London Trivia: Jaws debut

On 19 July 1983, a huge new dinosaur skeleton was unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum. Plumber Bill Walker found a foot-long claw belonging to the flesh-eating beast at a clay pit in Surrey. Palaeontologists reconstructed it and dated the remains at 125 million years old, nicknamed ‘Jaws’ the creature would have been as tall as a double-decker bus, and could have run up to 20 miles an hour. On 19 July 2011 Robert Murdoch’s face was hit with a shaving foam pie thrown by a protester at a parliamentary hearing into phone hacking In Clink Street is the prison of the same name derived from the French “clenche” meaning catch outside of the door as opposed to the inside The height of the Monument measures the same as the distance from its base to the place where The Great Fire of London was started Statistically for some undefined reason would-be suicides prefer to meet their maker from underground stations than from one open to the sky House near Globe Theatre claims…