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The Tube station with something unique not found anywhere else on the London Underground
London Underground
It's not often a Tube station manages to break the mould
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Croydon's haunted pub where customers 'went in and never came back' and 'witch boiled bones'
London Stories
The ghost was said to have murdered travellers who visited the inn and boiled their bones in a pot
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The London Underground's first ever escalators that turned out to be a 'total disaster'
London Underground
In 1988, the crumpled rusty remains of this lost engineering experiment were found buried at the bottom of a lift shaft
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What happened to the lost orange, white and stripy lines that disappeared from the Tube map
London Underground
It's amazing to see how much our beloved map has changed in 30 years
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The 'lost' London Underground station that took commuters directly onto a golf course
London Underground
Have you ever heard of a station built so people could play golf?
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The tiny little ledge near Shakespeare's Globe that holds hundreds of years of history - and you'd probably miss it if you weren't looking
London History
It's the last remaining object of its kind in London
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The 'cursed' River Thames island that makes everything go wrong
London History
It has been plagued by disaster for decades (contains an affiliate link)
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The abandoned tunnels below Shepherds Bush where you can spy on unsuspecting commuters
London History
The tunnels were closed a century ago and are an incredible piece of London history
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A day in the life of Tower of London's Ravenmaster who's as West Ham as they come
London's hidden secrets
Michael 'Barney' Chandler runs a team of five people tasked with taking care of Jubilee, Harris, Poppy, Georgie, Edgar, Branwen and Rex - the tower's famous ravens
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The disaster that befell the original Lambeth Bridge meaning it had to be torn down
London History
The crossing has been used for nearly 700 years but the original bridge did not end well
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The history of London's 250-year-old green huts that you need to pass an exam to enter
London History
The huts, dotted across London, have now all been listed as protected buildings
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Inside beautiful hidden Victorian masterpiece of engineering that stopped London smelling like poo
London's hidden secrets
Crossness Pumping Station first opened in response to ‘The Great Stink’ of 1858
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Beautiful red London Waterloo building has a morbid past as 'gateway to the afterlife'
London's hidden secrets
It's a hidden and very human part of London's history
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The abandoned London Underground station you can still see at Westfield White City
London Underground
The remains of the long-abandoned station called Wood Lane are still visible
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London's 'Nazi dog' memorial next to famous statue that's a short walk from Buckingham Palace
London's hidden secrets
Giro the Alsatian met a tragic end at the former German embassy just off The Mall and there's still a tribute to him 90 years later
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The London train station that was once split in two and Royal Family had their own private entrance
London History
Most people don't know this about the Zone 1 station
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The mini mock-Tudor houses hidden in South London park that no one can explain
London's hidden secrets
The model village in Vauxhall Park remains mostly a mystery
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'I hunted for the 7 London noses stuck to random buildings in the city to see if it'd make me rich'
London's hidden secrets
There are many urban myths that have arisen from these weird noses glued to buildings all over Soho
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Bizarre ancient bylaw that still applies to London bridges is why you might see random straw bales
London History
If you see a straw bale dangling from a bridge it's not a sign of a strange farming mishap
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The Roman road to London built 2,000 years ago that you can still see clues about today
London's hidden secrets
The road, later called Stane Street by the Saxons, is believed to have been built in the first decade of the Roman occupation of Britain
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The real purpose for those seemingly empty green sheds dotted along London’s roads
London History
They're actually very useful!
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The first-ever McDonald's in London with hamburgers for 15p and ashtrays on every table
McDonald's
The first ever McDonald's in the UK opened in Woolwich in 1974 and it was a very different place to the ones we know today
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Inside historic London pub with prison cells underneath it visited by the FBI and MI6
London's hidden secrets
'Spies' drop by for whiskey tastings, but 'they'll never admit exactly who they are'
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London's longest street which hides one of city's most fascinating pubs and graveyards
London History
The street tucked away in South East London takes roughly 37 minutes to walk from start to finish
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Live: Delays on 2 London Underground lines as another and Overground part suspended
Passengers are having to navigate some issues
Peckham man who beat own mum to death and said fractured ribs were 'from CPR' sentenced to 21 years
Courts
Steffon Hewitt also blamed his mum's injuries on her illness
Full list of places that may not be included in new London bus 'Superloop 2' routes
Superloop
The Mayor of London has pledged to expand the capital's existing network of express routes
Woman stabbed 10 times after asking man to leave her North London home
Wood Green
She had asked him to leave her address as he had been taking drugs and alcohol
Battersea primary school set to close amid falling pupil numbers despite petition signed by 3,200
Schools
The school is set to close in August after a sharp decline in reception pupils
Notting Hill
West London headteacher plans 12-hour school days to combat pupils' 'smartphone addiction'
Andrew O’Neill says the devices are creating an 'apathetic' generation
Man found with gun in bum-bag at Notting Hill Carnival Children's Day jailed
Notting Hill Carnival
Officers found a Glock pistol with ammunition in the bag
Therapist who 'used penis to absorb trauma' being sued by 'retraumatised' woman
Crime
The therapist previously appeared on This Morning as a guest
East London man viewed 3,500 'extreme' indecent images of children and downloaded 'manual'
Crime
He had been sent some pictures by an unknown child he had been talking to online
Peckham man who beat own mum to death and said fractured ribs were 'from CPR' sentenced to 21 years
Courts
Steffon Hewitt also blamed his mum's injuries on her illness
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Traffic and Travel
Live: Delays on 2 London Underground lines as another and Overground part suspended
Passengers are having to navigate some issues
Peckham man who beat own mum to death and said fractured ribs were 'from CPR' sentenced to 21 years
Courts
Steffon Hewitt also blamed his mum's injuries on her illness
10 London towns that people mistakenly believe are in Essex, Surrey or Kent
London Underground
There are a few towns that some people like to argue belong to Essex, Kent or Surrey - but they are wrong. These are the areas often referred to as 'London, but not really London' that have been swallowed up by the city in its expansion over the years
Full list of places that may not be included in new London bus 'Superloop 2' routes
Superloop
The Mayor of London has pledged to expand the capital's existing network of express routes
Woman stabbed 10 times after asking man to leave her North London home
Wood Green
She had asked him to leave her address as he had been taking drugs and alcohol
Music
Take That and Olly Murs at The O2 timings, set list, and last-minute tickets
The band are about to play six huge dates at one of London's biggest arenas (contains affiliate links)
West London headteacher plans 12-hour school days to combat pupils' 'smartphone addiction'
Notting Hill
Andrew O’Neill says the devices are creating an 'apathetic' generation
Man found with gun in bum-bag at Notting Hill Carnival Children's Day jailed
Notting Hill Carnival
Officers found a Glock pistol with ammunition in the bag
Therapist who 'used penis to absorb trauma' being sued by 'retraumatised' woman
Crime
The therapist previously appeared on This Morning as a guest
East London man viewed 3,500 'extreme' indecent images of children and downloaded 'manual'
Crime
He had been sent some pictures by an unknown child he had been talking to online