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[BazaJT]

Just heard this on the regional news.Apparently 1,000 years ago this year Gainsborough was the capital of England.This lasted all of 5 weeks.Obviously someone then looked around and thought sod this for a game of ponies and promptly moved the capital elsewhere!

[STMO123]

There is only one history buff, and she is absent.

[albitz]

And long before that it was Colchester iirc.That could never have been a good idea.

[symes]

I thought E  was capitol of England

[Rods2]

Don't forget it was Winchester from the 5th to the 12th centuries. 

Home of Alfred the Great, who by reputation wasn't a very good cook where he burn't the cakes, but no other controvacies are listed, so sorry, don't ask, I don't if he ran summer and winter cart wheels or summer cart wheels all year round.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Don't forget it was Winchester from the 5th to the 12th centuries. 

Home of Alfred the Great, who by reputation wasn't a very good cook where he burn't the cakes, but no other controvacies are listed, so sorry, don't ask, I don't if he ran summer and winter cart wheels or summer cart wheels all year round.

Yes, and Colchester, although that was before the Romans created Londinium in about 50AD, which was destroyed by Queen Boudicca in 60AD, and quickly rebuilt. When the Romans left Britain in 410AD, London fell into rapid decline.  It is believed the Anglo-Saxons started to re-inhabit parts of the area around London around the 5th century, but it was a period of mixed fortune for the later capital.

It was Alfred The Great, King of Wessex, centred on Winchester, that then made London part of his Kingdom in the 10th century after forcing out the Eastern Saxons, with his son eventually ruling from there. After the Norman conquest in 1066, William the Conqueror set about building the main part of the Tower of London to replace an earlier wooden fort. It was then that Westminster Hall was constructed, along with an early London Bridge.  London then never looked back, and although various regional conflicts took place between claiming Barons claiming the throne of England, monarchs then carried on using the City as there capital, although living outside in castles such as Windsor (Henry I), or grand defended palaces such as Hampton Court (Henry IV - VIII), Richmond Palace (Elizabeth I - James I - Charles II).  It was with Buckingham Palace, first used by George III, then from Victoria in 1837 that became the official residence of the British Monarch within the true London.

So London has has it's up's and down's, but is now the great capital of Great Britain. 

[mantahatch]

Don't forget it was Winchester from the 5th to the 12th centuries. 

Home of Alfred the Great, who by reputation wasn't a very good cook where he burn't the cakes, but no other controvacies are listed, so sorry, don't ask, I don't if he ran summer and winter cart wheels or summer cart wheels all year round.

Yes, and Colchester, although that was before the Romans created Londinium in about 50AD, which was destroyed by Queen Boudicca in 60AD, and quickly rebuilt. When the Romans left Britain in 410AD, London fell into rapid decline.  It is believed the Anglo-Saxons started to re-inhabit parts of the area around London around the 5th century, but it was a period of mixed fortune for the later capital.

It was Alfred The Great, King of Wessex, centred on Winchester, that then made London part of his Kingdom in the 10th century after forcing out the Eastern Saxons, with his son eventually ruling from there. After the Norman conquest in 1066, William the Conqueror set about building the main part of the Tower of London to replace an earlier wooden fort. It was then that Westminster Hall was constructed, along with an early London Bridge.  London then never looked back, and although various regional conflicts took place between claiming Barons claiming the throne of England, monarchs then carried on using the City as there capital, although living outside in castles such as Windsor (Henry I), or grand defended palaces such as Hampton Court (Henry IV - VIII), Richmond Palace (Elizabeth I - James I - Charles II).  It was with Buckingham Palace, first used by George III, then from Victoria in 1837 that became the official residence of the British Monarch within the true London.

So London has has it's up's and down's, but is now the arm pit of Great Britain.

Fixed that for you Lizzie 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Don't forget it was Winchester from the 5th to the 12th centuries. 

Home of Alfred the Great, who by reputation wasn't a very good cook where he burn't the cakes, but no other controvacies are listed, so sorry, don't ask, I don't if he ran summer and winter cart wheels or summer cart wheels all year round.

Yes, and Colchester, although that was before the Romans created Londinium in about 50AD, which was destroyed by Queen Boudicca in 60AD, and quickly rebuilt. When the Romans left Britain in 410AD, London fell into rapid decline.  It is believed the Anglo-Saxons started to re-inhabit parts of the area around London around the 5th century, but it was a period of mixed fortune for the later capital.

It was Alfred The Great, King of Wessex, centred on Winchester, that then made London part of his Kingdom in the 10th century after forcing out the Eastern Saxons, with his son eventually ruling from there. After the Norman conquest in 1066, William the Conqueror set about building the main part of the Tower of London to replace an earlier wooden fort. It was then that Westminster Hall was constructed, along with an early London Bridge.  London then never looked back, and although various regional conflicts took place between claiming Barons claiming the throne of England, monarchs then carried on using the City as there capital, although living outside in castles such as Windsor (Henry I), or grand defended palaces such as Hampton Court (Henry IV - VIII), Richmond Palace (Elizabeth I - James I - Charles II).  It was with Buckingham Palace, first used by George III, then from Victoria in 1837 that became the official residence of the British Monarch within the true London.

So London has has it's up's and down's, but is now the arm pit of Great Britain.

Fixed that for you Lizzie 

!!!!!!!!!   I didn't say that!

Cheeky!

[STMO123]

It's the arm pit of Algeria, Turkey, France, Pakistan etc., etc.

[Elite Pete]

I always thought Boudica attacked the romans at colchester not london

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Further to my piece on London and the importance of the monarchs making it the foremost centre of England, I should have made more of the fact that it was the trading importance of the Capital that grew during the 17th and 18th centuries that put it fully on the map, with the 19th century placing it on the World stage as the financial centre.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I always thought Boudica attacked the romans at colchester not london

She first attacked Camulodunum (later Colchester) then went on to raise Londinium to the ground with 25,000 of the residents, who had not already fled the approaching Iceni, killed.

[albitz]

She didnt do a good enough job of Colchester.Its still standing.

[STMO123]

She didnt do a good enough job of Colchester.Its still standing.

Unlike most of the residents.

[Selseybill]

I thought E  was capitol of England

Very good