London Trivia @CabbieBlog
Daily London trivia #LDNTrivia from a Licensed Black Cab Driver. I also witter on Twitter @londoncabbie and blog 7 days a week https://t.co/8zysBXbNbJ CabbieBlog.com London Joined July 2009-
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Cable Street is named after the local 18th century ropes and cable industry and was originally 608ft, the same lengh as a nautical cable #LDNTrivia
Arsenal Station is London’s only station named after a football club originally opened as Gillespie Road in 1906 and renamed Arsenal in 1932 #LDNTrivia
In 1940 from Room 36 at Brown’s Hotel the Dutch government in exile declared war on Japan as it wasn’t broadcast Japan was hardly terrified #LDNTrivia
Established in 1805 Truefitt and Hill of St. James’s Street remains the world’s oldest barbershop having served nine consecutive Monarchs #LDNTrivia
The London Cab Trade is the oldest regulated land passenger service in Britain licensed in 1654 - 150 years before the horse drawn bus #LDNTrivia
The equestrian statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square has the King facing his place of execution outside Banqueting House in Whitehall #LDNTrivia
The first horse drawn bus was introduced to London in July 1829 operating from Yorkshire Stingo Public House Old Marylebone Road to the Bank #LDNTrivia
Angel Lane in Stratford (very near Olympic site) was where the Beatles filmed video for Penny Lane - couldn’t be bothered to go to Liverpool #LDNTrivia
Corner of Lapstone Gardens/Mentmore Close, Kenton where Basil Fawlty thrashed his car with a tree, nowhere near the fictional coastal hotel #LDNTrivia
Westfield Stratford, the largest shopping centre in Europe, cost the equivalent of the GDP of the 25 world’s poorest countries to build #LDNTrivia
Smithfield Market incorporating three listed Victorian buildings is the largest wholesale meat market in Britain #LDNTrivia
St. Martin-in-the-Fields is the parish church of Buckingham Palace and any baby born at the Palace is entered into its church register #LDNTrivia
The 0 on 10 Downing Street’s front door is at an angle, in tribute to original door, whose 0 slipped due to poor fixing #LDNTrivia
The dome of the O2 weighs less than the air contained underneath it #LDNTrivia
On 16 April 1969 Princess Anne saw the hippy musical Hair at the Shaftsbury Theatre surprising as it featured a nude sequence set to music #LDNTrivia
On 15 April 1984 whilst making a TV appearance as one of the acts on Live From Her Majesty’s Theatre in London Tommy Cooper died on stage #LDNTrivia
London cabbies’ slang for Harley Street is “The Resistance” because doctors opposed the creation of the NHS. Parliament is “The Gasworks” #LDNTrivia
Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots never met but are entombed within yards of each other (one without her head on her shoulders) #LDNTrivia
In the cloisters of Westminster Abbey is Britain’s the oldest door, in good nick, considering it was made in 1050 before the Norman Conquest #LDNTrivia
The 1948 London Olympics were the first to use starting blocks. Before that runners pushed off from a hole in the track, dug with a trowel #LDNTrivia
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By 1883 Fleet Street’s newspapers produced 15 morning dailies, 9 evening papers and 383 weekly publications, of which 50 were local rags #LDNTrivia
On 24 January 1986 the Wapping dispute began, 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with News International #LDNTrivia
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just about managed to fit it all into one card just! doesn't feel real but iv done it! #gbkol
The phrase Mind the gap dates 1968 the recording broadcast was first done by Peter Lodge, who had a recording company in Bayswater
Been a busy few days... No not in the cab... Baby Sophie born late Christmas Eve. So proud of her and my wife.
On 6 April 1895 Oscar Wilde was arrested for gross indecency and sentenced to 2 years hard labour. At the time homosexuality was a crime
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