I Never Knew That About London

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by Christopher Winn


  Open daily

  Tel: 020 7222 9648

  Battersea Dogs and Cats Home

  4 Battersea Park Road SW8

  Nearest station: Battersea Park

  Open daily 10.30 – 4.00

  www.dogshome.org

  Tel: 020 7622 3626

  LAMBETH

  Brunswick House

  30 Wandsworth Road SW8

  Nearest underground: Vauxhall

  Open Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 5.00

  www.lassco.co.uk

  Tel: 020 7394 2100

  Lambeth Palace

  Lambeth palace Road SE1

  Nearest underground: Lambeth North or Westminster

  Open by appointment

  Tel: 020 7898 1200

  www.archbishopofcanterbury.org

  St Mary at Lambeth, Museum of

  Garden History

  Lambeth Palace Road SE1

  Nearest underground: Lambeth North or Westminster

  Open Tuesday – Sunday 10.30 – 5.00

  www.museumgardenhistory.org

  Tel: 020 7401 8865

  London Eye

  County Hall

  Nearest underground: Waterloo

  Open Winter: October – May

  10.00am – 8.00pm daily

  Summer: June – September

  10.00am – 9.00pm daily

  www.londoneye.com

  SOUTHWARK

  Southwark Cathedral

  London Bridge SE1

  Nearest underground: London Bridge

  Open Monday – Friday 8.00 – 6.00 Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays 9.00 – 6.00

  http://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org

  Tel: 020 7367 6700

  Old Operating Theatre

  Nearest underground: London Bridge

  Open daily 10.30 – 5.00

  www.thegarret.org.uk

  Tel: 020 7188 2679

  Tate Modern

  Nearest underground: Mansion House (via Wobbly Bridge) or London Bridge

  Open Sunday – Thursday, 10.00 – 18.00

  Friday and Saturday, 10.00 – 22.00

  Tel: 020 7887 8888

  www.tate.org.uk

  Globe Theatre

  South Bank

  Nearest underground: Mansion House (via Wobbly Bridge) or London Bridge

  Open daily 10 October to 17 April 10.00 – 5.00 18 April to 9 October 9.00 – 12.00 and 12.30 – 5.00 Sunday 9.00 – 11.30 and 12.00 – 5.00

  www.shakespeares-globe.org

  Tel: 020 7902 1500

  Clink Museum

  Clink Street SE1

  Nearest underground: London Bridge

  Open Monday – Friday 10.00 – 6.00

  Saturday and Sunday 10.00 – 9.00

  www.clink.co.uk

  Tel: 020 7403 0900

  Design Museum

  Shad Thames SE1

  Nearest underground: Tower Hill (via Tower Bridge)

  Open daily 10.00 – 5.45

  www.designmuseum.org

  Tel: 0870 909 9009

  Bermondsey Market

  Bermondsey Street SE1

  Nearest underground: Bermondsey or London Bridge

  Open Fridays 4.00 – 12.00

  www.bermondseysquare.co.uk

  GREENWICH

  Painted Hall, Greenwich

  Greenwich SE10

  Nearest underground: Cutty Sark DLR

  Open daily 10.00 – 5.00

  www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org

  Tel: 020 8269 4747

  National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory

  Greenwich SE10

  Nearest underground: Greenwich or Cutty Sark DLR

  Open daily 10.00 – 5.00

  www.nmm.ac.uk

  Tel: 020 8312 6565

  Cutty Sark

  Nearest underground: Cutty Sark

  *Closed for foreseeable future due to fire in 2007

  www.cuttysark.org.uk

  Millennium Dome now The O2

  Drawdock Road SE10

  Nearest underground: North Greenwich

  www.millenium-dome.com

  Charlton House

  Charlton Road SE7

  Nearest station: Charlton

  Open Monday – Friday 9.00 – 10.00 Saturday 10.00 – 5.00

  www.greenwich.gov.uk

  Thames Barrier Exhibition Centre

  Unity Way, Woolwich SE18

  Nearest station: Charlton

  Open April – September 10.30 – 4.00

  October – March 11.00 – 3.30

  www.environment-agency.gov.uk

  Index of People

  The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  Abramovich, Roman 95

  Adam, James 75

  Adam, Robert 19, 75, 174

  Adams, John 98

  Adams, John Quincy 10

  Adams. Gerry 179

  Addington, Henry 160

  Addison, Joseph 64, 188

  Adelaide, Queen 5, 7

  Aga Khan, The 110

  Ainsworth, Robert 156

  Airy, George 129

  Aitken, Jonathan 132

  Albert, Prince 8, 58, 86, 96, 98, 109, 120

  Alexander, Crown Prince 98

  Alexandra, Queen 108

  Alfege, St 250

  Allen, Charles 33

  Allen, Chesney 166

  Alleyn, Edward 36

  Amery, John 211

  Amery, Julian 211

  Amery, Leo 211

  Amies, Hardy 100

  Anderssen, Adolf 78

  Andrewes, Launcelot 10

  Anjou, Margaret of 247

  Anne of Denmark, Queen 72

  Anne, Queen 91, 109, 185, 250

  Annigoni 45

  Antonioni, Michaelangelo 252

  Aragon, Catherine of 39

  Archer, Jeffrey 219

  Armstrong, Louis 83

  Armstrong, Sir William 149

  Arne, Thomas 85

  Arnold, Benedict 212

  Arthur, Prince 39

  Ashmole, Elias 222

  Askey, Arthur 210

  Aspinall, John 100

  Asquith, Lord 86

  Astafieva, Princess Seraphina 181

  Astaire, Adele 74

  Astaire, Fred 74

  Astley, Major Philip 225

  Astor, Lord 42

  Astor, Nancy 92

  Atkinson, Rowan 157

  Attenborough, Lord 143

  Attlee, Clement 165

  Augustus, Emperor 76

  Austin, Herbert 84

  Aylward, June 189

  Ayres, Alice 60

  Babington, Anthony 87

  Bacon, Francis 77, 81, 188

  Baden Powell, Lord 34

  Baird, John Logie 78, 83, 84

  Baker, Herbert 27

  Baker, Robert 91

  Balfour, Arthur 121

  Ball, John 251

  Baltimore, Lord 54

  Bancroft, Anne 202

  Bankhead, Tallulah 93

  Banks, Sir Joseph 176, 216

  Barfield, Julia 226

  Baring, Edmund 30

  Baring, Francis 30

  Baring, John 30

  Barnardo, Thomas 164

  Barnett, Canon Samuel 165

  Barrett, Michael 60

  Barrie, J.M. 186

  Barrie, Sir James 97

  Barry, Charles 31

  Barry, John 219

  Barry, Sir Charles 119, 127, 141, 229

  Barry, Sir John Wolfe 141

  Bazalgette, Sir Joseph 75, 76, 208, 213

  Beard, Thomas 182

  Beasant, Annie 63

  Beatles, The 96

  Beatrice, Princess 83

  Beaufort, Duke of 111

  Beaufort, Joan 235

  Beaufort, Margaret 74

