Peter Stone

This is the former home of John Logie Baird at Sydenham Hill, where he and his family lived between 1933 and 1944. Baird was an electrical engineer who in the early 1920s created the world's first television system.

Today in 1649, several months after the execution of King Charles I, the country was today declared a republican “Commonwealth and Free State”. Read here about London during the Commonwealth period thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/london-during-…

Alexandra Palace and Park in North London was officially reopened today in 1901 under public ownership. Read here the history of Alexandra Palace thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/alexandra-pala…

@joebridge83inE1 In Berwick Street but not the pub itself.

@LondonStone I believe Jessie Matthews was also born there!

There are five pubs called Blue Posts within a small area of Central London, including this one in Berwick Street, Soho. The name is believed to be derived from the 18thC sedan chair (taxi) ranks. The early British film star Jessie Matthews took dancing lessons above the pub.

Samuel Johnson first met James Boswell in a Covent Garden bookshop today in 1763. It is through Boswell's biography that we know so much about Johnson. Read here about the life of Johnson thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/dr-samuel-john…

Handel gave the final annual performance of his Messiah at the Foundling Hospital today in 1754. Read here about Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital, London's first orphanage thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/thomas-coram-a…

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho was first opened in 1959 by saxophonists Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to its current premises in Frith Street. Scott died in 1996 and in 2005 King sold the club to its current owners.

The engineer John Rennie was associated with four bridges over the Thames in the 19th century. One of these was Southwark Bridge, an engineering masterpiece of its time. Read here about the original Southwark Bridge thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-original-s…

Ede & Ravenscroft of Chancery Lane is said to be the world's oldest continually operating tailors, tracing their history back to the late 17th century. The company supplies wigs and gowns to universities and the legal profession.

Several days of anti-German riots around London began today in 1915 following the sinking of the Lusitania. Read here about London's vibrant German community of the 19th and early 20th century thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-german-com…

In 1852 the Crystal Palace moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham Hill. To serve the many visitors a new railway was opened. Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in 1936 and the railway closed. Some of its route can still be traced, including the entrance to the Crescent Wood Tunnel.

The introduction of omnibuses from 1829 at last allowed Londoners to work more than walking distance from their home. Click here to read about omnibuses and hansom cabs in the Victorian era thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/hansom-cabs-an…

@LondonTommy66 There is an information board there though.

@LondonStone Just about. In the 70s there used to be an inscription on the dockside ... 'SS GE launched 'ere' kind of thing, but then when the replaced it with a concrete quayside, no one thought to make a new inscription. Sad because it should be a detail visible to river traffic.

At the time of its completion in 1857 the SS Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was the world's largest ship, able to carry 4,000 passengers. It was built on the Isle of Dogs, taking almost 3 months to launch, and the launch ramps still remain at Millwall.

@JohnWil45304495 @4CornersBooks In that case, I expect to regularly hear from you! 😄

@LondonStone @4CornersBooks Among other activities, I am a professional proofreader.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the abolition of the Greater London Council. To mark the occasion comes a new book 'London's Ours! Images from the Greater London Council 1981-1985'. You can read my review here thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/londons-ours-i… @4CornersBooks

Westminster Abbey has for centuries been the venue for coronations of British monarchs. Its origins go back a thousand years and more. Read here about Westminster Abbey in its early times thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-origins-of…

@JohnWil45304495 @4CornersBooks OK, got it. Thanks!

@LondonStone @4CornersBooks "Residuary" instead of "Residual."

@JohnWil45304495 @4CornersBooks The debating chamber sentence?

@LondonStone @4CornersBooks The 12th paragraph of the text.

@JohnWil45304495 @4CornersBooks I am in an auto-correct-free zone. All mistakes my own. Can you point me to where exactly you mean?

@LondonStone @4CornersBooks You may be a victim of automatic text, but your review needs to correct the name of the GLC's immediate successor. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansa…