The Thames depth varies along its route, at its source, at low tide its about 11 metres, at Woolwich its about 6.5 metres and at London Bridge its about 1.8 metres.
Frank Bostock – Lion Tamer!
It’ll be fantastic when people asked you what you did for a living and you replied ‘lion tamer!’. But Frank Bostock could say that!
Go back in time – its only 5 minutes from Liverpool Street Station!
If you walk north down Bishopsgate for 5 minutes and you get a street off to the right called Folgate Street. At number 18, lies a museum house known as Dennis Severs’ House.
How many horses are there in London?
In 1917, there were 200,000 horses in London, today there are only 200 – of which 180 are stabled and used by the Household Cavalry and 20 are stabled in Bathurst Mews.
Tacitus the Tourist!
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (56AD-120AD) was a senator and historian of the Roman Empire.