* 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.

* 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.

Hoards dating to the Viking occupation of London in 871 / 2 have been excavated at Croydon, Gravesend, and Waterloo Bridge ; these finds hint at the cost involved in making peace with the Vikings.

In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for amateur championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The area of King's Cross, London was previously a village known as Battle Bridge which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet.

( 1994 ) Basic Bridge Victor Gollancz, London, UK.

The Bridge Players ' Encyclopedia 1967 Paul Hamlyn, London UK.

He painted an important series of paintings in Venice, Italy, and in London he painted two important series — views of Parliament and views of Charing Cross Bridge.

File: Pissarro — Old Chelsea Bridge. jpg | Old Chelsea Bridge, London 1871, Smith College Museum of Arts

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

Early finals venues include Kennington Oval, in 1872 and 1874 – 92, the Racecourse Ground, Derby in 1886, Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester in 1893, Goodison Park in 1894, Burnden Park for the 1901 replay, Bramall Lane in 1912, the Crystal Palace Park, 1895 – 1914, Stamford Bridge 1920 – 22, and Lillie Bridge, Fulham, London in 1873.

The granite quarries around Haytor were the source of the stone used in several famous structures, including the New London Bridge, completed in 1831.

* 1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

* 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

* 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

* 1996 – 2000, Millennium Bridge, London, UK

* 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

The oldest surviving such race, Doggett's Coat and Badge was first contested in 1715 and is still held annually from London Bridge to Chelsea.

Shard London Bridge, London, UK ( 2012 )

Another piece of evidence appears in a dispatch from Bonn in The Observer ( London ).

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

However, on the Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae Description of Jodocus Hondius ( London 1589 ), " Don Garcia " mysteriously changes its name to " I. de Dio Gratia ", while the " I. de Chagues " appears close by.

Mayhew also often appears as a character in television and radio histories of Victorian London, played by Timothy West in the documentary London ( 2004 ) and by David Haig in the Afternoon Play A Chaos of Wealth and Want ( 2010 ).

This was the first paper to be read to the new Physical Society of London ( now the Institute of Physics ) and appears on page one of volume one of their Proceedings.

She appears to have spent three years in the Welsh Marches, making regular visits to her father's court, before returning permanently to the home counties around London in mid-1528.

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named " Solomon Kohan " appears in early 18th century London.

He was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member of its council, Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which capacity he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire.

The same year, on 16 August, Eadred was consecrated by Archbishop Oda of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames ( Surrey, now Greater London ), where he appears to have received the submission of Welsh rulers and northern earls.

This simultaneity both appears playfully, in his Hortense novels, Our Beautiful Heroine, Hortense in Exile, and Hortense is Abducted, and with gravity and reflection in The Great Fire of London, considered the pinnacle of his prose.

Despite a deeply cynical response to the logo and mascots of the London Games, this torch design appears to have been well accepted in the UK and internationally.

Bowser appears as a playable character in the Mario Kart series and various Mario sport titles, such as Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games with its sequels Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games where he is one of the two main villains ( with Dr. Eggman ) in the Adventure Mode ( handheld versions only ).

From Kentish charters it is known that Æthelbald was in control of London, and from Æthelbald's time on, the transition to Mercian control appears to be complete ; an early charter of Offa's, granting land near Harrow, does not even include the king of Essex on the witness list.

Raleigh spent time in the Tower of London for this and Elizabeth was expelled from the court but the marriage appears to have been a genuine love-match and survived the imprisonment.

The origin of the name " Notting Hill " is uncertain though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull, while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called " Knotting-Bernes ,", " Knutting-Barnes ," or " Nutting-barns ", and goes on to quote from a court record during Henry VIII's reign that " the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster.

The name is shown on J Cary's 1786 map of the London area as " Wimbleton ", and the current spelling appears to have been settled on relatively recently in the early 19th century, the last in a long line of variations.

The name, which appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, was later applied to the early 20th century Camden Town Group of artists and the London borough of Camden, created in 1965.

