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100 unusual facts about London


1774 English cricket season

On Friday 25 February 1774, the Laws of Cricket were revised by a committee meeting at the Star and Garter on Pall Mall in London.

1956 in France

10 September - Guy Mollet visits London and proposes a merger of France and the United Kingdom.

Ahl Al Esheg

the video is in black and white, it was directed in London and shows all the British people walking reverse while Diana Haddad is walking in the right way and singing.

Alexander Hurley

He went from working in London's docks as a tea packer to boxing in fairground booths, before moving on to the music hall as a coster singer with the song The Strongest Man In The World.

Applied Radiochemistry

Applied Radiochemistry was an important collection of lectures by German chemist Otto Hahn published in English in 1936 by the Cornell University Press (Ithaca, New York) and simultaneously by the Oxford University Press (London).

Archdeacon of Hampstead

The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London.

Arthur Powell Davies

In London, he met George Bernard Shaw, who urged him to go into politics; instead, he chose to attend Richmond Theological College, a Methodist seminary affiliated with the University of London, and to join the Methodist ministry.

Basil Hallam

He created the character of a privileged young "nut", Gilbert the Filbert, for The Passing Show (1914), the original revue of that title by Herman Finck, which opened at the Palace Theatre, London, on 20 April 1914.

Bassel al-Assad

Bassel Assad's death led to his lesser-known brother Bashar al-Assad, then undertaking postgraduate training in ophthalmology in London, assuming the mantle of President-in-waiting.

Beaworthy

Henry Courtney Selous (b.Haymarket, London, 1803; d.Beaworthy, Devon, 24 September 1890), was an English artist, painter, illustrator and lithographer.

Bedford College

Bedford College, London – a former university college in London, England

Beechholme

It was founded in 1879 as a Residential School for poor children from the slums of Kensington and Chelsea and run under a Village system.

Billy Hague

William "Billy" Robert Hague (born April 9, 1885 in London, England - September 9, 1969) was a professional ice hockey goaltender.

Brain Research Trust

Since its founding in 1971, the Trust has funded research totalling more than £30 million at University College London's Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London.

Briton Hammon

And so seeing nothing further to do he left on a ship to Jamaica, and from there on to London.

Brunei Investment Agency

Brunei investors bought The Dorchester on Park Lane in London in 1985 for US$50 million and in 1996 BIA formed the Dorchester Collection, a conglomerate of luxury hotels in UK, USA, France and Italy which includes it.

Charbagh

A charbagh garden is located on the roof top of the Ismaili Centre in South Kensington, London.

Charles Bridgeman

As Royal Gardener, Bridgeman tended – and in many cases, redesigned – the royal gardens at Windsor, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, St. James's Park and Hyde Park.

Charles Dieupart

In late 1707 Dieupart became involved in establishing an operatic project at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

Charles Peart

Peart continued to work for Wedgwood, and also carved a marble chimneypiece for the Marquess of Buckingham's London residence in Pall Mall

Cheirothrix lewisii

It is now kept in the Natural History Museum in London.

Chelsea Old Church

The Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge.

Chelsea, Oklahoma

Chelsea was named after the area in London, England, by Charles Peach, a railroad official who was a native of that city.

CKGB-FM

The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of The Times of London.

Clapham High Street railway station

This station was opened on 25 August 1862 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) as Clapham, renamed Clapham & North Stockwell from May 1863.

Congenital hyperinsulinism

The relative rarity of this condition and the difficulty of both diagnosis and treatment has resulted in only a few centers around the world developing the expertise to achieve optimal surgical outcomes for these infants: the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, as well as centers in Paris and Israel.

Constantines

From their hometown of Guelph the band relocated to London, Ontario and then to Toronto, where in 2001 they released their self-titled first album.

Coup de glotte

A very resounding condemnation of the coup de glotte as a singing technique was given by Victor Maurel, in a public lecture at the Lyceum Theatre in July 1892.

CS Mackay-Bennett

CS Mackay-Bennett was a cable repair ship registered in London, England, owned by the Commercial Cable Company.

Dalby's Carminative

Dalby's Carminative was a medicinal product formula originally made by James Dalby of London, England, in the late 1770s.