  Beck, James 210

  Becket, Thomas 6

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nbsp; Bedford, Earl of 84

  Beeton, Mrs 35

  Beeton, Samuel 35

  Behn, Aphra 130

  Bell, Alexander Graham 99

  Bellingham, John 252

  Benbow, Admiral John 245

  Benn, Tony 131

  Bennet Lawes, John 254

  Bennett, Arnold 91

  Bennett, Tony 201

  Bentham, Jeremy 133

  Bentine, Michael 136

  Bentley, Derek 211

  Bentley, John Francis 13, 136, 229

  Bentley, Nathaniel 37

  Berkoff, Steven 154, 170

  Bernard, Jeffrey 89

  Bernini, Paolo 178

  Betjemen, Sir John 61, 143, 213

  Beveridge, William 165

  Bianco, Francesco 112

  Biggs, Ronnie 212

  Binnie, Sir Alexander 159, 219

  Birkenhead, Lord 116

  Birley, Mark 100

  Black Prince 43, 73

  Bladwin, Stanley 134

  Blair, Tony 87, 117

  Blake, George 107, 200

  Blake, William 83, 96, 141, 212, 231, 241

  Bligh, Captain William 147, 222

  Blood, Colonel Thomas 147

  Blore, Edward 104

  Blunt, Anthony 210

  Blyton, Enid 210

  Boadicea, Queen 120

  Boehm, J.E. 94

  Bogarde, Dirk 181

  Boleyn Anne 223, 141, 173, 247

  Bolton, Prior William 62

  Bonaparte, Prince Lucien 203

  Bonham Carter, Jane 199

  Bonnie Prince Charlie 72

  Boon, Dr James 255

  Booth, William 167

  Borough, Stephen 150

  Borough, William 150

  Borrow, George 180

  Bosanquet, Reginald 210

  Boswell, James 3, 87, 117, 119

  Boulestin, Marcel 87

  Bourchier, Elizabeth 32

  Bowie, David 201

  Bowler, Thomas 110

  Bowler, William 110

  Bowman, Christopher 21

  Boydell, John 35

  Boyle, Robert 81

  Bracken, Brendan 132

  Braddock, Lady Almeria 95

  Braganza, Catherine of 73, 198, 222

  Braham, Philip 154

  Brangwyn, Sir Frank 23

  Brawne, Fanny 180

  Bremer, Frederick 84

  Bridge, Richard 165

  Bristow, Henry 60

  Britton, Thomas 63

  Brontë, Anne 20

  Brontë, Charlotte 20

  Brooks, Reginald 221

  Brosnan, Pierce 144

  Brougham, Lord 92

  Brown, Daniel 54

  Brown, Ford Madox 177

  Brown, Gordon 48

  Brown, James 99

  Brown, Sarah 99

  Brummell, Beau 110

  Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 77, 158, 161, 179

  Brunel, Marc 179, 239

  Brunswick, Caroline of 198

  Brunswick, Duke of 218

  Bryant, Sir Arthur 91

  Buchanan, Jack 196

  Buckingham, Duke of 77, 104

  Bunyan, John 66

  Burbage, James 36, 46

  Burbage, Richard 36, 46, 187, 234

  Burgess, William 189

  Burney, Dr 175

  Burney, Fanny 175

  Burton, Decimus 93

  Bush, Irving T 78

  Bygraves, Max 241

  Byron, Lord 91, 92, 102, 110, 188

  Cade, Jack 6, 237, 251

  Cadogan, Dr William 193

  Caine, Michael 82, 200

  Caine, Sir Michael 241

  Calvi, Roberto 47

  Campbell, Alastair 117

  Campbell, Naomi 87, 229

  Canning, George 209

  Canova, Antonio 95, 227

  Carlyle, Thomas 112, 177, 182

  Carter, Howard 210

  Casabianca, Admiral 248

  Cash, Johnny 201

  Cass, Mama 101

  Castile, Eleanour of 108, 240

  Castlereagh, Lord 209

  Catherine, Queen 112

  Caunt, Benjamin 128

  Cave, Edward 62

  Cavell, Edith 169

  Cavendish, Henry 229

  Cavendish, Lord George 101

  Caxton, William 51, 119, 134

  Cayley, Sir George 101

  Chamberlain, Neville 134

  Chambers, Sir William 73

  Channon, Paul 179

  Chantrey, Sir Francis 26

  Chaplin, Charlie 93, 241

  Charles I 52, 81, 108, 109, 113, 115, 117, 126, 222, 224

  Charles II 4, 7, 73, 81, 82, 103, 105, 107, 109, 112, 117, 124, 140, 147, 174, 180, 245, 247

