This day in made up history

This past weekend, we took a fantastic walking tour of London put on by our friends Mark and Gavin.  

I was fantastic.  Saw so many off the beaten path spots around central London, with so many interesting stories only a local would have the insight on.  Only problem was that these son o bitches decided to play a trick on us simple foreign rubes.  Everything Mark told us was a true and interesting historically accurate tie bit about the nooks and crannies of London.  Everything Gavin told us was an outright lie concocted out of thin air.  We being the simple rubes we are, ate it all up and now can't remember who told us what.  So, we have to dismiss everything that we learned as false.  Anyway, some of indisputable facts were that we saw:

The Monument to the fire of 1666 dedicated to the spot where the fire was started on pudding lane, or to the chess match argument that started it.  who knows.

Buhill Fields Cemetery, where either Princess Anne climbed a tree to protest the Vietnam War, or William Blake is buried.

Smithfiled Market, where William Wallace was dragged, hung, drawn and quartered, and disemboweled.

 Roman soldiers barracks dating back to 110AD, revealed only when London was bombed by the Germans during The Blitz.

Guildhall Art Gallery, where there is a fully restored Roman amphitheatre in the basement.

And of course what tour would be complete without a stop in at the Cheshire Cheese, where Sam Johnson and Charles Dickens frequently.