Category: Hints

It is an unusual place to visit at London, but also an impressive one: the Victorian-era Crossness sewage pumping station. The fast growing city had a massive problem to get rid of the human waste produced by the rising number of inhabitants. Initially, cesspits were used that had to be emptied by the night soil men: they’ve put the solid remains (and ‘night soil‘ was the euphemism for them) on their carts and sold them to farmers on the land surrounding the city as fertilizer. On the way back they used the same carts to transport grain into the city. Well, hygiene wasn’t so well developed in these days.

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Wetlands at todays London, is that even possibly? Well it is, but of course the Walthamstow Wetlands aren’t natural. A city like London needs to do water management and that is how these artificial lakes between Walthamstow and Hale were created between 1863 and 1904. The first reservoirs protecting the city from droughts were even dug by hand. Today the wetlands are a protected nature conservation zone which is especially used by birds passing through the metropolitain area.

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2024 was the year when the famous British band Oasis announced their reunion and a tour in 2025 – more than fifteen years after the brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher had split up. And it was also the year in which Millennials where stuck for hours in online queues trying to buy overpriced tickets, failed and then complained for days about the horrible dynamic pricing system and the many guys buying tickets just to get a lot of money by selling them to the real fans afterwards.

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In 1969 The Beatles published their 11th album, one of the most successful albums of all times with still today well known songs like Come Together, Octopus’s Garden and Here Comes the Sun. It was the last studio album of the band and recorded at the Abbey Road Studios in the city quarter St. John’s Wood of London. The band initially wanted to name the album Everest and fly to the Himalaya to shoot the cover picture, but then found it more convenient to just walk out the door and take the picture directly in front of the recording studio.

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If you’re looking for a viewpoint with a good view on the skyline of London you’ve got multiple options in the north of the city. The closest one is probably Primrose Hill in Regent’s Park, close to the zoological garden of London . It is a steep 78 meters high hill and that many people get here at sundown you can already see by the various paths leading up the hill.

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