Dark on Fire

The album was recorded in two different studios in London in early 2007.

Denis Rose

Denis Rose (May 31, 1922, London - November 22, 1984, London) was an English jazz pianist and trumpeter.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

Ecce Cor Meum

The Canadian première took place on 27 October 2007 at Metropolitan United Church in London, Ontario.

Elisha Carter

He is Head Chef at the The Landau restaurant located in The Langham, London.

Emil Rosenberg

Emil Rosenberg, working as professor, from 1876 to 1888, systematized the comparative-anatomy collections of the University of Dorpat in accordance with the system developed at the John Hunter Museum in London.

Epilepsy Society

The Epilepsy Society has close partnerships with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and the UCL Institute of Neurology, both located in Queen Square, London.

EuNetworks

Their headquarters are in London, and they are publicly listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Fasken Martineau

Fasken Martineau is an international business law firm with more than 770 lawyers and offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, London, Paris, and Johannesburg.

FC London Academy

FC London Academy, started on April 1, 2011, is the highest level of soccer for boys U6-U18 in London, Ontario.

Food for the Brain Foundation

The best known and launching campaign of the Food for the Brain Foundation was a pilot study carried out at Cricket Green special education school in Merton, London.

Fort Amiel Museum

Major Charles Frederick Amiel was born on 2 August 1822, in Hanover Square, London, England.

Frederik Vermehren

His works were exhibited at the exhibition "Danish Painters" at Guildhall, London, in 1907.

Gabriel Tschumi

In retirement, Tschumi went to live in Wimbledon where he wrote his memoirs, entitled Royal Chef: Recollections of a Life in Royal Households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary, which was published in 1954.

George Paloczi-Horvath

Paloczi-Horvath settled in Richmond, London with his family, and earned his living as a freelance writer and journalist.

Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney

In 1497 the king had prepared an army to invade Scotland to punish James IV for his support of Perkin Warbeck, and had given the command to Daubeney; but he has hardly marched when he was recalled ito put down the Cornish rebels, who came to Blackheath unmolested, and was criticised by the king.

Gordon Tait

Gordon Thomas Tait (12 March 1912 – 3 October 1999) was a British architect, active in London.

Helen Stratton

Her birth/baptism is recorded in the India Office Collection at the British Library and has been indexed on the IGI (familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGQ2-BZ6) She lived and worked in London and for many years in Bath where she died age 95.

Helen Worth

At the age of twelve she played one of the von Trapp children in a stage production of The Sound of Music, at the Palace Theatre in London, a role that kept her in London for nine months.

Hendrik Brouwer

Early in 1632, he was part of a delegation sent to London to solve trade disagreements between the English and Dutch East India companies.

Henry Trivick

He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, later teaching lithography there.

Hermon P. Carpenter

Carpenter graduated from Sue Bennett Memorial School, now Sue Bennett College, at London, Kentucky, and worked his way through Kentucky Wesleyan College, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909.

Horley

In 1602 it became the property of Christ's Hospital in London and the original map of the manor is now held at the Guildhall in the City of London.

Hot Off the Griddle

Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum in order to snare her.

Hugo Biermann

Two years later he attended the British Naval Staff Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and was appointed as naval attaché at South African House, London with the rank of Commander.

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

Set in the north London suburb of Palmers Green in the 1970s, the story opens with Colette Jones attending the funeral of her elder brother's wife, followed by her failed attempts to save him from excessive drinking.

InnoPath Software

innoPath is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with international offices worldwide, including Nacka, Sweden; Beijing, China; Richmond, London, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea.

Jack Reagan

O'Regan worked as a tenant farmer during his early years in Ireland, before he moved to London in 1852.

James Bainham

According to Foxe, More imprisoned and flogged him in his house at Chelsea, and then sent him to the Tower of London to be racked, in the hope of discovering other heretics by his confession; this is doubted by later authors.

JATO Dynamics

Its Global Headquarters are in Harrow, London, UK with offices in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands and USA.

Jennifer Hedger

A native of London, Ontario, Hedger grew up in Lambeth and Westminster, Ontario and later graduated from the University of Western Ontario.

