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LSO St Lukes, formerly St Luke’s church in Old Street, was once nicknamed “Lousy Luke’s” due to the flea on the weathervane #LDNTrivia
On 7 December 1817 Captain Bligh from Lambeth was cast adrift from The Bounty by a band of mutineers #LDNTrivia
London cabbie George King founded the Aetherius Society to prevent the annihilation of Earth by improving cooperation with alien species #LDNTrivia
The Tudor frontage of St. Bartholemew The Great Church which had been covered was revealed after a Zeppelin raid on the City #LDNTrivia
The Bowler Hat is named after Mr Bowler who made it but Locks the Hatters call it the Coke after Mr Coke who ordered it #LDNTrivia
A clock tower in Market Road N7 is all that remains of the market which replaced Smithfield as London’s live cattle market in 1855 #LDNTrivia
Thomas Hardy is buried in Westminster Abbey without his heart which is in Dorset #LDNTrivia
In between Golders Green and Hampstead the tube slows down for the ghost station “Bull and Bush”, a station which was never built #LDNTrivia
Hidden under the Ministry of Defence are Cardinal Wolsey’s wine cellars from the Whitehall Palace which burned down in 1698 #LDNTrivia
Author George Bernard Shaw once spent an evening dancing round Fitzroy Square after watching an Italian dancer at the Alhambra Theatre #LDNTrivia
Bevis Marks synagogue is named from boundary marks of the Bishop of Bury St Edmonds’ house which was here in medieval times #LDNTrivia
On 26 November 1964 The Stones described in court as not a long-haired idiots but highly intelligent university men Mick was still fined £10 #LDNTrivia
On 25 November 1952 Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened in the West End still playing it has become the longest-running play of all time #LDNTrivia
The Sun and 13 Cantons in Soho is named after the 13 provinces (cantons) of Switzerland (streets around pub were once big watch-making area) #LDNTrivia
London’s surviving windmills can be found in Wandsworth, Brixton, Upminster and Wimbledon #LDNTrivia
The 17th century Seven Dials monument was removed as the thieves and prostitutes used to hang around it. The current replica dates to 1989 #LDNTrivia
No 10 Downing Street has two front doors, rotated to allow maintenance. The zero is at a slight angle to mimic an earlier one that slipped #LDNTrivia
In 1912 the first Royal Variety Show took place at the Palace Theatre. Queen Mary was shocked by male impersonator Vesta Tilley #LDNTrivia
Birdcage Walk was the site of the 17th century Royal Aviary. Diarist John Evelyn spotted “many curious kinds of poultry” here #LDNTrivia
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