Unfortunately, these buses were said to have marred the reputation of articulated buses in the United Kingdom, and some Londoners nicknamed them " Chariots of Fire ".

In spite of the successful fix of the problem, the affectionate " wobbly bridge " epithet remains in common usage amongst Londoners.

Initially most visitors would have approached by river, but crowds of Londoners of all classes came to know the area after the construction of Westminster Bridge in the 1740s.

The Levellers ' largest petition, entitled " To The Right Honourable The Commons Of England ", was presented to Parliament on September 11, 1648 after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners.

Finding no support among the Londoners, Essex retreated from the city, and surrendered after the Crown forces besieged Essex House.

As early as 1673, just months after Pierrot had made his debut in the Sequel to " The Stone Guest ", Scaramouche Tiberio Fiorilli and a troupe assembled from the Comédie-Italienne entertained Londoners with selections from their Parisian repertoire.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

The second was An Agreement of the People of England, and the places therewith incorporated, for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom and safety, was presented to Parliament on 11 September 1648 after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners.

The estate, built in 1958 after the arrival of the Metropolitan line, consists primarily of steel framed bungalows, many of which were originally purchased by west Londoners.

Getting home before the Londoners started for the scene, I was at work, and the drawings — minus the boats — were sent in shortly after the news of the race.

The School has three Houses: Gresham, Hale and Whittington ( colours green, red and blue respectively ). These are named after the influential Londoners and school benefactors Sir Thomas Gresham, Warren Stormes Hale and Richard Whittington.

Performances start in the afternoon, enabling Londoners to leave town after lunch, and finish in time for them to catch the last train back.

Johnstone was placed on the transfer list by John Greig in April 1983, and he left Ibrox after the 1983 Scottish Cup Final defeat against Aberdeen to try his luck south of the border with Chelsea, the Londoners paying a fee of £ 30, 000 to secure his signature.

He moved to the South Londoners in the summer of 1987 after their first season as a First Division club, in which they had finished sixth.

Hook was considered as part of a scheme to settle Londoners in the country after the Second World War, but Basingstoke was selected for development instead.

" This fiasco helps explain the rarity of operas in the 1680s, until Londoners had settled down after the Glorious Revolution of 1689.

Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres.

The Heath, a major place for Londoners to walk and " take the air ", has three open-air public swimming ponds ; one for men, one for women, and one for mixed bathing, which were originally reservoirs for drinking water and the sources of the River Fleet.

The Heath has long been a popular place for Londoners to walk and take in the air.

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

However, when V-1s launched from Heinkel He 111s at Southampton on July 7 were inaccurate, British advisor Frederick Lindemann recommended the agents report that the attack caused " heavy losses " in order to save hundreds of Londoners each week at the expense of only a few lives in the ports.

Londoners held their first frost fair on the frozen-over River Thames.

The manor became a popular resort for Londoners due to this rural aspect and many public houses were founded to serve the needs of both visitors and travellers on the turnpike.

However, Queen Victoria disliked Brighton and the lack of privacy the Pavilion afforded her on her visits there, especially once Brighton became accessible to Londoners by rail in 1841, and the cramped quarters it provided her growing family.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

Richard himself also provides some dry remarks in evaluating the situation, as when he plans to marry Queen Elizabeth's daughter: " Murder her brothers, then marry her ; Uncertain way of gain ..." Other examples of humour in this play include Clarence's reluctant murderers, and the Duke of Buckingham's report on his attempt to persuade the Londoners to accept Richard ("...

Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred ; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown.

This was the decree of the state, and it had the effect of making him a martyr in the eyes of the populace and ( along with heavy taxes on Londoners ) bringing about the first Sacheverell riots that year in London and the rest of the country, which included attacks on Presbyterian and other Dissenter places of worship, with some being burned down.

Although the name appears as simply " Old Kent Road " on maps, it is usually referred to by Londoners as " the Old Kent Road ".

He is also celebrated as one of the great Londoners in the " London Song " by Ray Davies on his 1998 album The Storyteller.

She has previously held roles as the Mayor ’ s Road Safety Ambassador and Green Transport advisor, focusing on road safety and cycling in London respectively, as well as being the former Chair of London Food, a mayoral commission which " aims to give Londoners fresher, healthier and more affordable food while reducing the environmental impact of our current food supply ".

This was a task that he took to with clear relish-regional television viewers saw Mr Hill doing a rap in the middle of Trafalgar Square with a baseball hat on back to front to try to encourage young Londoners to vote in the elections.

Three Londoners had applied to Lord Mansfield for a writ of habeas corpus, which had been granted, with Somersett having to appear at a hearing on 24 January 1772.

It was being held on the same day as other local elections and the UK part of the 2004 European Parliament elections, so Londoners had a total of five votes on three ballot papers.

The Evening Standard named Tuffrey as one of the thousand most influential Londoners for his work on the environment.

Following the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, Coleman questioned on radio how safe it was for Londoners to travel by public transport.

Livingstone said " Brian Coleman must explain to Londoners how he can possibly justify spending more on taxis in four weeks than the average Assembly member does in nine months.

For centuries, Putney was a place where Londoners came for leisure, to enjoy the open spaces and clean air.

During the early part of the second quarter of the 19th century, following developments in Paris, Londoners began to demand the creation of open spaces as an antidote to the ever-increasing urbanisation of London.

At the time, the Thames was little more than an open sewer, devoid of any fish or other wildlife, and an obvious health hazard to Londoners.

Apart from piecemeal residential schemes very little change along this route was made until the late 1960s with the London County Council plan of ' Lungs for Londoners ' led to the creation of new open spaces and public parks by demolition of heavily urbanised areas ; the eastern entrance to one of these, Burgess Park, is also located here at the junction with Albany Road.

At his office, Granger's father became acquainted with unemployment benefits recipient Harry Langdon, who advised him to take his son to a small local theatre where open auditions for The Wookie, a British play about Londoners struggling to survive during World War II, were being held.