Holborn
About Holborn
Holborn is an area in central London, that covers the southeastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.
On the show — 122 mentions total
There's a place in Holborn. I remember walking past it once and I was just looking at the wall and London is full of blue plaques which tell you about its history and up there on the wall it says that this is where ping pong was invented and patented in, I believe, 1901.
from 379: No Such Thing As A Ping Pong Ballbag, 2021-06-25 at 00:07:50 · read transcript
Other times Holborn came up
Generally yeah suffered there is a pub that i'd love for all of us to go to when we're back in pub land amen it's um the dolphin tavern and it's not far from our offices and garden it's up in Holborn and the initial pub that was built on the site was bombed to the ground on the 8th of September at 1915 and it was completely destroyed rubble everywhere and they decided to rebuild it so in the process of moving away.
No Such Thing As A Mead-Based Maasai Gameshow, 2021-07-23 · listen
Yeah, exactly. I like standing in a fast lane when there's no one there. I don't know there's no one there Yeah And that's because you like You like to play with norms You subvert, you twist Exactly You kick rabbits when I don't really Is that still in place That law in Holborn? Which one? The TFO The Tube Law No, no No, no, it was a trial The double-wintergrade thing And it didn't really take off Thanks to my letter writing campaign Yeah, I was going to say The QI officers We are moving And we're moving to Holborn And it's just The sadistic bit of me would love to know that that's now your tube station.
No Such Thing As A Remote Controlled Cabbie, 2023-04-13 · listen
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. He's never not got one. It's one day, one day. That's so cool. That's really cool. We were talking about Holborn earlier. Do you remember when they changed the rules that you're allowed to stand on both sides of the escalator? I do. It's a very long escalator. Were you angry about it? Yeah. Why? I'm going to tell you're incorrect to be angry.
No Such Thing As A Remote Controlled Cabbie, 2023-04-13 · listen
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