The London Companion

by Jo Swinnerton

If you love London, then this is your book, mate. Within these pages are hundreds of facts, figures, stories, quotes, jokes, and anecdotesfrom its earliest times, when hippos swam the Thames and elephants lived in Trafalgar Square, right up to the present day. Find out whose head fell off London Bridge into his daughter s lap, what goes on at the Horseshoe and Faggott Cutting Ceremony, who sold Buckingham Palace to a tourist, which Londoner embalmed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861057997
• ISBN13: 9781861057990
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Robson Books
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Great details for London-philes

Fans of "Schott's Original Miscellany" will relish this book, which contains a host of trivia about London in a similar format to that original. Do you want to know which pubs are haunted? The original names and dates of establishment of various tube stations? Where Marx and Gandhi lived while in town? What are the most unusual items ever left behind on a bus or subway? (The list includes a vasectomy kit and two human skulls.) Then this is the book for you. It may be crass and perhaps even un-British to say so, but its wit and brevity make it perfect for your loo bookshelf, if you see what I mean.