I’m very pleased to be able to announce the winner of the competition to win a £200 Hilton Worldwide hotel voucher to coincide with their ‘Any Weekend, Anywhere’ Winter sale, which offered up to 50% off rooms booked up until 31 January.
The winner, whose encyclopaedic knowledge was evidenced by the fact that she included a ‘fun fact’ against every correct answer, is @Bev_Metallica. Well done Bev! I should also mention some of the other notable competition entries which provided some fascinating facts about London:
- Katie-H and Karen Scammell, who speculated on the identities of the Victorian ‘page 3 babes’ featured in the time capsule buried under Cleopatra’s Needle,
- Matt Osprey’s interesting detail about the significance of the book being held by the statue of Prince Albert
- Michael’s gruesome observation about the Trafalgar Square ‘pigeon stealer’
- Zoe Campbell’s ability to combine a historical fact with celebrity spotting with her note on an early sighting of Courtney Cox in Trafalgar Square
- Julia Bristoe and David Hann’s giggles about fat footballers and the tipsy Churchill
- And Sophia K’s ability to bring us all down to earth with her note on the origins of the sails on the ‘ship in a bottle’, currently gracing Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth – a Brixton Market stall!
Thank you again for taking part, and keep your eyes peeled for another exciting competition which is coming soon!
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