This was a well organised shorter walk which went from Green Park to Covent Garden. Following lots of reports of some tour groups in 3 figures yesterday it was good to see that there would be Able separate groups following the same route and they were hoping to limit each group to 50 using stickers. I was in the first group to leave and our guide wads Ian who shared lots of London and tube trivial in this walk which is a new one this year.
Facts included
•Jubilee line is the only tube line that crosses all the others
•Bank is the only tube station with one syllable
•on the tube map where lines cross each other if one line crosses on top of the other it means it is less deep than the other
•There are no formal flower beds in Green Park because Catherine of Braganza King Charles II’s wife ordered them to be removed after she caught him picking flowers for this mistress in the park.
•At six dials junction in Convent Garden there is a little met police hook which was putntherebfor whenr a police officer needed to direct the traffic and needed to remove their coat
•Jermyn street has a shop Floris thought to be the oldest shop which has remained in the small location and in the same family for the longest time and in the same trade.
•Burlington Arcade has bollards at both ends following a Robbery where they drove the car down the arcade, robbed a shop then escaped by reversing back down there Arcade.
•Wisden cricket almanac had offices near Leicester Square tube and still has cricket bats engraves on the wall.
9/10