Camden Tour Guides - Quickfire 2019-20

Which monarch authenticated the Royal Charter enabling Thomas Coram to found the Foundling Hospital?

On what date?

Which was the first painting donated to the Foundling Hospital?

Who painted it?

Name the former children’s laureate whose portrait was recently commissioned for the Foundling Museum?

Name the protagonist in this author’s series of children’s historical novels based on the Foundling Hospital?

Name the Coronation Anthem composed by George Frideric Handel?

For which monarch was it composed?

Name two famous authors who lived in the same house in Fitzroy Square, though not at the same time.

Name two sites in Cleveland Street associated with Charles Dickens

Who designed the ground level buildings of the current Warren Street Underground Station

Name a significant tall building in neighbouring Bloomsbury designed by the same architect?

Which building in Fitzrovia became the tallest building in the country in 1964?

Who operating the former rotating restaurant at the top of this building?

What is the name of the Toy Museum in Fitzrovia?

In which street can this Toy Museum be found?

Name an artist associated with Fitzrovia who became a ‘Jack the Ripper’ suspect.

In which street in Fitzrovia did this artist have a studio?

Which street forms the northern boundary of Fitzrovia?

What was the street originally called?

Name two highly regarded C18 sculptors, both of whom have work in Westminster Abbey and who have donated art to the Foundling Museum

Name the original painting that formed the altarpiece in the Foundling Hospital Chapel

Who painted this?

In the relief above the fireplace in the Court Room, what does the allegorical figure represent?

What animal also appears in this relief?

Name the artists responsible for the two paintings from the Moses in the Bullrushes story in the Court Room

Name the artist that painted ‘King James’s Hospital in Charterhouse’ for a roundel in the Court Room.

Why wasn’t this artist invited to become a Governor of the Foundling Hospital?

With what words is William McMillan’s sculpture of Thomas Coram’s statue outside the Foundling Museum inscribed?

When was this statue erected here?

Name the journalist/MP who is credited with coining the term ‘Fitzrovians’ from which present day Fitzrovia takes its name.

Immediately prior to being called Fitzrovia, by what name was this area known?

Descendants of Henry Fitzroy owned much of Fitzrovia. Who was Henry Fitzroy’s father?

Who was Henry Fitzroy’s mother?

Name the pioneer of contraception who opened a Birth Control Clinic in Fitzrovia.

In which street did this clinic originally stand?

After which King is Kings Cross named?

Where did a nearby statue of him stand?

Which railway company built Kings Cross Station?

And in what year was it completed?

A ‘larger than life’ statue of a man stands to the right of the ticket office in Kings Cross Statue. What is his name?

Why is he celebrated here?

Name the designer of the distinctive bridge over the Coal Drop Yards.

What is this bridge popularly called?

Where does the Regent’s Canal ‘begin’?

Where does it ‘finish’?

In what year did the Regent’s Canal reach Camden?

And in what year was the canal finally completed?

Name two large internet concerns that have a presence in the Kings Cross Quarter

What is the nickname given to the gasholder frames formerly containing gasholders 10, 11 and 12?

What is contained in these frames now?

Name the architect who designed Kings Cross Station.

What feature in the Kings Cross Quarter is named after this architect?

What is the building at the NW corner of Pancras Square?

What is the motto that appears on the corner of this building?

Which pub stands in Flask Walk?

What did these flasks contain?

In which church in Hampstead did the actress, Dame Judi Dench marry?

Who did she marry?

Name two former uses for Schul or small synagogue in New End

How were the Hampstead Ponds created?

In how many of the Hamsptead Ponds are the public allowed to swim?

Which Hampstead resident was appointed as the first chair of Egyptology in the UK?

At which address in Hampstead did he live?

Name two former residents of Admiral’s House

Name two properties in Hampstead that are now run by the National Trust

Name the creator of the character ‘Svengali’ in his novel ‘Trilby’ who formerly lived at 28 Hampstead Grove.

Who was his grand-daughter, the author of ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Jamaica Inn’ who lived in Cannon Cottage in Well Road for 2 years?

At what number Willow Road is there a distinctive C20 property opened by the National Trust to the public?

Who designed this property?

What is the highest point in London?

How much higher is this above the cross on the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral?

Which institution started out in Montagu House?

Who designed the main body of the building in which this institution is currently house?

Which square was the first in London in London to be called a square?

What is that square called now?

