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Best 10 Things To Do in Kensington and Chelsea
Guide to Markets in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
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5 Best Boutique Hotels in Soho, Mayfair and Fitzrovia
Our Favourite London Parks
10+ Date Night Ideas for Central London
5 Best Hostels in Central London
5 Places in London For Time Out
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Things to do at Christmas Time in London
5 Best Museums for Family Fun
20+ Things You Must Do In London
5 Unusual Museums in London
10 Best Tourist Attractions in London
The Best Markets to Visit in London
Recommendations for a Decadent Weekend in London
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Recommendations for a Cheap Weekend in London
5 Shops on Oxford Street You Must Visit
Best Things To Do In Covent Garden
24 Hours in Covent Garden

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Historic Sites

Sydney Smith Brown Plaque - Sydney Smith 1771-1845 author and wit lived here
Fowell Buxton And Edward Buxton Black Plaque - In this house 1840 - 1867 resided Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton and Edward North Buxton who took a prominent part in the preservation of Epping Forest for the use of the people The Women's section of the Borough of Leyton Ratepayers Association record their appreciation of that great service by this tablet. Erected August 19th 1930.
Annie Besant Blue Plaque - Annie Besant 1847-1933 social reformer lived here in 1874
Nahum Sokolow Blue Plaque - President of the World Zionist Organisation Dr Nahum Sokolow Statesman and Author Lived and Worked here from 1921 to 1936
Charles Dickens Blue Plaque - Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Author Stayed here in 1832
Samuel Smiles Blue Plaque - Samuel Smiles 1812-1904 author of Self Help lived here
Blue Plaque № 12760 - The first ever Pizza Express opened here
Terry-Thomas Blue Plaque - Terry-Thomas 1911-1990 Comedy actor lived here 1949-1981
Henry Austen And Jane Austen Blue Plaque - Jane Austen novelist, stayed with her brother Henry in a house on this site 1814-1815
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, And Michael Bentine Brushed Metal Plaque - Peter Sellers Spike Milligan Harry Secombe Michael Bentine The Goon Show 1951 - 1960 first exploded here
Abbey Street Bridge, London And George Thomas Landmann Blue Plaque - Bermondsey Abbey Street Bridge Designed by Colonel George Thomas Landmann Royal Engineers (1780-1854) The bridge is Grade II listed, and the central part was completed in 1836 for the London & Greenwich Railway, London's first railway line.
Alphonse Normandy Blue Plaque - Dr Alphonse Normandy (1809-1864) Analytical Chemist and Desalination Pioneer lived and worked here 1850-1859.
Blue Plaque № 41051 - A.V.Roe 1877 - 1958 Under these arches Alliott Verdon Roe assembled his AVRO No. 1 triplane. In July 1909 he made the first all-British powered flight from Walthamstow Marsh.
Robert Donat Blue Plaque - Robert Donat 1905-1958 actor lived here
Elizabeth David Blue Plaque - Elizabeth David 1913-1992 Cookery Writer lived and worked here 1947-1992
Robert Milligan Bronze Plaque - To perpetuate the memory of Robert Milligan a Merchant of London, to whose genius, perseverance and guardian care the surrounding great work principally owes it's design, accomplishment and regulation. The Directors and Proprietors, deprived by his death on the 21st May, 1809 on the continuance of his invaluable services, by their unanimous vote have caused this statue to be erected.
Royal Horticultural Society, John Hatchard, And Hatchards Brass Plaque - At Messrs. Hatchard's in a house on this site the Royal Horticultural Society was founded on the 7th March 1804
Charles Dickens Blue Plaque - Charles Dickens 1812-1870 writer, journalist and social reformer

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Trivia and Facts

The exact centre of London is marked by a plaque in the Church of St Martin's-in-the-Fields overlooking Trafalgar Square.

Evening Standard

The site of Tyburn Tree, London's infamous public gallows - where an estimated 50,000 people were hanged - is now a traffic island at the junction of Marble Arch and Edgware Road.

Evening Standard

It is illegal in London to have sex on a parked motorcycle, beat a carpet in a public park, or impersonate a Chelsea pensioner - the latter offence is still theoretically punishable by death.

Evening Standard

Quotes

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

Joan Collins

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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