Downing Street
About Downing Street
Downing Street is a gated street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the prime minister of the United Kingdom and the chancellor of the exchequer in a cul-de-sac situated off Whitehall, it is 200 metres (660 ft) long, and a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament. Downing Street was built in the 1680s by Sir George Downing.
On the show — 34 mentions total
Number 10 Downing Street has a phenomenal lock system in that it has no lock or no door handle. It's just nothing on the front of their door. You can only open it from the inside.
from 15: No Such Thing As A Bulge In Ken's Groin, 2014-06-28 at 00:16:56 · read transcript
Other times Downing Street came up
I miss the colonel. Can I tell you something about adhesion? I think you will like. This is in 2008, a campaigner against a third runway at Heathrow attempted to glue himself to Gordon Brown at a Downing Street reception. He's called Danglass. That'd be terrible because you'd have to spend all Saturday night watching X Factor. He was about to receive an award from the Prime Minister for his campaigning work, and then he stuck out his super-glued hand and touched the Prime Minister's sleeve, and Downing Street later said there was no stickiness of any significance.
42: No Such Thing As A Bloober Reel, 2015-01-10 · listen
I'm stuck in the toilet. Can you go and get me out? Is it because the toilet in 10 Downing Street doesn't have a hand on? Speaking of stealing things, there was in the EU summit in the 2000s, and the catering staff went on strike because they weren't being paid. So when all the politicians and the admin people and whatever went for lunch, there was no staff there, and they raided the whole thing and stole all the cutlery.
No Such Thing As A Bulge In Ken's Groin, 2014-06-28 · listen
She was saying, at 5.30pm, one evening in 1912, relays of women produced from their muffs and handbags, hammers and things like that, and proceeded to methodically smash up windows in all the big London thoroughfares. Mrs. Pankhurst was the one who kind of opened the bowling on that occasion. She threw a stone at 10 Downing Street and then simultaneously all over London, suffragettes and suffragists were throwing stones at various buildings. She was one of them.
No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-02 · listen
I think it, I thought it was. Maybe it's not actually. I don't know. The cabinet office in Downing Street, the Prime Minister chair is the only one with arms on. This has prompted a diplomatic row in the past. In 1979, the president of France, Valerie Giscard Destin, was visiting the UK and he was going to visit Thatcher in the cabinet room. His aides said, yes, could he have a chair with equal status to the Prime Minister please?
172: No Such Thing As A Cat-a-Cops Cartoon, 2017-07-07 · listen
More places from this episode
15: No Such Thing As A Bulge In Ken's Groin put 3 places on the map.
- Des Moines · United States
- Board of Education · United States
Coordinates: 51.5032, -0.1275