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Sinclair Road in Kensington Olympia (please feel free to pass on to family and friends)
“We had a wonderful stay at Sinclair Road. Hugo and the team were very responsive throughout our four week visit. The flat is as pictured and really felt like home after we had settled in. Very easy to walk to either Shepherd’s Bush or Barons Court for the train and a five minutes walk to the No 9 bus right into the city centre. It is a lovely neighbourhood with a fantastic local pub, The Bird in Hand, just down the road - in fact you can see it from the bathroom window! I’d rebook this place if we were to return to London again”
Catherine de Wit - Sydney, Australia
Three reasonably useless facts you don’t really need to know before visiting London …
London was the first city to reach one million inhabitants
For more than a century London was the largest city in the world, and in 1810 it became the first city to reach one million inhabitants. In 1926 Tokyo overtook London as the world’s most populated city. Since then, Tokyo has remained at the top with a population expected to reach 14 million in the next few years. London, meanwhile, remains the largest city in Europe but has dropped to 34th position, with a population of just 8.5 million.
The London Museum owns 17,000 human skeletons
Unconnected, hopefully, to the above, the majority of these human remains were recovered from archaeological sites in around the city, which has been continuously inhabited since around 4,000BC. The skeletons date from early civilisations up to the post-Medieval period, and are carefully looked after by the London Museum and used for research. London is home to some of the world’s finest museums, displaying everything from dinosaur bones to the wonders of nature at the Natural History Museum to the space age technology on display at the Science Museum. The London Museum is sited in Smithfield, near the City of London, but is currently undergoing a renovation, but will reopen in 2026.
Big Ben chimes in the musical key of E
People think that Big Ben is the name of the tower which stands at the Houses of Parliament. In fact the tower was simply called ‘The Clock Tower’ when it was built, and was was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 as part of Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Big Ben is actually the name of the bell that chimes out the hour across Westminster. Big Ben has been in the tower since it was hung in 1859. Soon after, though, the bell cracked and did not chime again for four years, until it was repaired in 1863. There have been a few interruptions for repairs, but Big Ben has chimed almost every hour since then. The bell weighs in at a weighty 13.5 tonnes and has a 2.75 metre circumference.
