Recently the organisation has been running a successful comedy night on the 2nd Thursday of each month in London's Cross Kings basement rooms, guest acts have included Mark Thomas, Josie Long, Rob Newman, Robin Ince and Simon Munnery as well as live podcasts from established acts such as Richard Herring and Andrew Collins and legendary punk filmmaker Don Letts.

Moses da Costa Andrade is Edward Neville's 2nd great grandfather, and was a feather merchant in London's East End.

On the 17th September 2005, the band played their first live show for almost six months, at the 2nd annual Smalltown America Records Charity All-Dayer at London's 93 Feet East venue, where they played a set that consisted almost entirely of new material.

* Croome, D. & Jackson, A. Rails Through The Clay — A History Of London's Tube Railways ( 2nd.

London's first Roman amphitheatre was built in AD70 from wood but was renovated in the early 2nd century with tiled entrances and ragstone walls.

The Bank's headquarters has been located in London's main financial district, the City of London, on Threadneedle Street, since 1734.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.

* 1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

Gordon continued to act on the stage throughout the 1930s, including notable runs as Mattie in Ethan Frome, Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife at London's Old Vic and on Broadway, and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at Central City, Colorado, and on Broadway.

Its name derives from the West Minster, or monastery church, west of the City of London's St Paul's.

The Lord Mayor is a member of the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation ( incorporated as The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London ).

The GLA is different from the Corporation of the City of London with its largely ceremonial Lord Mayors, which controls only the square mile of the City, London's chief financial centre.

Rickshaws are a tourist attraction in the Asakusa region of Tokyo ; in the main temple area of Kyoto ; in tourist heavy areas of Kamakura ; on The Peak, Hong Kong ; in Vietnam on Cijin Island in Kaohsiung ; in areas of London's Chinatown, in Ottawa's Byward Market ; in downtown Toronto ; in Kathmandu, Nepal, and in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, ( Vietnam ).

In 1392 he was one of the city's delegation to the King at Nottingham at which the King seized the City of London's lands because of alleged misgovernment.

Uniquely among London's Underground lines, the Waterloo & City runs underground for its entire length, including both stations.

Taking a fairly broad definition of the West End, the area contains the main concentrations of most of London's metropolitan activities apart from financial services, which are concentrated primarily in the City of London.

* " Aunt Agatha ", or " Great Aunt Agatha ", is a term sometimes used somewhat disparagingly by workers in the City of London's financial markets to describe a risk-averse, low-volume, non-corporate investor.

At a show in London's White City Stadium on May 26, 1974, 650 were injured in a crush at the front of the stage.

Two of London's most successful City Academies are in Hackney with another two in development and plans to rebuild or renovate every other Hackney school by 2016.

Located east of Aldgate, outside the City Walls and beyond official controls, it attracted the less fragrant activities of the city, particularly tanneries, breweries, foundries ( including the Whitechapel Bell Foundry which later cast Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and London's Big Ben ) and slaughterhouses.

Automated driverless systems are not exclusively rubber-tyred ; many have since been built using conventional rail technology, such as London's Docklands Light Railway, the Copenhagen metro and Vancouver's SkyTrain, the Disneyland Resort Line which uses converted rolling stocks from non-driverless trains, as well as AirTrain JFK which is linking JFK Airport in New York City with local subway and commuter trains.

He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on Broadway in New York City.

In 1315 the prebendary manor was granted by Robert de Baldock to the Mayor and commonalty of London, enabling more general public access to a large area of fen or moor stretching from the City of London's boundary ( London Wall ), to the village of Hoxton.

" Reminiscent of the possibility of seeing the Celestial City from Mount Clear, on a clear day one can see London's buildings from Dunstable Downs near Whipsnade Zoo ;

* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

* February 8 – An IRA ceasefire ends with a half-tonne bomb in London's Canary Wharf District, killing 2 and causing over £ 85 million worth of damage.

