On 7 September 1931, the Granada Cinema on Tooting Broadway opened, it was the first cinema to be given Grade I listing due to its marble interior, hall of mirrors and sumptuous decor. Fred Astaire once performed there.

On 7 September 1978 Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov was stabbed by poison umbrella on Waterloo Bridge, he dies 4 days later

In 1999 a man tested his right as a Freeman of the City of London to drive two sheep named Clover and Little Man, across London Bridge

79 Pall Mall is the only building in the street not owned by the Crown. Charles II gave Nell Gwynn the freehold after she refused its lease

From the lower office windows of 16 Farringdon Lane can be seen the original medieval medicinal drinking water of ‘Clerks Well’ from which Clerkenwell takes its name

The future Mary II is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told that she would have to marry William of Orange in 1677

Lambeth Bridge’s statutes symbolise human virtue: for men ironworking building working honour; for women agriculture housework cooking power

The oldest baths building in London which still serves the needs of a functioning swimming pool is the entrance block of Forest Hill Baths

Britain’s earliest supplier of rackets balls in the 19th century Mr Maling of Woolwich learnt his craft as an inmate at King’s Bench Prison

In 1989 a version of the famous FX-4 London taxi went on sale in Japan badged as the ‘Big Ben Novelty Car’, no records exist as to the number of buyers

During World War I a giant postal sorting office was located in Regent’s Park handling 2 billion letters in the world’s largest wooden structure

London has a population density ten times higher than anywhere else in Britain with its residents speaking over 300 languages

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A guide to the symbols used here and source material can be found on the Trivial Matter page.