  Charles, Prince of Wales 40, 104, 120, 186

  Charlotte, Queen 92, 108

  Charrington, Frederick 168

  Chaucer, Geoffrey 9, 13, 47, 73, 123

  Cheyne, Lady Jayne 178

  Childs, Maurice 197

  Chippendale, Thomas 81

  Chopin, Frederic 32

  Christian, Fletcher 147

  Christie, Agatha 151

  Christie, John 42, 190, 216

  Christie, Linford 200

  Churchill, Sir Winston 33, 40, 98, 119, 120, 126

  Clapton, Eric 181

  Clarence, Duke of 104, 140

  Claridge, William 98

  Clarke, William Tierney 196

  Clayton, Revd William ‘Tubby’ 10

  Cleese, John 238

  Cleland, John 55

  Cleves, Anne of 109, 141, 174, 251

  Coke, William 110

  Colefax, Lady 132

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 246

  Colet, Dean of St Paul’s 40

  Collins, Canon John 48

  Compton, Bishop 195

  Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 77, 150

  Condell, Henry 33

  Congreve, Sir William 252

  Conran, Terence 183

  Constable, John 227

  Constantine, Emperor 15

  Cook, Captain James 149, 152, 167, 229, 239, 245

  Cook, Elizabeth 229

  Cope, Sir Walter 188

  Coverdale, Miles 5

  Coward, Noel 93

  Cowper, William 9

  Cranmer, Archbishop Thomas 223, 224

  Cranmer, Sir Thomas 32

  Crapper, Thomas 181

  Craven, Lord 195

  Crippen, Dr 42

  Crisp, Sir Nicholas 198

  Crocker, John 107

  Cromwell, Oliver 32, 73, 87, 117, 124, 168, 208, 221

  Cromwell, Richard 86

  Cromwell, Thomas 35, 141, 169, 209, 224

  Crosby, Sir John 15

  Cruise, Tom 143

  Cubitt, Thomas 133

  Cumming, Commander Mansfield 116

  Cunard, Lady 93

  Cunard, Samuel 180

  Curtis, Richard 190

  Curzon, Cynthia 93

  Dali, Salvador 226

  Damon, Matt 228

  Dance the Elder, George 48

  Dance the Younger, George 32, 48

  Dangerfield, Edmund 84

  Dare, Virginia 55

  Darwin, Charles 92, 187

  Dashwood, Sir Francis 21

  Davies, Ray 227

  Davison, Emily 127

  Davison, Monkhouse 11

  de Breaute, Falkes 218, 230

  de Burley, Sir Simon 140

  de Calonne, Charles Alexander 102

  de Colechurch, Peter 6

  de Ferranti, Sebastian 254

  de la Warre, Lord 54

  de Menezes, Jean Charles 230

  de Montfort, Simon 125

  de Valois, Catherine 238

  De Veil, Colonel Thomas 86

  de Waleis, Henry 169

  de Worde, Wynkyn 51, 55

  Deans, Mickey 182

  Defoe, Daniel 14, 20, 52, 246

  Dench, Judi 189

  Denmark, Anne of 247

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bsp; Derby, Lord 113

  Diana, Princess of Wales 109, 185, 186

  Dickens, Charles 11, 21, 56, 65, 66, 72, 77, 107, 148, 150, 151, 182, 188

  Dickens, Monica 199

  Dire Straits 254

  Disraeli, Benjamin 24, 58, 87, 92, 102, 168, 251

  Dixon, Joseph 212

  Doggett, Thomas 12

  Dolland, John 166

  Donne, John 39, 54, 55, 86

  Dors, Diana 135

  Douglas, Lord Alfred 74, 99

  Doulton, John 194, 220

  Dowding, Sir Hugh 72

  Downey Jr., Robert 143

  Downing, Sir George 117

  D’Oyly Carte, Richard 74, 98

  Drake, Sir Francis 67, 244

  Drake, William 60

  Drummond, Edmund 121

  Dryden, John 131

  Du Cane, Edmund 200

  Dwight, John 194

  Earnshaw, Thomas 66

  Eccleston, Christopher 212

  Ecclestone, Bernie 185

  Ekland, Britt 135

  Edward I 9, 24, 64, 77, 86, 124, 127, 139, 168

  Edward II 126

  Edward III 239

  Edward IV 124, 140, 247

  Edward the Confessor 32, 122, 123, 125, 129

  Edward V 123, 124, 140

  Edward VI 247

  Edward VII 108, 112, 221

  Edward VIII 123

  Edward, Prince of Wales 96

  Effingham, Lord Howard of 245

  Eisenhower, General 40

  Elgar, Edward 28

  Elgar, Sir Edward 84

  Eliot, George 176, 216

  Eliot, T.S. 177

  Elizabeth I 23, 54, 67, 109, 129, 173, 244, 247

  Elizabeth II 8, 40, 45, 101

  Elizabeth, Queen Mother 104, 126

  Ellington, Duke 83

  Elphinstone, Mrs 95

  Elwes, Simon 183

  Ely, Bishop of 64

  Epstein, Jacob 135

  Epstein, Sir Jacob 178, 210

  Erkenwald, Bishop 194

  Escoffier, Auguste 74

  Ethelbert, King 38

  Ethelred the Unready 6

  Eugenie, Empress 98

  Evans, Dame Edith 85

  Evelyn, John 31, 167, 220, 245

  Fagan, Michael 104

  Fairbanks, Douglas 93

  Faithfull, Marianne 176

  Faraday, Michael 99, 160

  Farquhar, George 81

  Farrell, Terry 219

  Fawkener, Sir Everard 216

  Fawkes, Guy 6, 41, 117, 126, 127

  Fayed, Mohamed Al 195

  Fielding, Henry 46, 86

  Finch, Peter 202

  Fisher, Bishop 6, 10, 140

  Fitzgerald, Ella 201

  Fitzjames, Bishop 194

  Fitzroy, Admiral Robert 187

  Flambard, Ranulf 140

  Flamsteed, John 249

  Flanagan, Bud 166

  Fleming, Eve 179

  Fleming, Ian 111, 134, 161, 179

  Fletcher, WPC 113

  Follett, Barbara 179

  Follett, Ken 179

 

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