Descent ( 2002 ) is a film made by lowering the camera in a crane over a construction site at London's Canary Wharf.

* In London's redeveloped docklands Canary Wharf tube station, adjacent office towers and shopping malls are connected underground.

Two dates in March 2004 were played at London's Cabot Hall in Canary Wharf as part of the Docklands Music Festival and the following night at Dartford's Mick Jagger Centre, previewing two new tracks-" Addiction " ( never released but later part of the B. E. D.

The investment was considered a large risk as London's Docklands was in recession and the neighbouring Canary Wharf development was in receivership.

Canada Square is a public square at Canary Wharf, on the Isle of Dogs in London's Docklands.

Her adventures have included lawn mower racing, paragliding, walking a circus high-wire and cleaning windows at London's Canary Wharf tower.

Street-Porter created a schedule based around three blocks of live broadcasting each day from its base on the 24th floor of London's Canary Wharf building.

Badar has launched special events and endorsed charitable causes such as London's first Children ’ s Hospice Week for the Richard House Children ’ s Hospice Trust in Canary Wharf.

It is notably similar in design to One Canada Square in London's Canary Wharf development.

The Oxo Tower Wharf is located towards the eastern end of London's South Bank cultural area, and is within the London Borough of Southwark.

Orchard House Yard ) and Trinity Buoy Wharf which contains London's only lighthouse.

Trinity Buoy Wharf, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is the site of London's only lighthouse, by the confluence of the River Thames and Bow Creek, at Leamouth.

Butler's Wharf is an English historic building on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of London's Tower Bridge, now housing luxury flats and restaurants.

Complete with crowd effects, interruptions by jet planes, and sundry other touches of realism, this disc displays London's new technique to the best effect.

Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive ''.

It is a kind of justice, too, that it should originate in London's Royal Albert Hall, where, traditionally, the loudest, if not the greatest, performers have entertained the thousands it will accommodate ( RCA Victor LM 2454, $4.98 ).

* 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500, 000 people living in south east England and brings 60 % of London's underground rail network to a halt.

The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London's story " Make Westing " poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California.

Salieri was portrayed in the award-winning play at London's National Theatre by Paul Scofield.

The show was presented three times in London's West End.

Chess was staged in London's West End Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986, and ran for almost three years.

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

The winner is usually announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall, usually in early October.

The programme acts as a morning news bulletin for the Asia-Pacific region and is broadcast as a double-headed news bulletin with Rico Hizon in Singapore and Babita Sharma in London's N8 studio.

The latter became well known for her reconstructions of baroque ballets for London's " Ballet for All " company in the 1960s.

" At 14, shortly after his mother's relapse, he registered with a theatrical agency in London's West End.

London's taste for virtuosity may well have encouraged the complex passage work and extended statements on tonic and dominant.

Attlee returned to local politics in the immediate post-war period, becoming mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney in 1919, one of London's poorest inner-city boroughs.

The distinction is most easily made when there are two systems such as New York's subway and the LIRR and Metro-North, Paris ' RER and Métro, London's Overground and the tube lines of the Underground, Barcelona's Metro and Rodalies, S-Bahn and U-Bahn systems in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich or Vienna, the JR lines and the Metro in Tokyo.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Kane made her West End debut in January 2011 in a major revival of Lillian Hellman's drama The Children's Hour, at London's Comedy Theatre.

In 1988, Jones contributed to the creation of London's Museum of the Moving Image by spending several days working high on scaffolding creating a chase sequence directly onto the high walls of the museum.

Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Kasey Kasem, and their British counterparts such as the BBC's Brian Matthew, Radio London's John Peel, and later in the 60s, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn.

She released her second live DVD and album, Live From London in October 2009, which was filmed during her sold out 2008 concerts at London's O2 Arena.

( Parton's March 1983 performance at London's Dominion Theatre from this tour was filmed and broadcast as a television special in the U. S .) From 1984 to 1985, she toured alongside Kenny Rogers for the Real Love Tour.