Encyclopædia - London

Currently the Birmingham page has more about London on it than this one does.

Oh, might as well make a list of things that I should put on this page...

• Devonshire Arms
• Intrepid Fox
• Gossips
• (Upstairs at/) The Garage
• Gosh!
• Comics Showcase
• Prince Charles Cinema
• The Globe
• Tate Modern
• Tate Britain
• National Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery
• Victoria and Albert
• Natural History Museum
• Science Museum
• Forbidden Planet
• British Museum
• Museum of London
• Camden places
• The Necropolises / Victorian cemeteries. Created as a result of a campaign that began in 1824 to remove graveyards from areas where they had been causing health concerns. Petition in 1830 and between 1837 and 1841 Parliament authorised establishment of seven commercial cemeteries outside of residential areas.
  1. Kensal Green - opened 1833, first commercial graveyard. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope.
  2. Highgate - opened in 1839. The West Cemetery, Egyptian Avenue, the Circle of Lebanon. Michael Faraday. East Cemetery. Karl Marx, Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot).
  3. Brompton - Emmeline Pankhurst
  4. West Norwood
  5. Nunhead
  6. Tower Hamlets
  7. Abney Park - also known as Stoke Newington. Dissenters and noncomformists (took over from Bunhill Fields). General Booth (Salvation Army).
• Bunhill Fields - created during Great Plague of 1665. Noncomformists. John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, William Blake, Cromwell family members. John Milton lived in Bunhill Row from 1662 until 1674, when he died.

Birmingham!