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
