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When Did Big Ben First Bong?

ebook

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

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    Publisher: The History Press

    OverDrive Read

    • ISBN: 9780752470696
    • Release date: September 16, 2011

    EPUB ebook

    • ISBN: 9780752470696
    • File size: 11411 KB
    • Release date: September 16, 2011

    Formats

    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook

    subjects

    History Nonfiction

    Languages

    English

    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

  • Expand title description text