Sunday Best
December 30, 2016 - 2 CommentsI’m now posting nuggets of triviality every Sunday. Each post will have a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information.
They may be read on a weekly basis or one could dip in and out, either when collating questions for a pub quiz; bore your colleagues at work; or just to send yourself off to sleep.
London has no edges
May 23, 2014 - (0) commentsIt’s only when reaching the central core you realise the structure’s uniqueness, for running up its centre is a lift that is only means of reaching the viewing platform, and the only viable way of escaping in the event of a fire.
Run for the Hills
February 28, 2014 - (0) commentsOn the night of 7th January 1928 the Embankment wall collapsed near Lambeth Bridge, right opposite the Tate. Flood water poured across the road destroying homes and forcing local residents in one of London’s most deprived areas to swim for their lives.
Jump on a bus
February 18, 2014 - 2 CommentsOne of my favourite London films is Brannigan, starring John Wayne as a Chicago detective. It is as if Visit London had commissioned Paul Greengrass to direct a travel documentary aimed at American tourists.
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
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Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
We challenge our contributor to reply to ten devilishly probing questions about their London and we don’t take “Sorry Gov” for an answer. Everyone sitting in the hot seat will face the same questions [...]
So why is this large roundabout with its inverted green horse, used by locals as a respite from Primark called Marble Arch? [...]
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
The producers would have to be possessed with the tenacity and belief in their project, as any aspiring student of The Knowledge, to achieve their badge [...]
She was, truth be told, not the least bit extraordinary in any way, except this: she had a great deal of love in her. [...]
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
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They never taught me any of that at Hornchurch Grammar School!
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George Washington's statue in Trafalgar Square is rested upon 'America
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Amazingly since your 'prescient' article this exact scenario is playin
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I think you might have omitted Henry Tate's edifice on Millbank. He ce
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As usual a brilliant trivia article from Gibson. I totally disagree wi