WHEN DID BIG BEN FIRST BONG (PB)

Millions live there and millions more visit each year – but how many really know London? In this book you’ll discover the answers to 101 questions about the greatest city on Earth. For example: How did New York’s famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square? When did Primrose Hill almost gain a pyramid larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops? And how did approximately 640 people come to be drowned in the Thames in a single night?