* There are many Victorian almshouses in Penge, the oldest being the Royal Watermen's Almshouses, built around 1840 by the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the City of London for retired company Freemen and their widows.

Watermen ’ s Cutters also compete annually in the Port of London Challenge, and the Port Admirals ’ Challenge.

He relied heavily upon the Watermen of the Thames, who were then the equivalent of the modern taxi driver, to convey him between the various plying stairs near his workplaces in the City of London and his residence in Chelsea.

There is a legend that in 1715, Doggett was rescued by a Watermen after falling overboard whilst crossing the Thames near Embankment, although this has always been dismissed, along with other myths, by the Fishmongers ' Company, the story continues that in gratitude for his rescue, he offered a rowing wager to the fastest of six young Waterman in their first year of freedom, over the course between " The Swan " pub at London Bridge and " The Swan " pub at Chelsea.

Two bodies, the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks and the Company of Watermen and Lightermen, are recognised as City Companies but without the grant of livery for historical reasons ; three further guilds ( the Company of Educators ; Public Relations Practitioners ; and, Arts Scholars, Dealers and Collectors ) aim to obtain a grant of Livery.

Up to six apprentice Watermen of the River Thames in England compete for this prestigious honour, which has been held every year since 1715.

The guild democracy movement of the period won its greatest successes among London's transport workers, most notably the Thames Watermen, who democratized their company in 1641-43.

John Taylor, the " Water Poet ", petitioned the King on behalf of the Watermen ’ s Company, because of the expected loss of business transporting theatre patrons across the Thames.

The Company of Watermen and Lightermen is a City Guild without Grant of Livery and licenses Thames Watermen.

* 1715-There is a myth that Doggett fell into the Thames, and was saved by Watermen

The Bargemaster is responsible for the Royal Watermen, chosen from the ranks of the Thames Watermen, who operate tugs and launches on the river.

They were closely associated with the watermen, who carried passengers, and in 1700 joined the Company of Watermen to form The Company of Watermen and Lightermen.

Watermen are river workers who transfer passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in Britain and its colonies.

* As the population of Watermen has declined, since 1988 the event has been open to unsuccessful competitors to row again in their second and third years of freedom.

* 1887-race was won by William Giles East who went on to win the Sculling Championship of England in 1891, became a Queen's Watermen in 1898, and Barge Master to the King in 1906.

He published several novels, including the novelisation of his Doctor Who serial " The Mind Robber " for Target Books ; three novels in the " Crown House " series, Crown House ( 1988 ), Crown Papers ( 1989 ) and Crown Wars ( 1996 ); three in the " Docklands Saga " or " Watermen " series, High Water ( 1991 ), Flood Water ( 1992 ) and Storm Water ( 1993 ); two stand-alone novels, Halfway to Heaven ( 1994 ) and Happy Tomorrow ( 1995 ); and bodice-rippers under the name Petra Lee.

There are 24 Royal Watermen, each of whom receives an annual salary of £ 3. 50.

At the coronation the Royal Watermen walk in the procession behind The Queen ’ s Bargemaster.

At the State Opening of Parliament The Queen ’ s Bargemaster and four Royal Watermen travel as boxmen on coaches, guarding the regalia when it is conveyed from Buckingham Palace to Westminster and back.

The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

*, formerly HMS Atlas, used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London from 1881-1904

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

" Station X ", " London Signals Intelligence Centre " and " Government Communications Headquarters " were all cover names that were used during the war, and the latter ( GCHQ ) was adopted for the successor peacetime organisation that still bears this name.

These trains are used for InterCity services from London to the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

He concentrated more on the piano than any other instrument, and his time in London in 1791 and 1792 generated the composition and publication in 1793 of three piano sonatas, opus 2, which idiomatically used Mozart's techniques of avoiding the expected cadence, and Clementi's sometimes modally uncertain virtuoso figuration.

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

The Scoville Memorial Libraries collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London.

The idea of an " aerial torpedo " was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer, where flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

The term " tower " is also used in some cases such as the Tower of London and Jerusalem's ( misnamed ) Tower of David.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

This date format was commonly used alongside the small endian form in the United Kingdom until the early 20th Century, and can be found in both defunct and modern print media such as the London Gazette and The Times, respectively.

Rhyming slang is used mainly in London in England but can to some degree be understood across the country.

The term " Charing Cross " for example ( a place in London ) has been used to mean " horse " since the mid-19th century but does not rhyme unless " cross " is pronounced to rhyme with " course ".

" Berk " ( often used to mean " foolish person ") originates from the most famous of all fox hunts, the " Berkeley Hunt " meaning " cunt "; " cobblers " ( often used in the context " what you said is rubbish ") originates from " cobbler's awls ", meaning " balls " ( as in testicles ); and " hampton " meaning " prick " ( as in penis ) originates from " Hampton Wick " ( a place in London ).

It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football.

Later, the hues were applied by means of wooden blocks, and it was the wooden block printing that was used in London.

Instead the distinction went to the 1884 route from Archway to Highgate, north London, which used a continuous cable and grip system on the 1 in 11 ( 9 %) climb of Highgate Hill.