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Some of the great stories and places from historic London.

TOP 10 HISTORICAL RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:

1. London's Smallest Pub, U Decide?	2. Secret Tunnels - 100 feet down	3. The First Coffee Shop in London	4. The exact centre of London	5. Bridge House
6. The worst street in London	7. Barmy Balmes House	8. The Turkish Baths	9. Tyburn Convent	10. Spiral Escalator

MORE HISTORICAL SIGHTS:

11. Dr John Snow's Pump @ Broadwick Street, Soho, London
12. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
13. Syon House & Gosford Park @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
14. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
15. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
16. Soho...Fruit and Veg...Porn @ Berwick Street
17. Henry VIII's wine cellar @ Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London
18. London's Oldest Terraced Houses @ 52-55 Newington Green
19. Walnut Tree House @ 500 High Street, Leyton
20. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
21. The Clerk's Well @ Well Court, Clerkenwell, London
22. Jack Straw's Castle @ North End Way , London
23. M. Manze...pie and mash @ 87 Tower Bridge Road
24. Headstone Manor @ Pinner View, Middlesex
25. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
26. The River Lea Coppermill @ Copper Mill Lane, Walthamstow
27. London's Most Male Street @ Panton Street, Haymarket
28. Site of Lord Byrons famous duel @ 100 Pall Mall, London
29. So What's It Called? @ 250 Havistock Hill
30. The World's First Tube Line @ Off Faringdon Road
31. The Old Dispensary @ 30 Romford Rd, Newham
32. Queen Vic's Hubby Hall @ Kensington Gore
33. Wimbledon, Lawn Tennis Club @ Church Road, Wimbledon
34. Wapping Old Stairs @ Nr Wapping high Street
35. Hatton Garden....Eyes Wide Shut @ Hatton Garden, London
36. The Lady Well Spring @ 148 Ladywell Road, Ladywell, Lewisham
37. Linley Sambourne House @ 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, London
38. Berezovsky's Stanley House @ Stanley House, Chelsea, London
39. Captain Kidd Public House @ Off Wapping Rose Garden
40. Home to the Daily Courant @ Fleet Street
41. Sutton House @ Sutton House, Hackney, London
42. A barbers with a secret @ 156 Caledonian Road
43. The Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
44. Topham Beauclerk's house @ Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London
45. St James Leprosy @ St James' Palace
46. Kingsway Tunnels - 110 feet down @ Chancery Lane & Kingsway...
47. Batman.....at St Pancras @ King's Cross/St. Pancras Station
48. A ghostly Bricklayer @ South Black Lion Lane
49. Charlton House: Lusty Ghost @ Charlton Road, Charlton, London
50. The Water Rats @ 328 Grays Inn Road, London
51. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
52. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
53. Forty Hall @ Forty Hill, Enfield
54. Cleopatra's Needle @ Victoria Embankment, near Golden Jubilee Bridges
55. Henry VIIIs Kennels @ Isle of Dogs
56. A Pint and a Perm @ 38 Maddox Street
57. Green Pond Road Stadium @ Green Pond Road, Walthamstow
58. The Spaniard's Inn @ Spaniards Road, Hampstead
59. The Red Lion @ 23 Crown Passage, Off Pall Mall
60. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
61. The Samuel Gurney Memorial @ Broadway, Stratford, London
62. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
63. The Walthamstow Windmill @ Oak Hill Gardens, Walthamstow
64. The downfall of Wanstead House @ Wanstead Park, Wanstead
65. The Grenadier and it's Ghosts @ 18 Wilton Row, Chelsea
66. Not a nice way to go @ London Bridge
67. A Park once filled with Vice @ Whetstone Park, Camden
68. St John's Gate @ Clerkenwell Road
69. Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' @ 22 Cleveland Street
70. Black Cap @ 171 Camden High Street, London
71. The Phoney Houses @ 23-24 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
72. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
73. The Coal Hole @ 91 Strand, Westminster, London
74. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
75. Radio London: Handels Past @ 35-36 Marylebone High Street, London
76. Leighton House & Arab Hall @ Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road
77. The 'Portable' Crosby Hall @ Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
78. Parliament Hill Park, But Why? @ Parliament Hill
79. Harcourt House's Odd Duke @ Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, London
80. Ancient Hunting Cry In London @ Soho
81. Old Retail and plenty of Tea @ 216 The Strand
82. John Wilkes' House Riots @ 35 Grosvenor Square
83. Wanstead Park's Grotto @ Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park
84. London's oldest parish church @ West Smithfield, London
85. Medieval Lords At Earls Court @ Earls Court Tube Station
86. Traditional & Jolly Old @ 54 Whitehall
87. Artist James Barry died here @ 36 Castle Street, Oxford Street, London
88. Friday Hill House @ 7 Simmons Lane, Chingford
89. Little Welsh Chapel.... @ Eastcastle Street
90. Punch and Judy Birthplace @ St Pauls Portico, Westminster
91. The Two Puddings @ 27 Broadway, Stratford
92. The Volunteer @ 247 Baker Street
93. Sir Hugh Myddelton's Statue @ Threadneedle Street
94. Lock & Co...Historical Hats @ 6 St. James's Street
95. A Right Royal Guest List @ Westminster Abbey
96. The Painted Hall @ Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
97. The London Wall @ London Wall
98. Prospect of Whitby @ 57 Wapping Wall
99. The Ancient House @ Walthamstow Village, London
100. Lord Shaftesbury - A.K.A. - Eros @ Piccadilly Circus
101. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
102. A Garden with a Gruesome Past @ West Smithfield Garden
103. Oliver Cromwell's resting place @ 72 High Holborn, Holborn
104. Tower Hill @ Nr Tower Hill Tube Station
105. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
106. Seven Stars @ 53-54 Carey St, City of London
107. 1st petrol car was built here @ 1 Connaught Road, Walthamstow, London
108. Notre Dame de France @ 5 Leicester Place
109. Rule Brittania in The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, W6, London
110. Salutation @ 154 King Street, Hammersmith

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