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When Did Big Ben First Bong? David Long

When Did Big Ben First Bong? By David Long

When Did Big Ben First Bong? by David Long


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From the truth about Handel's ugly ears to hippos running wild in Trafalgar Square, it's all in When Did Big Ben First Bong?, the ultimate trivia guide to the greatest city on Earth.

When Did Big Ben First Bong? Summary

When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth by David Long

Millions live there, millions more visit each year - but how many really know London?

Find out:

  • How New York's famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square
  • When Primrose Hill almost gained a pyramid even larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
  • Why about 640 people came to be drowned in the Thames in a single night
  • What the royal family might do to escape London if the balloon ever goes up

About David Long

Writer and journalist DAVID LONG has regularly appeared in The Times and the London Evening Standard, as well as on TV and radio. As well as being an award-winning ghostwriter, he has written a number of books on London, including Spectacular Vernacular, Tunnels, Towers & Temples, and the highly successful Little Book of London.

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GOR013684967
9781803990613
1803990619
When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth by David Long
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The History Press Ltd
2022-09-29
192
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