John Burns Hynd

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925.

John Cournos

London is portrayed as plagued by poverty, with black market cigarettes and broken lifts, and the narrator wanders round the Strand exclaiming at the filth of the streets, the idlers and the jealous envy displayed towards his new boots.

John O'London's Weekly

While McCourt is delivering magazines to shops for the company Eason's, his boss learns from the Irish government that copies of John O'London's Weekly must be censored because they contain an article about birth control.

John Vicars

John Vicars (1582, London-12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.

John Warrington Rogers

Warrington was the eldest son of the John Warrington Rogers, of London, entered as a student to the Middle Temple in June 1848, and was called to the bar in November 1846.

Kinross and West Perthshire by-election, 1963

A last-minute candidate appeared in the shape of Richard Wort, a schoolmaster from Wimbledon who stood as an Independent right-wing candidate; his nomination paper was handed in with 29 minutes to spare.

La Femme Piège

At the same time in London, Jill is working on an article about the Afro-Pakistian and Zuben'Ubisch minority conflicts in the suburbs of Chelsea.

London Student Awards

The 2007 awards ceremony took place at the Natural History Museum on Wednesday July 19.

London, Ohio

It is the second largest community in the United States named London.

Man and Myth

In support of the albums' release Harper undertook a short, three date, UK tour, performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London, (22 October), the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (25 October) and the Colston Hall, Bristol (27 October).

Maud Babcock

At other times in her professional life, she studied at the University of Chicago and schools in London and Paris; served as president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech; and, for twenty years, a trustee for the Utah State School for Deaf and Blind.

Max Sørensen

During his tenure there, he worked as Attaché Embassy in Bern and in 1944 as Secretary of Legation in London.

Medical slang

There is an annual round-up of the usage of medical slang by British physician Dr. Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital, London.

Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

The 1850s saw the arrival of some 300 Jewish families from London and the Province of Posen, Prussia to Melbourne, prompting the construction of a new larger synagogue on the Bourke Street site.

Merton Abbey

Merton Abbey, London, the residential area in southwest London on the site of the former priory

Mona Brand

During the five and a half years she was in the UK (1948–1953) Brand was active in London's Unity Theatre which shared common views with the New Theatre in Australia.

North Quay

North Quay, London proposed building complex on Canary Wharf, London

O'Higgins Park

In 1870, the government gave the northern portion of the terrain to the rich heir and philanthropist Luis Cousiño, who inspired by the parks he saw in Europe —like Hyde Park in London or the Bois de Boulogne in Paris— decided to give one to his own city.

Owen Aaronovitch

Aaronovitch was born in Parliament Hill Fields, London.

Paddington Green

Paddington Green, London, a location in north-east Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Peach Melba

For the occasion of the opening of the Carlton Hotel, where he was head chef, Escoffier omitted the ice swan and topped the peaches with raspberry purée.

Peter Thomas Dunican

As senior partner at Arup, Dunican is credited with overseeing much of its growth from a single office in London in 1946 to a firm of over 7000 staff now.

Samuel Rowland Fisher

Fisher eventually took over most of the business from his father and brothers, continuing for the rest of his life to run the packet line to London.

Scala Browne Agency

Born in London in 1940, Mim Scala went to school at St Augustins, Hammersmith and Chelsea Art School at Manresa Rd, Chelsea.

Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator

The album was released in 1991 and recorded live in London and Kitchener (misspelled in the liner notes at "Kitchner") Ontario, Canada, in October 1990.

Skënder Rizaj

He has done extensive research in Turkish Archives in Istanbul, and the British Library in London.

Speakers' Corner, Singapore

In response to these free speech concerns, Speakers' Corner was created as local adaptation of the Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London, in 2000.

Speed skating at the Winter Olympics

The governing body for speed skating, the International Skating Union (ISU), was included in the list of recognized federations when the International Olympic Committee was founded, but was first discussed seriously for the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

Stephen Marks

In 1978, Nicole Farhi was employed to head up the company’s design studio in Bow, East London.

