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The Londoner’s Almanac

The Londoner’s Almanac

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Title: The Londoner’s Almanac

Century, 27 Jun 1985

Paperback
ISBN-10: 0712609288
ISBN-13: 978-0712609289

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This was the first book I wrote on a computer – an Apple IIe. I have been loyal to Apple ever since.

Come back to this page soon – I plan to add a range of lists from the book. Meanwhile, this is a list of the lists:

Addresses

Advertising sites

Air raids & books destroyed

Airports

Albert Memorial

Animals, famous [see also zoo]

Archaeological finds

Banquet

Big Ben

Birds, commonest

Birds, rarest

Bit of London

Blue plaques

Books, best

Bridges & tunnels, Thames

Buildings, art deco

Buildings, best

Buildings, floodlit

Buildings, geologist’s

Buildings, missed

Buildings, most popular historic

Buildings, tallest

Buildings, worst

Buses

Cabmen’s shelters

Casualties

Cemeteries

Childhood heroes

Church, strange

Churches, haunted

City gates

Cleopatra’s needle time capsule

Clubs

Coade stone

College of arms

Company names

Cost of living

Courtesans

Crafts

Cruft’s winners

Customs

Daily telegraph questions

Deaths, strange

Department stores, vanished

Dinners, strange

Drinking fountains

Epitaphs

Eponyms, London

Evening classes

Explosions

Farms

Film titles – districts

Film titles – streets & squares

Fire brigade

Fires

Firsts

Fish in Thames

Geologist’s buildings

Gossip

Hairdressers’ names

Harrods’ requests

Haunted churches

Haunted pubs

Hollywood stars

Hotels, expensive

Jewels

Kings & queens buried in London

Laws

Letter boxes

Livery companies

Lloyds insurance

Londoners’ country of birth

Lost property

Miniature London

Monarchs buried in London

Murals

Murders

Museums & art galleries, postcards

Museums & art galleries, complaints

Museums & art galleries, popular

National Trust

Nursery rhymes

Oddities

Painters, American

Painters, famous London

Parks

Plants

Poems

Police

Population

Post

Post boxes

Potteries

Pubs, haunted

Pubs, strange names

Pubs, theme

Quotations

Recipes

Rendezvous

Rivers & canals

Rock stars, deaths of

Royal warrant holders

Saints

Ships on Thames

Shows, longest-running

Sieges

Songs

Sotheby’s auction records

Sotheby’s, personal items

Statues, American

Statues, nude

Statues, oddities

Statues, oldest

Stones

Street names, origin of

Street names, strange

Subterranean sites

Suicides

Sundials

Superstitions

Taxi drivers’ slang

Taxi facts

Telephone exchange names

Telephone exchanges

Telephones

Temperatures

Thames – bridges & tunnels

Thames – fish

Thames – reaches

Theatres, largest

Tourist expenditure

Underground

Views, best

Westminster abbey relics

Windmills

Words, London [see also eponyms]

Years, worst

Zoo adoption charges

Zoo animals, rarest