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

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

© 2011 The History Press (Ebook): 9780752470696

Release date

Ebook: 16 September 2011