, Kensington
25. Brian Harvey's Car Accident @ The Drive, Walthamstow, London
26. The Mayflower Inn @ 117 Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey
27. Joe Orton lived and died here @ 25 Noel Road, Islington, London
28. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
29. The Scooter Cafe @ Camden Market, Camden
30. The Turkish Baths @ Old Broad Street from Liverpool Street
31. Neal's Yard Water Clock @ 21-23 Shorts Gardens, Covent Garden, London
32. Stanley Green Protein Man @ 34 Haydock Green, Northolt, Middlesex
33. The Skinny House @ Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush
34. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
35. David Bowie's Coal Mine @ 89 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
36. Hackney's Mole Man @ Mortimer Road, Hackney, London
37. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
38. Britain's BEST Boozer @ 289, Queens Rd, New Cross
39. Top Hat Madness @ Strand
40. Museum of body parts... @ 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
41. Tyburn Convent @ 8 Hyde Park Place
42. The Field of Forty Footsteps @ Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London
43. London's Smallest Pub, U Decide? @ 43 Linhope Street
44. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
45. Barmy Balmes House @ Downham Road, Hackney, London
46. The Museum Tavern @ 49 Great Russell Street
47. The Frost Fair on the Thames @ Blackfriars Bridge, London
48. How To Measure A Cockney? @ St Mary-Le-Bow, Cheapside
49. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
50. Ancient Hunting Cry In London @ Soho
51. Earl's Court's Escalators @ Earl's Court Road, Earl's Court
52. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
53. One Nation under CCTV @ Newman Street, London
54. Madame Tussauds @ Marylebone Road, Marylebone
55. Alien Autopsy location @ Rochester Square, Camden, London
56. Harry Potter's Diagon Alley @ Cecil Court
57. Alfies Rooftop Restaurant @ 13-25 Church Street, Marylebone
58. The Betsey Trotwood @ 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell
59. The Last Wherryman's Seat @ Bankside, Southwark Bridge, Southwark
60. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
61. The Coach and Horses @ 29 Greek Street, London
62. London's Deepest Car Park @ Bloomsbury Square
63. Princess Caroline's Sunken Bath @ Charlton Way Entrance, Blackheath Park, Greenwic
64. God's Own Junkyard @ Unit 12, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall
65. Jonas Hanway's Handy Gadget @ Hanway House, Red Lion Square
66. Time for Tea at the Palace... @ 175 Westbourne Grove
67. St. Pancras New Church @ Euston Road
68. Salvador Dali in his Diving Suit @ 5 Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly
69. Wanstead Park's Grotto @ Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park
70. Mad Jack Fuller died here @ 36 Devonshire Place, London
71. Mrs Montagu's Chimney Sweeps @ Portman Square, Marylebone
72. The Red Lion @ 48 Parliament Street
73. The Farthing Bundle Lady @ Fern Street, Bow
74. Pepe's Polka Dot House @ 99 Talbot Road, Notting Hill
75. Pimlico Gardens and Huskisson @ Chelsea Embankment, Pimlico
76. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill
77. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
78. The Highbury Clock @ Highbury Barn, Islington
79. Eating in Darkness @ Dans le Noir, 30-31 Clerkenwell Green, London
80. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
81. Doctor Who at Earls Court @ Earls Court Tube Station
82. Pat Sharp's Mullet @ 16 The Broadway, Mill Hill
83. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda @ St James Park
84. Eisenhower HQ en suite @ Park Lane
85. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
86. House of the Mystery Hat @ Goldhawk Road
87. A Pyramid in Limehouse @ 5 Newell Street, Limehouse
88. Scotch Malt Whisky Society @ 19 Greville Street
89. The Temple of Health @ Schomberg House, 81 Pall Mall, London
90. Home of the Tichborne Claimant @ 14 Harley Gardens, Chelsea
91. Finland in London @ Finnish Church, 33 Albion Street
92. Camden Head @ 2 Camden Walk, Camden Passage
93. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
94. A Big Tin @ West Silvertown
95. Hampstead's False Bridge @ Hampstead Heath, Hampstead
96. Woe can lead to Joy! @ Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate
97. A ghostly Bricklayer @ South Black Lion Lane
98. Hanging Gardens of Paddington @ 16 London Street
99. The Ice Bar...brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr @ 31-33 Heddon Street
100. Big Ben.... @ Westminster
101. Lambeth Country Show @ Brockwell Park, Herne Hill
102. The Phoney Houses @ 23-24 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
103. Merrick of Mile End @ Mile End Road
104. The Necropolis Railway @ 121 Westminster Bridge Road
105. The Ubiquitous Undead Walk @ Junction Road, London
106. Home to a Classic Animated TV @ Festing Road, Putney
107. Spiral Escalator @ Holloway Road, Islington
108. Buttons...are essential.. @ The Button Queen, 19 Marylebone Lane
109. Eccentric Dentist's Show @ 56 Mount Street, London
110. Spring Heeled Jacks 1st Victim @ 1 Tredegar Road, Tower Hamlets, London
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
