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When Did Big Ben First Bong? : 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth

Millions live there, millions more visit each year – but how many really know London?

Find out:

- How New York's famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square

- When Primrose Hill almost gained a pyramid even larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops

- Why about 640 people came to be drowned in the Thames in a single night

- What the royal family might do to escape London if the balloon ever goes up


Author:

  • David Long

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 137 pages

Language:

English

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    David Long

    Writer and journalist David Long has regularly appeared in The Times and the London Evening Standard, as well as on TV and radio. He has written a number of books on London, including Spectacular Vernacular, Tunnels, Towers & Temples and the highly successful Little Book of London. He lives in Suffolk, England.

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