When Did Big Ben First Bong?

From the truth about Handel’s ugly ears to hippos running wild in Trafalgar Square, it’s all in When Did Big Ben First Bong?, the ultimate trivia guide to the greatest city on Earth.

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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