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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
20th January 1883 Betram Home Ramsay, Dunkirk Naval Strategist, was born in London.
20th January 1843 Born today: Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London)
20th January 1779 Actor David Garrick sadly passed away at The Adelphi buildings.
20th January 1382 King Richard II of England was married to Anne of Bohemia in Westminster Abbey.
20th January 1265 First English Parliament summoned by non-royal command (The Earl of Leicester) met in Westminster Hall.
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. Camden Catacombs, 21 feet under @ Camden Lock Place
12. Little Compton Street @ Charing Cross Road, London
13. The Widow's Son @ 75 Devon's Road, Bow, London
14. Brian Harvey's Car Accident @ The Drive, Walthamstow, London
15. The House they left behind @ 27 Ropemakers Fields, Narrow Street, Limehouse
16. Thomas Hardy's Tree @ Pancras Road, Kings Cross
17. Aleister Crowleys Den @ 67-69 Chancery Lane, Holborn
18. The Nose in Admiralty Arch @ The Mall
19. Joe Orton lived and died here @ 25 Noel Road, Islington, London
20. London's Most Expensive Haircut @ Park Lane
21. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
22. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
23. The Thin House @ Thurloe Square, Knightsbridge, London
24. The Lamb's Snob Screens @ 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn, London
25. A Lighthouse in King's Cross @ Gray's Inn Road
26. A Pyramid in Limehouse @ 5 Newell Street, Limehouse
27. Neal's Yard Water Clock @ 21-23 Shorts Gardens, Covent Garden, London
28. Top Hat Madness @ Strand
29. The Cock Tavern Debauchery @ Bow Street, London
30. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
31. The Mayflower Inn @ 117 Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey
32. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
33. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
34. Jim Henson's Creature Shop @ The Henson Building, 30 Oval Road
35. Spilt Royal Soup @ Buckingham Palace
36. The Battle of Blythe Road @ 36 Blythe Road, Kensington
37. St. Pancras New Church @ Euston Road
38. Alfies Rooftop Restaurant @ 13-25 Church Street, Marylebone
39. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
40. Frank Buckland's Menagerie @ 37 Albany Sreet, London
41. Time for a Royal Mug @ Hope & Glory, 131a Kensington Church Street
42. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
43. The Betsey Trotwood @ 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell
44. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
45. Museum of body parts... @ 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
46. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
47. Ancient Hunting Cry In London @ Soho
48. Barmy Balmes House @ Downham Road, Hackney, London
49. What No Skies @ 98 Finchley Road
50. Princess Caroline's Sunken Bath @ Charlton Way Entrance, Blackheath Park, Greenwic
51. David Bowie's Coal Mine @ 89 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
52. The Turkish Baths @ Old Broad Street from Liverpool Street
53. Conan Doyle's Temple @ Rochester Square, Camden
54. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
55. The Scooter Cafe @ Camden Market, Camden
56. The Last Wherryman's Seat @ Bankside, Southwark Bridge, Southwark
57. How To Measure A Cockney? @ St Mary-Le-Bow, Cheapside
58. The Bermondsey Tank @ Mandela Way, Bermondsey, London
59. The Museum Tavern @ 49 Great Russell Street
60. Spiral Escalator @ Holloway Road, Islington
61. London's Deepest Car Park @ Bloomsbury Square
62. Hanging Gardens of Paddington @ 16 London Street
63. Miracle at the Vishwa Temple @ 2 Lady Margaret Road, Southall
64. Tyburn Convent @ 8 Hyde Park Place
65. London's Smallest Pub, U Decide? @ 43 Linhope Street
66. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
67. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
68. A ghostly motorcycle passenger @ Blackwall Tunnel
69. The Piccadilly Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
70. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
71. The Farthing Bundle Lady @ Fern Street, Bow
72. A Big Tin @ West Silvertown
73. Curious Sign.... @ Near Waterloo
74. Britain's BEST Boozer @ 289, Queens Rd, New Cross
75. The Frost Fair on the Thames @ Blackfriars Bridge, London
76. Matinee With A Difference @ Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street
77. The Crosse Keys @ 9 Gracechurch Street, Bank
78. A ghostly Bricklayer @ South Black Lion Lane
79. The Skinny House @ Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush
80. Prime Minister - dismount! @ The Athenaeum Club, Westminster
81. Cursed Workplace? @ 71 Queen Victoria Street, London
82. An Argument about a Brown Dog @ Battersea Park
83. A mad day playing Rugby @ The Athletic Ground, Kew Foot Road
84. Stokenchurch Shoe Tree @ Wycombe Road, Stokenchurch, Middle
85. The Whispering Gallery @ St Pauls Cathedral, Westminster
86. Salvador Dali in his Diving Suit @ 5 Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly
87. Madame Tussauds @ Marylebone Road, Marylebone
88. Green Cabbie Hut...Chelsea @ Chelsea Embankment
89. Green Cabbie Hut...Hanover Sq @ Hanover Sqaure
90. The Necropolis Railway @ 121 Westminster Bridge Road
91. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
92. House of the Mystery Hat @ Goldhawk Road
93. The Field of Forty Footsteps @ Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London
94. Screaming Lord Sutch lived here @ Parkfield Road, South Harrow
95. Spring Heeled Jacks 1st Victim @ 1 Tredegar Road, Tower Hamlets, London
96. Home of the Tichborne Claimant @ 14 Harley Gardens, Chelsea
97. Wanstead Park's Grotto @ Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park
98. A Very Long Speech @ House of Commons
99. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda @ St James Park
100. One Nation under CCTV @ Newman Street, London
101. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
102. Museum Bomb Coincidence @ Edward VII Gallery, British Museum
103. Miller's Residence @ 111a Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London
104. The Temple of Health @ Schomberg House, 81 Pall Mall, London
105. The Statue that Copies You @ Sumner Street
106. The Phoney Houses @ 23-24 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
107. Mad Jack Fuller died here @ 36 Devonshire Place, London
108. Now that's a small Music Venue @ 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell
109. Foreign Anarchist Club @ 6 Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road
110. Alcoholic Architecture @ 2 Ganton Street
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
