London Trivia: Scouting for girls

On 4 September 1909, Robert Baden-Powell organised the first rally for all scouts at Crystal Palace with 11,000 boys attending, a number of girls dressed in uniform and calling themselves girl scouts. This led to the founding of the Girl Guides in 1910.

<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13946" src="https://cabbieblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/1ca39-488a3-on-this-day_thumb.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" /On 4 September 1930 the Cambridge Theatre opened with André Charlot’s revue Masquerade starring Beatrice Lillie

In 1952 a Nigerian visitor was fined £50 for committing an indecent act with a pigeon in Trafalgar Square and £10 for having it for tea

In September 2015 the Royal Vauxhall Tavern was given Grade II listing, the first location in the UK to be listed for LGBT significance

Into computing? Half of Charles Babbage’s brain is preserved at the Science Museum, the other half is at the Hunterian Museum

Peter Piaktow aka Peter The Painter was the anarchist gang leader responsible for the murder of 3 policemen at the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911

The Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens holds the record for the longest exhibition by a single female artist in the world

Brick Lane Music Hall, North Woolwich Road in a converted church is the world’s only permanent music hall showing daily Cockney Singsongs

The public reaction to the £400,000 Zion logo for London 2012 Olympics was that it resembles the Simpsons cartoon character, Lisa Simpson performing fellatio

If you say Finsbury Park backwards you get a Krapy Rubsnif and Balham is the only Underground station that doesn’t have any of the letters of the word ‘underground’ in it

Harrod’s has 11,500 bulbs on its façade. To keep its nightly appearance 300 have to be changed every week. But how many men does it take?

Zoological Society of London found that 83 per cent of Londoners when asked to name something commonly found in the Thames declared a shopping trolley

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