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100 unusual facts about London


1774 English cricket season

On Friday 25 February 1774, the Laws of Cricket were revised by a committee meeting at the Star and Garter on Pall Mall in London.

1956 in France

10 September - Guy Mollet visits London and proposes a merger of France and the United Kingdom.

Ahl Al Esheg

the video is in black and white, it was directed in London and shows all the British people walking reverse while Diana Haddad is walking in the right way and singing.

Alfred Cope

Cope was raised in Lambeth (Waterloo), London, the eldest of eleven children born to Alfred and Margaret.

Alfred De Courcy

Abbey Cyclone, The Thunderer, The Thunderer Patent, LYR, L&NWR, LMS, GNR, Army ordnance mark 1916, 1917, 1918

Alloclita brachygrapta

The species was described on the basis of two males in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London.

Ann Baynard

Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - June 12, 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.

Anne Dodd

Nathaniel and Anne set up their shop at the sign of the Peacock outside Temple Bar in late 1711, and the shop would operate successfully for nearly half a century afterward.

Antonio Puigblanch

Antonio Puigblanch died on September 25, 1840, at 51 Johnson Street (now Cranleigh Street), Somers Town, London.

Archdeacon of Hampstead

The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London.

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll

The Duke established an estate at Whitton Park, Whitton in Middlesex in 1722 on land that had been enclosed some years earlier from Hounslow Heath.

Arthur Llewellyn Basham

As a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous Indian historians, including Professors R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar and V.S.Pathak

Bassel al-Assad

Bassel Assad's death led to his lesser-known brother Bashar al-Assad, then undertaking postgraduate training in ophthalmology in London, assuming the mantle of President-in-waiting.

BBC News Online

The development and site design teams are based in BBC White City, both in the White City area.

Ben Levene

Later he was awarded the University of London postgraduateship in 1960-61, and then a Boise scholarship in 1961-62.

Bernard Barham Woodward

He was a member of staff at the British Museum, and then the Natural History Museum.

Bolton and Leigh Railway

Sans Pareil was used on the railway until 1844, when it was sold to the Coppull Colliery, Chorley and used as a stationary engine until 1863 when it was presented to the Science Museum by John Hick.

Brunei Investment Agency

Brunei investors bought The Dorchester on Park Lane in London in 1985 for US$50 million and in 1996 BIA formed the Dorchester Collection, a conglomerate of luxury hotels in UK, USA, France and Italy which includes it.

Carl Frederik Sørensen

His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens.

Chapman code

They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.

Charles Bridgeman

As Royal Gardener, Bridgeman tended – and in many cases, redesigned – the royal gardens at Windsor, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, St. James's Park and Hyde Park.

Charles Dieupart

In late 1707 Dieupart became involved in establishing an operatic project at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

Charles Douglas Moffatt (London, 5 July 1870 - Buenos Aires, 1 March 1953) was an English football player, considered one of the pioneers of the sport in Argentina.

Chelsea, Oklahoma

Chelsea was named after the area in London, England, by Charles Peach, a railroad official who was a native of that city.

Chytra kirki

The specific name kirki is in honor of explorer John Kirk (1832-1922), who has donated various other specimen of snails (not this species) to the Natural History Museum.

CKGB-FM

The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of The Times of London.

Constantines

From their hometown of Guelph the band relocated to London, Ontario and then to Toronto, where in 2001 they released their self-titled first album.

Consumerism

Marketplaces expanded as shopping centres, such as the New Exchange, opened in 1609 by Robert Cecil in the Strand.

Coup de glotte

A very resounding condemnation of the coup de glotte as a singing technique was given by Victor Maurel, in a public lecture at the Lyceum Theatre in July 1892.

CS Mackay-Bennett

CS Mackay-Bennett was a cable repair ship registered in London, England, owned by the Commercial Cable Company.

Dalby's Carminative

Dalby's Carminative was a medicinal product formula originally made by James Dalby of London, England, in the late 1770s.

Double Chess

J. R. Capablanca, who had experimented with different forms of chess in the 1920s, found the game "remarkably interesting", and a four-game match was held with G. Maróczy on 22–26 April 1929 at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

Elisha Carter

He is Head Chef at the The Landau restaurant located in The Langham, London.

Expansion of Amsterdam since the 19th century

This part of Amsterdam would become a neighborhood with the grandeur of Paris or London of that time.