The Military Philosophers

Jenkins is living in a flat in Chelsea in early 1943 and is promoted in his liaison duties to supervising the Belgians and Czechs.

The One After Ross Says Rachel

Meanwhile, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) are afraid their friendship may suffer following their night together before resolving to only continue a sexual relationship whilst in London for the wedding.

The Vise

In 1957, The Vise was altered and moved from ABC to NBC under the title Saber of London, with Gray still in the lead role.

Travelling Riverside Blues

English rock band Led Zeppelin's version of this song was recorded at the BBC studios in Aeolian Hall on June 24, 1969, by engineer John Waters, which took place during the band's UK Tour of Summer 1969.

Tring Museum

Natural History Museum at Tring, formerly the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum now part of the Natural History Museum.

V-Ships

V.ships is a ship management company, part of V.Group Holdings which is registered in Monaco but headquartered in London, England; and has over 70 offices in 34 different countries.

Wandsworth Road railway station

On 1 May 1867, the London, Chatham and Dover Railway leased the original two tracks to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR), for use by its new South London Line service (which run between Victoria and London Bridge via Denmark Hill).

Westmount Mall

Westmount Shopping Centre or also referred to as Westmount Mall is a shopping centre located in London, Ontario.

Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Its seat is the Merchant Taylors' Hall between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill, a site it has occupied since at least 1347.

Zsujta

A large bronze age hoard of weapons was discovered in the village in the late 19th century and can be found at the British Museum, London.


Alan Kreider

As a public speaker, Alan Kreider has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983).

Alloclita brachygrapta

The species was described on the basis of two males in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London.

Andrew Ducrow

Ducrow is buried on the Main (or Centre) Avenue at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England near the tomb of the Duke of Sussex, one of the most desirable burial plots of the time.

Andrey Lugovoy

Traces of polonium-210 have been discovered in all three hotels where Lugovoy stayed after flying to London on October 16, in the Pescatori restaurant in Dover Street, Mayfair, where Lugovoy is understood to have dined before November 1, and aboard two aircraft on which he had travelled.

Artur Gadowski

On October 15 he was guest on a TV show Weekend z Gwiazdą (Weekend with the Star) which was, by way of an exception, broadcast from the Stansted airport near London, UK.

Ayton, Scottish Borders

The Scottish diarist and author James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson passed through Ayton on his journey to London on 15 November 1762.

Bailey's Hotel

Millennium Bailey's Hotel, London -historic hotel in London established in 1876.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Ben O'Donoghue

In 1996 O'Donoghue travelled to the United Kingdom where he worked at The River Café before moving to become Head Chef at the Monte's Club in Knightsbridge with Jamie Oliver.

British Coachways

Excelsior Coaches brought with it a service from London to Bournemouth and Poole.

Chinese exonyms

"London Heathrow Airport" is usually rendered in Chinese text as 倫敦希斯路機場 (Lúndūn Xīsīlù Jīchǎng), with the English pronunciation of 'London' fairly accurate, and of 'Heathrow' less accurate: literally as Chinese this means "kinship, honest" (for London), "hope/rare, given/this, road" (for Heathrow), "aircraft, field", with the last syllable of "Heathrow" rendered as "lu" although the more accurate "lo" and "lou" are known Chinese words.

Ching Ling Foo

The Christopher Nolan movie, The Prestige (film), depicts a Chinese magician working in London, who performs a similar trick with a water bowl.

De Havilland Gipsy Six

A preserved Gipsy Six engine is on public display at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, another is on display at the Science Museum (London).

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Elaine Dundy

As part of her research for the Presley book, Dundy moved from her luxurious suites in London and New York to live for five months in Presley's birthplace of Tupelo, Mississippi.

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Esther de Berdt

Esther de Berdt was born in London, England, into a family descended of Protestant refugees from Ypres, who had fled the "Spanish Fury" led by the Duke of Alba.

Fred Godfrey

They were married in Treherbert; after which they moved to 6 Streatham Place, London.

Friedrich von Hermann

Warmly supporting the customs union (Zollverein), he acted in 1851 as one of its commissioners at the great industrial exhibition at London, and published an elaborate report on the woollen goods.

