London-what different pictures the word conjures up! To the exiled Londoner, London is a nostalgic place that when living away from for any great length of time, will sure to be remembered for the bustling streets where once they walked, with a sea of red buses and black taxi-cabs it will be a dream of the past they will often miss and will long to return someday. To the visitor, London will offer a wealth of discovery with the quaintness, traditions and the friendly faces on the streets. There is also another face of the hidden side of London and its past, the stranger side that very few will get to know even those that live and work there. The face of London’s history that has been ongoing for more than two thousand years and yet still somehow re-invents its self to bring the past back to life. London is the most visited city of the world, with many people returning again and again. It is the place where most of the world wants to come. Although London is very expensive, there is still so much to see and do that can be had for free. Most of what you see throughout the Knowledge of London website comes free. Our aim is to uncover the things that are less well known about London, things that take you away from the main tours that you will find everywhere you go. We will show you the greenery of London with its parks and gardens, 1,000 in number, 33,00 acres and 10 per cent of its total area, this surprises even the country folk. The first feeling that must greet most visitors to London is bewilderment. London’s vast array of streets, laid without design or forethought. London was not planned. It has evolved into the great metropolis we see today. Londoners may think they already have a good knowledge of London, but there are still many curiosities, and unknown corners that are hidden away behind the commercialised city that is now rising before us.

Knowledge of London launched on Saint George's day (Patron Saint of England) 23rd of April 2004. St George's Day also being Shakespeare's accepted birthday. We are now entering into our fourth year and growing all the time. Every week we add more new pages and articles constantly updating our data base and researching more hidden treasures. Our new bookstore is helping with sales through our partnership with Amazon, so should you want to buy anything it will cost exactly the same price from us and help with our funding. If we have encouraged you to look for the dusty, forgotten side of London, then we have succeeded in our task. If we have whet your appetite enough for you to check out a pint of ale in one of the pubs featured on our pages, or caused you to wander down Fleet Street looking for a haircut at Sweeney Todd’s old barbers shop we are satisfied. If you are a Londoner born and bred or a visitor on their first visit ever to London, you will find this website most interesting and knowledgeable. If you have no intention of ever visiting London you can still enjoy what we have on offer in your own home, and you can feel that you know London as well as anyone ever can.

We do hope that you enjoy the Knowledge of London website as much as we do producing it, and please don’t keep us and all these treasures to yourself, let some of your friends know where to find us, remember that additional updates are ongoing all the time, and new discoveries being revealed, So don’t forget to add us to your favourites to enable your return visits for some more of our virtual taxi-tours of hidden London.

All the best to our many visitors throughout the World, London with its long history is waiting to be revealed and is only a click away.

Roger Sligo.
Knowledge of London

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