Food for the Brain Foundation

The best known and launching campaign of the Food for the Brain Foundation was a pilot study carried out at Cricket Green special education school in Merton, London.

Frankland-Payne-Gallwey baronets

The following year he became a director of the British Bloodstock Agency plc, in London's Pall Mall, retiring in 1997.

Frederik Vermehren

His works were exhibited at the exhibition "Danish Painters" at Guildhall, London, in 1907.

Gabriel Tschumi

In retirement, Tschumi went to live in Wimbledon where he wrote his memoirs, entitled Royal Chef: Recollections of a Life in Royal Households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary, which was published in 1954.

Garavi Gujarat

It claims to have been established in 1968, and is currently published in London by The Asian Media & Marketing Group.

Gordon Tait

Gordon Thomas Tait (12 March 1912 – 3 October 1999) was a British architect, active in London.

Greenwich Associates

Based in Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, and Singapore, the firm's clients include 250 global financial service companies.

Harold Darke

He became organist at St Michael's Cornhill in 1916, and stayed there until 1966, leaving only briefly in 1941 to deputise for Boris Ord as Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge during World War II.

Harry Firth

That year he also led a three car Ford Australia assault on the inaugural London–Sydney Marathon, preparing a trio of Ford XR Falcon GT's for the event which started on 24–25 November at Crystal Palace in London and traveled through Europe, the Middle East and South Asia before arriving in Bombay, India on 1–2 December.

Henry Burling

He was born in Stratford, Essex, England on 1 May 1801 to Thomas Burling, a soap maker, and Joanna Pike.

Henry Trivick

He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, later teaching lithography there.

Hilda Montalba

The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, with four daughters, all artists.

Hugo Biermann

Two years later he attended the British Naval Staff Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and was appointed as naval attaché at South African House, London with the rank of Commander.

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

Set in the north London suburb of Palmers Green in the 1970s, the story opens with Colette Jones attending the funeral of her elder brother's wife, followed by her failed attempts to save him from excessive drinking.

InnoPath Software

innoPath is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with international offices worldwide, including Nacka, Sweden; Beijing, China; Richmond, London, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea.

Ivan Vedar

He studied in a college in Malta, where he picked up many languages, he worked as a sailor on an English ship, travelling between London and Melbourne, he was an interpreter in Turkish institutions in Tsarigrad, he taught languages in İzmir to the sons of Turkish notables (including Midhat Pasha).

Jack Reagan

O'Regan worked as a tenant farmer during his early years in Ireland, before he moved to London in 1852.

James Bainham

According to Foxe, More imprisoned and flogged him in his house at Chelsea, and then sent him to the Tower of London to be racked, in the hope of discovering other heretics by his confession; this is doubted by later authors.

Jason Leonard

Until 5 August 2011, when it was renamed "Southend City on Sea", a class 357 EMU train (number 357 003) operated by c2c on the London, Tilbury and Southend line had the nameplate "Jason Leonard".

JATO Dynamics

Its Global Headquarters are in Harrow, London, UK with offices in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands and USA.

John Burns Hynd

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925.

John O'London's Weekly

While McCourt is delivering magazines to shops for the company Eason's, his boss learns from the Irish government that copies of John O'London's Weekly must be censored because they contain an article about birth control.

John Pearse

In his teens he played the guitar and banjo in a Jazz band, then moved to London in the 1950s where he made a living as a guitar teacher and musician.

John Vicars

John Vicars (1582, London-12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.

John Warrington Rogers

Warrington was the eldest son of the John Warrington Rogers, of London, entered as a student to the Middle Temple in June 1848, and was called to the bar in November 1846.

La Femme Piège

At the same time in London, Jill is working on an article about the Afro-Pakistian and Zuben'Ubisch minority conflicts in the suburbs of Chelsea.

Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd

He took out £220,000 and used it for gambling at the Playboy Club, 45 Park Lane, London which was owned by Karpnale Ltd.

London Farmers' Markets

The first Farmers' Market set up by LFM in London was in Islington in 1999, quickly followed by Farmers' Markets in Notting Hill, Blackheath, Peckham and Swiss Cottage.

London, Ohio

It is the second largest community in the United States named London.