Which was the last church in London built by Nicholas Hawksmoor?

Which figure stands at the top of the steeple of this church?

Who designed the Fitzroy Kimpton Hotel?

What was the Fitzroy Kimpton Hotel originally called?

Name the poet and publisher who had offices of the NW corner of Russell Street

For which publishing house did he work here?

Which church in Queen Square is sometimes nicknamed the ‘Sweeps Church’?

Which famous antiquarian was once rector here?

In which street in Bloomsbury was England’s first hospital catering exclusively for children built?

Before his death in 1937, which novelist gave the rights to the Peter Pan to this hospital?

Which architect designed ‘The Brunswick’ formerly called the Brunswick Centre?

What is the former Renoir Cinema in the Brunswick now called?

Which square in Bloomsbury is regarded as the centrepiece of the Bedford Estate?

Which landscape designer laid out the gardens in this square?

Which architect famous for designing theatres, designed the former Camden Theatre in Camden High Street?

What is that theatre called today?

By tradition, in the lavatories at which Camden Pub did the rivalry between Oasis and Blur first start?

What was (allegedly) trapped in the basement of this pub during it’s construction?

What is the name of the venue that originally opened in 1938 as the Buffalo Club?

A former famous Camden resident’s sister held her wedding reception here. Who was that famous resident?

Which popular gay pub on Camden High Street, famous for its drag cabarets, controversially closed in 2015?

What was this pub sometimes nicknamed?

To what did the Mother Red Cap pub on Britannia Junction change its name in 1988?

What is the club underneath called?

Which former bikers’ pub in Castlehaven Road is considered to one of Amy Winehouse’s favourite pubs?

What caused serious damage to this pub in 2008?

What were the band ‘Madness’ called when they first performed at the Dublin Castle?

In which street is Camden Town is the Dublin Castle?

Who unveiled the statue of Amy Winehouse in Stables Market in 2014?

On the statue, what symbol hangs from her necklace?

What is the sculpture by Anthony Gormley that stands on the roof of the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm Road called?

What did Gilbey’s store in the Roundhouse?

Amy Winehouse died of alcoholic poisoning aged just 27. On what date did she die?

Where was Amy Winehouse living when she died?

The former Metropolitan Borough of Holborn forms one of the three Metropolitan Boroughs that were merged to form the London Borough of Camden in 1965. Name the other two.

To which saint is a 700 year old church in Ely Place dedicated?

Which courtier, a firm favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, was allowed to rent land in a part of the Ely Place area?

Until 2016, which international diamond corporation had its London HQ on Charterhouse Street?

Who founded this corporation in 1888?

In which church at the west end of Holborn Viaduct did William Marsden find a dying girl?

Name the hospital William Marsden founded as a result of this incident?

What is the grand neo-Gothic building that stands on the site of Furnival’s Inn now called?

Which novel did Charles Dicken’s write when living in Furnival’s Inn?

The hiding of which fugitive King is recalled in the name of the ‘Penderel’s Oak’ Pub?

Where is ‘Trusty Dick’ buried?

Three men, including the late Oliver Cromwell, were taken from the Red Lion Tavern to be hanged at Tyburn. Name the other two.

What is the name of the biscuit coloured Art Décor building on Red Lion Square?

Opening in 1925, which company commissioned this building?

Name two prominent anti-war activists who are commemorated with statues (or busts) in Red Lion Square

Which Assurance Company built its HQ in a grand neo-classical style at 252 High Holborn?

What is that building now?

Which church is the highest in London?

On the site of which dilapidated house was this built?

Name the informal ceremony that landlords organised in a number of Highgate Pubs?

What honour was bestowed on merchants and drovers who participated in this ceremony?

Where was the first San Francisco style cable car in Europe installed in 1884?

Where was the southern terminus for this and for later trams?

Who re-modelled a house on Hampstead Heath for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield in 1764?

What is this house called?

Who was the driving force behind the ‘Improved Industrial Dwellings Company?

Which of his homes did he give to the newly formed London County Council?

Which famous polymath caught a chill whilst staying at Arundel House in 1620?

What allegedly caused this chill?

Name the highest residence, a block of 64 flats, in London.

Who designed this building?

Name the church on Highgate Hill that is nicknamed ‘Holy Joes’

Name the tavern that formerly stood on the site of ‘Holy Joes’

Name the distinctive modernist housing estate in Highgate New Town?

Who designed this ground-breaking estate?