In the early stages the lowlands and cities may have had some organisation or " council " and the Bishop of London appears to have played a key role, but they were divided politically as former soldiers, mercenaries, nobles, officials and farmers declared themselves kings, fighting amongst each other and leaving Britain open to invasion.

From the archaeological evidence, it appears to be about this time that the Middle Saxon settlement in London began to expand significantly ; the centre of Anglo-Saxon London was not at the old Roman centre, but about a mile west of that, near what is now the location of the Strand.

Essex also included London, and the diocese of London included Surrey ; this appears to have been a source of friction between Ine and the East Saxon and Mercian kings, until the province was transferred to the diocese of Winchester in 705.

The Zoological Gardens of London for example once successfully managed to mate a male European wolf to an Indian female, resulting in a pup bearing an almost exact likeness to its sire.

The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.

While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company – a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL – its use on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms.

The earliest known picture postcard was a hand-painted design on card, posted in London to the writer Theodore Hook in 1840 bearing a penny black stamp.

In the custody of York, the king was returned to London with York and Salisbury riding alongside, and with Warwick bearing the royal sword in front.

A past curiosity of Waterloo was that a spur led to the adjoining dedicated London Necropolis railway station of the London Necropolis Company, from which funeral trains, at one time daily, ran to Brookwood Cemetery bearing coffins at 2 / 6 each.

Whetstone is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, bearing the postcode N20.

The Council now styles itself the " London Borough of Bexley " in common with its formal name, although it previously styled itself " Bexley London Borough " until 1999 ( possibly to maintain the link with its predecessor, Bexley Municipal Borough ), and " Bexley Council " from 1999 to October 2007, when it reverted to its full formal name in conjunction with the adoption of a new Council logo bearing this name alongside the 1965 Coat of Arms.

One officer who attended this training, William D. McGarey, went to the Air Ministry in London and worked on German ball bearing markings.

At the end of Mallards record run, the middle big end ( part of the motion for the inside cylinder ) was found to have run hot ( indicated by the bursting of a heat-sensitive " stink bomb " placed in the bearing for warning purposes ), the bearing metal having melted, which meant that the locomotive had to stop at Peterborough rather than continue on to London.

It was an exclusive tax placed on the colonies in America requiring that documents and newspapers be printed on stamped paper from London bearing an embossed revenue stamp that had to be paid for in British currency.

Inspired by the Stop the City actions of 1983 and 1984, Class War organised a number of ' Bash The Rich ' demonstrations, in which supporters were invited to march through and disrupt wealthier areas of London such as Kensington, and Henley-on-Thames ( during the annual Regatta ), bearing banners and placards with slogans such as " Behold your future executioners!

The volume of work bearing de Lamerie's mark makes it almost certain that he subcontracted orders to other London silversmiths before applying his own mark.

Celia Fiennes, who in 1697 proceeded out of London along the Dover Road, wrote in her diary of stopping at " Shuttershill, on top of which hill you see a vast prospect ... some lands clothed with trees, others with grass and flowers, gardens, orchards, with all sorts of herbage and tillage, with severall little towns all by the river, Erith, Leigh, Woolwich etc., quite up to London, Greenwich, Deptford, Black Wall, the Thames twisting and turning it self up and down bearing severall vessells and men of warre on it ".

David Astor died in London at the age of 89 and is buried in All Saints ' Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, in a grave with a simple headstone bearing only his name.

Near the top of London Street near Faringdon Folly is the pub bearing the same name.

The principal entrance was carved by Messrs Lornie of London and featured shields bearing the coat of arms of Sir Andrew Judd and the company, the only architectural flourish allowed by the low budget.

Banners bearing heraldic badge s of several officers of arms at the College of Arms in London.

The escutcheon's formal blazon is in Irish, translated here as Argent two piles throughout gules three cinquefoils counterchanged (' On white, two red triangles throughout the shield, three cinquefoils in the reverse colour '); the colours are those of the City of London, and the piles form a W. Along with this was granted a crest, On a wreath of the colours a pied wagtail bearing in its beak ragged robin all proper (' On a red and white wreath, a pied wagtail bearing in its beak ragged robin, all in their natural colours ').