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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

When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions

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      Publisher: The History Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/09/2022
      ISBN13: 9781803990613, 978-1803990613
      ISBN10: 1803990619

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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