Man and Myth

In support of the albums' release Harper undertook a short, three date, UK tour, performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London, (22 October), the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (25 October) and the Colston Hall, Bristol (27 October).

Maria Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

She married, James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, eldest son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russel on 7 January 1869 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England.

Mary Meade

In 1949, she married Ted Grouya in Paris and embarked on a European career that included stints in the lavish production Gay Paris at the Casino de Paris, and at the Pigalle Club in London.

Maud Babcock

At other times in her professional life, she studied at the University of Chicago and schools in London and Paris; served as president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech; and, for twenty years, a trustee for the Utah State School for Deaf and Blind.

Medical slang

There is an annual round-up of the usage of medical slang by British physician Dr. Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital, London.

MK Electric

By 1923 demand for these new products was growing rapidly and new production facilities were built in Edmonton, London.

Mona Brand

During the five and a half years she was in the UK (1948–1953) Brand was active in London's Unity Theatre which shared common views with the New Theatre in Australia.

National Bingo Game

In November 1997, the first Gold Prize winner won the first "Big'N" prize of £556,000 by getting 6 of the 7 Big'N numbers, in Gala Club, East Ham, London.

North Quay

North Quay, London proposed building complex on Canary Wharf, London

O'Higgins Park

In 1870, the government gave the northern portion of the terrain to the rich heir and philanthropist Luis Cousiño, who inspired by the parks he saw in Europe —like Hyde Park in London or the Bois de Boulogne in Paris— decided to give one to his own city.

Ohio State Route 665

The western terminus of this state highway is at a signalized intersection that marks the confluence of U.S. Route 42, State Route 38, State Route 56 and State Route 142 in downtown London.

Osman Türkay

After completing his studies at a private school in Kyrenia, Türkay went to London where he read philosophy and studied journalism, after which he was employed on the staff of several magazines and newspapers.

Peter Desbarats

Currently, he lives in a heritage home with his actress wife, Hazel, in the East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District in London, Ontario, Canada.

Peter Thomas Dunican

As senior partner at Arup, Dunican is credited with overseeing much of its growth from a single office in London in 1946 to a firm of over 7000 staff now.

Pyralis pictalis

The term "Poplar" in its common name does not refer to the trees, but to Poplar, London, where type specimen – from such an introduction – was caught.

Ralph Tubbs

Well known amongst the buildings he designed was the Dome of Discovery at the successful Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London in 1951.

Richard Farmer

When in London he usually resided at the house of Dr. Anthony Askew, the eminent physician, in Queen Square, Bloomsbury.

Robert Warren Stewart

After graduation he studied law in London, but the spiritual crisis of his conversion occurred at Richmond, Surrey when he was just about to become a lawyer.

Samuel Rowland Fisher

Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London.

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Fisher eventually took over most of the business from his father and brothers, continuing for the rest of his life to run the packet line to London.

Scala Browne Agency

Born in London in 1940, Mim Scala went to school at St Augustins, Hammersmith and Chelsea Art School at Manresa Rd, Chelsea.

Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet

The National Gallery opened to the public in May 1824 in Angerstein's former house on Pall Mall, and Beaumont's paintings entered its collection the following year.

Skënder Rizaj

He has done extensive research in Turkish Archives in Istanbul, and the British Library in London.

Speakers' Corner, Singapore

In response to these free speech concerns, Speakers' Corner was created as local adaptation of the Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London, in 2000.

St James's Club

When the pioneer of photography William Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was elected in 1825 to the club at 106 Pall Mall, London, it was using that name.

Susanne van Soldt Manuscript

The Susanne van Soldt Manuscript is a keyboard anthology dated 1599 consisting of 33 pieces copied by or for a young Flemish or Dutch girl living in London.

Table entertainment

Perhaps the master of the table entertainment was Charles Mathews, who began his show At Home or Mathews at Home, in London's Lyceum Theatre in 1808.

The Lambs

In 1868, The Lambs was founded in London by actors, led by John Hare, the first Shepherd, looking to socialize with like-minded people.

The Vise

Produced in London and hosted by Australian actor Ron Randell, the suspense series depicted people unwittingly trapped in "the vise" of fate due to their own actions, usually of a criminal nature.

Thomas L. Cleave

Between 1922-27, he attended medical schools at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and St Mary's Hospital, London, London, achieving MRCS and LRCP.

