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Oranges and Lemons

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"Oranges and Lemons" is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the City of London. [1]

49 relations: Aldgate, Benjamin Till, Big Ben, Bob Chilcott, Change ringing, Cheapside, City of London, Clash City Rockers, David Bowie, Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun, Farthing (British coin), Fleet Prison, Garrison Keillor, Gary Glitter, George Orwell, H2g2, Half-Life 2, Henry VIII of England, It (2017 film), James Halliwell-Phillipps, London, London Bridge Is Falling Down, Neil Gaiman, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nursery rhyme, Old Bailey, Prince Far I, Public execution, Roud Folk Song Index, Sacrifice, Saint Giles, Sean Bean, Shilling (British coin), Singing game, St Clement Danes, St Clement's, Eastcheap, St Dunstan's, Stepney, St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, St Martin Orgar, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Bow, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, The Clash, The Frankenstein Chronicles, The Graveyard Book, The Old Dark House (1963 film), Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, Whitechapel.

Aldgate

Aldgate is an area of Central London, England, within the City of London.

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Benjamin Till

Benjamin Till (born 8 August 1974), is an English composer, director and film maker, who works in the field of through-composed musical documentary, where contributors often tell their stories through the medium of specially written song.

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Big Ben

Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and is usually extended to refer to both the clock and the clock tower.

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Bob Chilcott

Robert "Bob" Chilcott (born 9 April 1955) is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England.

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Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences.

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Cheapside

Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Clash City Rockers

"Clash City Rockers" is a song and single by The Clash.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun

Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun (동, 동, 동대문) is a nursery rhyme sung among Korean children, usually while playing a game.

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Farthing (British coin)

The British farthing (d) coin, from "fourthing", was a unit of currency of one quarter of a penny, or of a pound sterling.

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Fleet Prison

Fleet Prison was a notorious London prison by the side of the River Fleet.

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Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.

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Gary Glitter

Paul Francis Gadd (born 8 May 1944), known by the stage name Gary Glitter, is an English former glam rock singer who achieved popular success in the 1970s and 80s.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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H2g2

The h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopedia project.

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Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 (stylized as HλLF-LIFE2) is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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It (2017 film)

It (also known as It: Chapter One) is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King.

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James Halliwell-Phillipps

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, born James Orchard Halliwell (21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889), was an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Bridge Is Falling Down

"London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey from the street on which it stands, is a court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court.

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Prince Far I

Prince Far I (c. 1944 – 15 September 1983) was a Jamaican reggae deejay, producer and a Rastafarian.

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Public execution

A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." This definition excludes the presence of a small number of witnesses randomly selected to assure executive accountability.

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Roud Folk Song Index

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

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Sacrifice

Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose, in particular divine beings, as an act of propitiation or worship.

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Saint Giles

Saint Giles (Aegidius; Gilles; 650 AD – 710), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a Greek, Christian, hermit saint from Athens, whose legend is centered in Provence and Septimania.

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Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959), known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor.

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Shilling (British coin)

The shilling (1/-) was a coin worth one twentieth of a pound sterling, or twelve pence.

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Singing game

A singing game is an activity based on a particular verse or rhyme, usually associated with a set of actions and movements.

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St Clement Danes

St Clement Danes is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London.

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St Clement's, Eastcheap

St Clement Eastcheap is a Church of England parish church in Candlewick Ward of the City of London.

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St Dunstan's, Stepney

St Dunstan's, Stepney is an Anglican Church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

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St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate

St Helen's Bishopsgate is a large conservative evangelical Anglican church located off Bishopsgate in London.

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St Leonard's, Shoreditch

St Leonard's, Shoreditch is the ancient parish church of Shoreditch, often known simply as Shoreditch Church.

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St Martin Orgar

St Martin Orgar was a church in the City of London in Martin Lane, off Cannon Street, most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons".

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St Martin-in-the-Fields

St Martin-in-the-Fields is an English Anglican church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London.

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St Mary-le-Bow

St Mary-le-Bow is a historic church rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 by Sir Christopher Wren in the City of London on the main east–west thoroughfare, Cheapside.

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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, also known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Holborn), is an Anglican church in the City of London.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Frankenstein Chronicles

The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television period crime drama series that first aired on ITV Encore on 11 November 2015, designed as a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

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The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book is a young adult fantasy novel by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America during 2008.

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The Old Dark House (1963 film)

The Old Dark House is a 1963 comedy-horror film directed by William Castle.

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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book

Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the first anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.

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Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a district in the East End of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons

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