- London Bridge: "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down..." (children's rhyme)
- Gloucester: "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain..." (as above)
- Buckingham Palace: "...Christopher Robin went down with Alice..." (poem by A. A. Milne?)
- Guilford: "...somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and not from Guilford after all." (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.)
- Islington: something about the phone number of a flat in Islington where Arthur had met Trillian at a party? (ibid.)
- Fenchurch St Station: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, by Douglas Adams.
- West Ham: a football poster Ron Weasley was unimpressed with because the figures didn't move
- Camden Town: "you little Camden stylie!" (Mighty Boosh radio series)
- Topshop: neanderthal replacements for Howard Moon (Mighty Boosh TV series)
- Kentish Town: "Kentish Town, Kentish Town, yeah / Kentish Town, Kentish Town, no!" (Soup Song, ibid.)
- Hackney: "What about the drains at Hackney?!" (The Goon Show)
- East Acton: ibid (don't know why)
- Tottenham: "There was a young lady of Tottenham / who had no manners or had forgotten them..." (Goon Show songs album)
From this list it is clear that most of what I know about England I learned from The Goon Show, The Mighty Boosh and the novels of Douglas Adams. Hmmm.
Highlights of London: yet more astrolabes in the Maritime Museum, Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the Tate Britain, and seeing the Hen and Chickens (the Boosh used to have a residency there, before the TV show or the radio series - I obsessively read the obsessive fan reports. Sounded amazing.)
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