ASIN: B00DLJD4P0
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 216
A collection of more than 100 stories with..Myths, Legends, Ghosts & Mysteries of historic London, Just like anyone else born in London, we grew up being told stories of the villages where we lived. Many were local legends, like :Did you know that the bell of Big Ben and the Liberty Bell of Independence Hall where the Declaration Of Independence was signed, had been cast at the same London Foundry and both cracked when struck for the first time? Or did you know that in the winter of 1536, King Henry VIII travelled from central London to Greenwich by sleigh on a frozen River Thames? And what about Captain William Kidd a notorious pirate who in 1701 was executed in London - twice !With London being England's Capital city it’s reasonable to expect a few famous names and events to have links here, but in fact there is an abundance of them.Names and events that when you hear them for the ...
