When Did Big Ben First Bong?

Millions live there, millions more visit each year - but how many really know London? Find out: - How New York's famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square - When Primrose Hill almost gained a pyramid even larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops - Why about 640 people came to be drowned in the Thames in a single night - What the royal family might do to escape London if the balloon ever goes up

Well-received by reviewers and readers alike, DAVID LONG's engaging, imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. An author and writer since leaving university, his work has appeared on TV and radio, as well as in The Times, countless magazines and London's Evening Standard. As well as being an award-winning ghostwriter, he has written a number of books on London, including London's 100 Strangest Places, London's 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings, London's Secret Square Mile, When Did Big Ben First Bong?, and the highly successful The Little Book of London.