Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

-- A recent news story reported that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin delayed 103 airplane passengers 10 minutes in London while they finished their drinks.

Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London or Pearl Harbor.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

From Tokyo to Istanbul, they drove a total of before joining the European motorway network for another to London.

As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

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.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

Private banks which had previously had that right retained it, provided that their headquarters were outside London and that they deposited security against the notes that they issued.

At certain times, London has had no overall city government and boroughs were the main unit of local government for Londoners ; in Tokyo, they are known as wards or cities, and have city status, but these still form parts of a larger municipal government which has merged with that of the prefecture.

and Thomas Flamank, a lawyer from Bodmin, marched to Blackheath in London where they were eventually defeated by 10, 000 men of the King's army under Baron Daubeny.

The lines between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks hardened in April 1905 when the Bolsheviks held a Bolsheviks-only meeting in London, which they called the Third Party Congress.

The king's judges would then return to London and often discuss their cases and the decisions they made with the other judges.

The scheme functions slightly differently in each area, and is managed by each branch, but the overall rule is that each participating pub is allowed to purchase beer from whatever brewery they wish, but if it the beer is to be promoted as a ' LocAle ' it must come from a brewery within a predetermined number of miles ( which is set by each CAMRA branch, but generally is around 20 or 25 miles, although, the North London branch has set it at 30 miles ) from brewery to pub door, even if it comes from a distribution centre further away ; in addition, each participating pub must keep at least one LocAle for sale at all times.

Monet and Camille Doncieux had married just before the war ( 28 June 1870 ) and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they had moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871.

Woolwich Arsenal's move to North London in 1913 gave Charlton an opportunity to develop, and they became a senior side by joining the Lewisham League.

In 1974, Barbara Mullen played Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage at the Savoy Theatre, London.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

( The police officer was played by Colin Bell, then the marketing manager of London Records ).

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

* Fulham Rugby League Club, now London Broncos, played at Craven Cottage between 1980 and 1984, hosting their largest attendance.

" Following the news of Hester's death, Nick Seymour joined The Finn Brothers on stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where the three played in memory of Paul.

He played the role in London and then on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award.

To demonstrate his oscillator before the London Institute of Electrical Engineers, Duddell wired a series of tuned circuits to the arc and played a tune, " God Save The Queen ".

A game of hockey being played between Germany and Scotland at the 1908 London Olympics

The first club was in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London, but the modern rules grew out of a version played by Middlesex cricket clubs for winter sport.

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 ).

Sarah Bernhardt played the prince in her popular 1899 London production.

Their dealer, Durand-Ruel, played a major role in this as he kept their work before the public and arranged shows for them in London and New York.

Sitting in with Cream, Hendrix played through a new range of high-powered guitar amps being made by London drummer turned audio engineer Jim Marshall, and they proved perfect for his needs.

He played Thursday nights at Heaven in London and Friday nights at a smaller club night at The Beach in Brighton.

From late 1962 until the spring of 1964, he played drums for The Beachcombers, a London cover band notable for renditions of songs by Cliff Richard.

The four played together for the first time in a room below a record store on Gerrard Street in London.

In May 1975, Led Zeppelin played five sold-out nights at the Earls Court Arena in London, at the time the largest arena in Britain.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

From October 2007 to January 2008, he played the role of Wilbur Turnblad in the London production of Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

They played subsequent shows in London and South America in December.

The following night, The Damned played their first show, as a Pistols opening act in London.