Travelling Riverside Blues

English rock band Led Zeppelin's version of this song was recorded at the BBC studios in Aeolian Hall on June 24, 1969, by engineer John Waters, which took place during the band's UK Tour of Summer 1969.

U Saw

In November 1941, he travelled to London in an unsuccessful attempt to gain a promise from Winston Churchill that Burma be granted Dominion status after the Second World War; at the same time, he made contact with the Japanese to secure his own political future should Japan invade Burma.

V-Ships

V.ships is a ship management company, part of V.Group Holdings which is registered in Monaco but headquartered in London, England; and has over 70 offices in 34 different countries.

Violet Vanbrugh

Back in England in 1891, she joined Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum Theatre as Anne Boleyn in his successful revival of King Henry VIII.

Wildsurf

Ash said of the video: "Howard took us to the Natural History Museum in London. There we shot performance against giant video screens and metallic globes. We also headed to East London for more performance shots in the Docklands area. The video follows a sci-fi looking chick obsessed with water. She has some kinda weird aqua car and then ends up surfing a tsunami which destroys the city. The final special effect shot is so tacky and crap it's laughable!"

Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Its seat is the Merchant Taylors' Hall between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill, a site it has occupied since at least 1347.


Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan

Mr Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan participated in Training Course on Judicial Ethics organised by Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA), London in June 2009 Also, he visited Morocco in 2010 after an official invitation and met the Chief Justice of Morocco and Minister of Law & Justice .

Andrew Ducrow

Ducrow is buried on the Main (or Centre) Avenue at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England near the tomb of the Duke of Sussex, one of the most desirable burial plots of the time.

Ayton, Scottish Borders

The Scottish diarist and author James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson passed through Ayton on his journey to London on 15 November 1762.

Bailey's Hotel

Millennium Bailey's Hotel, London -historic hotel in London established in 1876.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Ben O'Donoghue

In 1996 O'Donoghue travelled to the United Kingdom where he worked at The River Café before moving to become Head Chef at the Monte's Club in Knightsbridge with Jamie Oliver.

Benjamin Frobisher

They were among the shareholders who got their fur trade goods from the London merchant John Strettell.

Bootham Crescent

The ground is located just over a mile away from York railway station, which lies on the East Coast Main Line between London's King's Cross station and Edinburgh's Waverley Station.

Cæsar Clement

Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath. (London, 1885), I, 497-8;

CESNUR

Eileen Barker, professor in sociology at the London School of Economics

Chinese exonyms

"London Heathrow Airport" is usually rendered in Chinese text as 倫敦希斯路機場 (Lúndūn Xīsīlù Jīchǎng), with the English pronunciation of 'London' fairly accurate, and of 'Heathrow' less accurate: literally as Chinese this means "kinship, honest" (for London), "hope/rare, given/this, road" (for Heathrow), "aircraft, field", with the last syllable of "Heathrow" rendered as "lu" although the more accurate "lo" and "lou" are known Chinese words.

Ching Ling Foo

The Christopher Nolan movie, The Prestige (film), depicts a Chinese magician working in London, who performs a similar trick with a water bowl.

Deerstalker

In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.

Deirdre Cartwright

As a solo artist she has played with the American guitarist Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, played throughout Europe, has seen the weekly jazz club she co-runs, 'Blow The Fuse', become one of the most popular in London, and has been a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3.

Dr. Strangely Strange

The group disbanded in May 1971, after playing a concert with Al Stewart at London's Drury Lane Theatre.

Elaine Dundy

As part of her research for the Presley book, Dundy moved from her luxurious suites in London and New York to live for five months in Presley's birthplace of Tupelo, Mississippi.

Esther de Berdt

Esther de Berdt was born in London, England, into a family descended of Protestant refugees from Ypres, who had fled the "Spanish Fury" led by the Duke of Alba.

Grooveradio

London's Groove is an Independent Local Radio station based in London, created by media group TCPMEDIA in mid-2008, who subsequently also launched other stations throughout the UK.

Guy A. Sautter

John Arlott (Hrsg.): The Oxford companion to sports & games. Oxford University Press, London 1975

Israeli lira

Israel inherited the Palestinian pound but, shortly after the establishment of the state, new banknotes were issued by the London-based Anglo-Palestine bank of the Zionist movement.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

Jane Symons

Unusually for a tabloid health writer, Symons was praised in the British Medical Journal, where Professor David Colquhoun of the Department of Pharmacology, at University College London wrote that "It isn’t often that a Murdoch tabloid produces a better account of a medical problem than anything the Department of Health’s chief scientific advisor can muster.".

