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The Duke of Wellington has the unique honour of having two equestrian statutes of him erected in central London #LondonTrivia
An Italian dishwasher at the Savoy Hotel was so inspired by the quality of the guests he started the company bearing his name - Guccio Gucci #LondonTrivia
Early rear view mirrors in taxis couldn’t be adjusted allegedly to prevent drivers from ogling the legs of their lady passengers #LondonTrivia
On 16 October 1959 Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp was born in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield #LondonTrivia
Camden painted yellow outlines of squatting dogs with arrows on its pavements telling dogs to use the gutter it’s not clear they understood #LondonTrivia
Pall Mall was the first street in England to be lit by gas by the splendidly named New Patriotic Imperial and National Light and Gas Company #LondonTrivia
Of the 700,000 dogs in London 10,000 each year end up at Battersea Dogs Home where contrary to urban myth only the old and dangerous are destroyed #LondonTrivia
The world’s first jigsaw was created in 1761 by London engraver John Spilsbury by cutting them out by hand and naming them “dissected maps” #LondonTrivia
Landseer copied the forepaws of a domestic moggie for his lions at the base of Nelson’s Column #LondonTrivia
The London taxi must have a turning circle no more than 25ft to enable it to U-turn from a cab rank #LondonTrivia
Lords Cricket Museum includes a stuffed bird who was struck dead by a ball from a well hit six in the1930s #LondonTrivia
On 8 October 1965 Britain got its tallest building when the Post Office Tower (renamed BT) topped out at 580ft plus 70ft for the radio mast #LondonTrivia
London’s first gas-powered traffic lights on Parliament Square in 1868 blew up killing a policeman and caused cavalry horses to stampede #LondonTrivia
Public beheading in London ceased in 1820 when the five Cato Street conspirators were decapitated after being hanged #LondonTrivia
The original Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair was founded by Lord Byron’s butler, James Brown recently refurbished and is now owned by Rocco Forte #LondonTrivia
Banker Henry Fauntleroy’s public hanging for defrauding the Bank of England of £250,000 attracted the largest ever crowd with 100,000 people #LondonTrivia
Florence Nightingale’s statue outside St Thomas’s Hospital is a glass-fibre copy as the original was stolen in 1970 #LondonTrivia
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli speaking in Parliament, referring to taxis said of them: “The Hansom cabs are the gondolas of London” #LondonTrivia
222 Strand was London’s first air conditioned restaurant, ladies from local cycling club pedalled a bicycle in the basement powering bellows #LondonTrivia
Taking 35 years to complete St Paul’s cost a staggering £747,661.50 to build at a time when a labourer building it would be paid 10p a day #LondonTrivia