George Tyndale

He recorded with Caribbean singers and appeared extensively at nightclubs, in particular with Joe Appleton's band and for a period as a leader at the Sunset, a rendezvous popular with London's black population.

Girdle of Thomas

There were a number of supposed original girdle relics across the ancient Christian world, partly conflated with "tertiary" relics of belts that had touched the supposed genuine belt - Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England, bought one of these from a friar to help her pregnancy, and there was an "original" at Westminster Abbey in London.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

Jessops

The relaunch of the Oxford Street store in London received considerable media interest and was attended by celebrities including the actor James Corden.

John Atkinson Pendlington

Until recently, the system was believed to have been developed by Bill Ferguson but Pendlington's grandson sent a 1914 newspaper cutting to Richie Benaud in 1994, and Benaud published this in his book My Spin on Cricket (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2005, page 278).

Jooho Kim

Jooho holds MA degree in Linguistics (1984) from the Korea University and Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration (1991) from the City University London.

Judith Keppel

Keppel's father was a Lieutenant Commander in the Fleet Air Arm, who moved with the family to various naval postings around Britain until they settled in London when she was 17.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant

He succeeded his grandfather John Oliphant, 2nd Lord Oliphant, in 1516, and was one of the Scottish nobles taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss on 25 November 1542, reaching Newark on 15 December, on the way to London.

London Figaro

Writing in Journalistic London later in the year, Joseph Hatton, said,

Lust's Dominion

If Lust's Dominion is The Spanish Moor's Tragedy by another name, it may have been influenced by the August 1600 arrival in London of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, Ambassador of Muley Ahmad al-Mansur, King of Barbary or Morocco.

Matthew Garber

Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London from September 1968 until July 1972.

Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

The new courses of study, based on the advice of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, were introduced in 1844, and were ultimately recognised by them, by the London University and the Society of Apothecaries in 1846.

Nicola Francesco Haym

His career began as a cellist in Italy, and he arrived in London in 1701: he swiftly became master of the 2nd Duke of Bedford's chamber music.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, a wealthy London merchant and member of the British East India Company, in 1643.

Some Other Guy

The song was part of The Beatles' live repertoire in 1962-63, and a recording was made on 19 June 1963 during a live BBC radio performance by the band at The Playhouse Theatre, London.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

SS Rajputana

Onboard he met with Mahatma Gandhi who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

Stephen Caudel

Toured extensively (Britain, Germany and Japan) including Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Markneukirchen Guitar Festival, Karuizawa Music Festival and 3 nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall as Special Guest of Art Garfunkel.

Stuart McQuarrie

McQuarrie trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow and soon became a highly popular actor amongst Edinburgh theatre goers before moving to London where he has played prominent roles in more controversial, new dramas by playwrights such as Sarah Kane and Anthony Neilson, amongst others.

TANLA

Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.

Tharros

Most of the artifacts can be found in the Archaeological Museum at Cagliari, in the Antiquarium Arborense, the Archaeological Museum of the town of Cabras and in the British Museum, London.

The Bentley London

It is located at 27-33 Harrington Gardens in south Kensington, lying between Cromwell Road to the north and Brompton Road to the south in close proximity to some of London's major museums including the Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and other sites of note such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sloane Square and the Royal Court Theatre, and the boutiques of Knightsbridge such as Harrods and Harvey Nichols.

The Jeff Beck Group

The first Jeff Beck Group formed in London in early 1967 and included guitarist Jeff Beck, vocalist Rod Stewart, rhythm guitarist Ronnie Wood, with bass players and drummers changing regularly.

The Network Chart Show

The show originally featured the Network Top 30 and ran from 5pm until 7pm in direct competition to BBC Radio One's Top 40 chart show and was broadcast from Capital Radio's studios on Euston Road in London.

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

William Parker Snow

He supported many good causes including services to the poor in London and marine safety, including the efforts of Samuel Plimsoll and proposals for harbours of refuge and a system of linked floating relief stations around the globe.

Yousef Gamal El-Din

On June 14, 2010 he became the third co-host of Capital Connection, joining Anna Edwards in London and Chloe Cho in Singapore.