Jessops

The relaunch of the Oxford Street store in London received considerable media interest and was attended by celebrities including the actor James Corden.

John Langstaff

Several of his early recordings were made in London, with noted producer George Martin.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

Kitty Kirkpatrick

In 1805, the year of her father's death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.

Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant

He succeeded his grandfather John Oliphant, 2nd Lord Oliphant, in 1516, and was one of the Scottish nobles taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss on 25 November 1542, reaching Newark on 15 December, on the way to London.

Linzi Stoppard

In September 2010, Linzi held Fashion For The Brave in London for Help for Heroes, the Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund, and ABF - The Soldiers Charity.

London's Brilliant

It was released in 1993 as the second single from her debut solo album Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears and was written by Elvis Costello and his then wife Cait O'Riordan.

Markyate Priory

The priory of Markyate was founded in 1145, in a wood which was then part of the parish of Caddington, and belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Max Sørensen

During his tenure there, he worked as Attaché Embassy in Bern and in 1944 as Secretary of Legation in London.

Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

The 1850s saw the arrival of some 300 Jewish families from London and the Province of Posen, Prussia to Melbourne, prompting the construction of a new larger synagogue on the Bourke Street site.

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Elena Pavlovna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 10 June 1884 - Sesto Fiorentino, 4 April 1959), married firstly in Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1903 (divorced in 1907) Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov (Vartemiagui, 7 September 1881 - London, 13 August 1935) and married secondly in Dresden in June 1907 Nikolai Alexeievich Pavlov (Tambov, 9 May 1866 - Vanves, 31 January 1934))

Rhondda Gillespie

With the actor Michael Gough she also gave the first complete performance in London of Liszt's dramatic recitations.

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

Robert Morrison MacIver

His work in that field was distinguished by his acumen, his philosophical understanding, and extensive study of the major pioneering works of Durkheim, Toennies, Max and Alfred Weber, Simmel and others in the British Museum Library in London, while resident as a student in Oxford.

Sinan Al Shabibi

On February 2, 2012 Zaha Hadid joined Dr Sinan Al‐Shabibi at a ceremony in London to sign the agreement between the Central Bank of Iraq and Zaha Hadid Architects for the design stages of the new CBI Headquarters building.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, a wealthy London merchant and member of the British East India Company, in 1643.

Some Other Guy

The song was part of The Beatles' live repertoire in 1962-63, and a recording was made on 19 June 1963 during a live BBC radio performance by the band at The Playhouse Theatre, London.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

Stephen Caudel

Toured extensively (Britain, Germany and Japan) including Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Markneukirchen Guitar Festival, Karuizawa Music Festival and 3 nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall as Special Guest of Art Garfunkel.

Stuart McQuarrie

McQuarrie trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow and soon became a highly popular actor amongst Edinburgh theatre goers before moving to London where he has played prominent roles in more controversial, new dramas by playwrights such as Sarah Kane and Anthony Neilson, amongst others.

TANLA

Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.

Tharros

Most of the artifacts can be found in the Archaeological Museum at Cagliari, in the Antiquarium Arborense, the Archaeological Museum of the town of Cabras and in the British Museum, London.

The Jeff Beck Group

The first Jeff Beck Group formed in London in early 1967 and included guitarist Jeff Beck, vocalist Rod Stewart, rhythm guitarist Ronnie Wood, with bass players and drummers changing regularly.

Thomas Pakington

Thomas Pakington was the son of Robert Pakington a London mercer and an M.P. for the City in 1534, who was murdered in London in 1537.

VH1 Europe

Though produced in Warsaw (Poland), VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, covering also the Middle East, South Africa and parts of Northern Africa.

William Parker Snow

He supported many good causes including services to the poor in London and marine safety, including the efforts of Samuel Plimsoll and proposals for harbours of refuge and a system of linked floating relief stations around the globe.

William Scroggs

Sir JF Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England (3 vols, London, 1883)

Yousef Gamal El-Din

On June 14, 2010 he became the third co-host of Capital Connection, joining Anna Edwards in London and Chloe Cho in Singapore.