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Readers' Feedback London Page 3 of 4 Generated : 19th April 2024

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What a great page! I loved some of the stuff on there but I do have one question. I was born in Ealing... who the heck is Gilla (the origin of Ealing's name)? Any ideas?

KryssTal Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. As far as I have found out, Gilla was a feudal lord of some sort. I don't know what he did or anything else about this character. I'll try and find out. I live in Islington which also appears to have been one of his hang outs!

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Sir

On your KryssTal London Page under London Links on London Trains you describe a Cockney as someone who comes from London, this implies that ALL Londoners are cockneys.

The definition of a cockney is a person who is born within the sound of Bow Bells - (Bow being the church of St.Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside).

As a cockney myself, I take exception to this common misconception being perpetuated by incorrect information being published.

This is how great and long standing traditions which form part of our make up and heritage become lost and forgotten !!!!!

Apart from this one great criticism, however, the KryssTal London Page is great.... keep up the good work...

KryssTal Reply: Yes yes yes yes - absolutely correct. The only trouble is that I wrote this to be read by anybody on the WORLD wide web and I felt that the amount of detail may not be understood (translate to "I was lazy"). I'll correct it soon.

Thanks for your comments.

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Hi Kryss:

We are planning for a trip to London and when I read your pages a smile glanced over my face. Gee, these little, but important differences...

Great job!

KryssTal Reply: That's the fun of travel. Hope you have a good time. If you want to try something different [in London], visit an Indian restaurant.

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Kryss,

I came across your London page online and really liked it. I'd like to recommend it to our readers.

My name is Mark Gill. I'm a writer for a monthly publication called Bottom Line in the New York area that goes out to about 800,000 Americans around the U.S. (If you're not familiar with it, you can see a copy at www.boardroom.com).

I'm writing because we're preparing an article for the Fall that focuses on vacations in London. I'd like to interview you for this article.

Interested? We'd need to do this by e-mail within the next week. Let me know if you have time, and I'll give you more details about the article.

KryssTal Reply: Yes I'm interested. However, between 7th and 14th August, I'll be away in Cornwall hoping to catch my 7th total eclipse of the sun so I won't be emailing. Any other time, before or after, will be fine.

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Dear Sir:

Where can I obtain a map of the Tube system for reference when I travel to London next Fall?

Thank you

KryssTal Reply: There is an excellent subway and transport site on

you can download maps from there.

Good luck and welcome (by the way check out my travel and language page - we say AUTUMN rather than FALL)

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Hi Kryss

I saw your web site [and] I'm really interested to know the origin of the name Maida Vale. Do you happen to know? Or have a suggestion for where I could look?

Hope you don't mind me asking.

KryssTal Reply: Sorry about the delay - I woz on holiday!

It appears that in 1806, Napoleon's army were beaten by the British Army in Italy. The place was called Maida and your area is named after this.

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Hi Kryss

I'm part of the London webring and the Ring of Londoners, however I was wondering is we do one of those reciprocal link swaps.

From my tracker I seem to be getting a reasonable number of referrals from your page, so there must be a bit of similarity between the people who are looking at the London Transport pages. Also your link to the travelling on the London Underground site on your links section doesn't seem to be working, so how about replacing it with mine.

I'm very happy to add you to my links page.

Here's a bit of info about my site:

Going Underground?

If you want lots of informative yet humorous information about travelling on the London Underground (the tube - as the locals call it), visit the following site

There's Underground rules, clothes to wear for a crease free trip, sitings of the tube travelling pigeons, buskers and lots more. Definitely worth a visit.

Look forward to hearing from you soon. Fingers crossed.

PS My husband is a quarter Greek - his dad was half Irish and half Cypriot!!

KryssTal Reply: It's done - your site is excellent. I had noted the broken link last week but I usually try again before removing it. It's still down. Would love a link on your page!

Thanks for putting on the link to my site. Yours has now been added to my links page too. Let's hope we both benefit from the swap.

Thanks for your help and good luck to The Gunners in the coming season!!!

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My son is doing an oral presentation on the London Underground and wanted to get information about the Liverpool Street Station and the fact that it was built in a plague pit, but we cannot seem to find any information on that. I understand that several areas of the Underground were built inside of plague pits and if you have any information would you please forward it to me?

KryssTal Reply: I have never heard of this myself. You could try the London Transport Museum - they may have more information. Their email is:

Good luck with the presentation.

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Hello!!

please could you tell me who first designed the london underground map? and in what year? hope you can find me an answer!

KryssTal Reply: Mr Harry Beck.

There is a book Mr Beck's Underground Map by Ken Garland.

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I'm kind of confused on the whole Britain, United Kingdom, England thing and what their differences are.

KryssTal Reply: The name of our country that appears in the United Nations or on our passports is (wait for it)

What a mouthful!!!

This is often abbreviated to United Kingdom or the UK. This is a political entity. Rather confusingly, our nationality is British.

The Kingdom is composed of two parts: Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Great Britain is a geographical term for the entire island. On the island of Great Britain there are three countries: England (with the majority of the population), Scotland and Wales.

Northern Ireland is the northern part of the island of Ireland and is at present part of the UK.

Historically, the population of the UK is composed of the Anglo Saxon English and the Celtic Welsh, Scotts and Irish. These are ethnic terms.

So, in London you can be English (ethnic) and live in the UK with a British passport. In Glasgow you are still British and live in the UK but you do not live in England - you live in Scotland and you are Scotts. Not all Brits are English.

I happen to be ethnically Greek. I am British (a citizen of the UK) and a Londoner. So I am British but not English.

Clear?

I hope so...