10 Places not where you think

1. Hampstead School is not in Hampstead (it's in Cricklewood)

2. Charing Cross Hospital is not in Charing Cross (it's in Fulham)

3. St Marylebone Cemetery is not in Marylebone (it's in Finchley)

4. Clapham Junction is not in Clapham (it's in Battersea)

5. The Kansas City Chiefs are based in Missouri not Kansas. There are two Kansas cities and one is not in Kansas (it's in Missouri)

6. Cardiff airport is not in Cardiff (it's in the Vale of Glamorgan)

7. Munich West airport is not in Munich (it's in Memmingen)

8. Gibraltar Point is in Lincolnshire and Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is in Canada (neither are in Gibraltar)

9. The dead centre of Europe is not at Europos Park, Vilnius, Lithuania, as claimed but eight miles away from there, as the French scientists who calculated the spot had to admit to errors,

10.  The Greenwich Observatory Monument marking the Greenwich Meridian is in fact 102 metres (334 feet) out. Marked in 1851, the calculation was later called into question and GPS and modern instruments have now shown the real spot is in a  park to the east of the observatory.

Charles Wesley

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I had to go down to the Heart Hospital and I noticed that the grave and memorial for Charles Wesley and his family is in a memorial garden in Marylebone High Street near the Parish Church. I've seen John's grave (at the back of the Wesley museum near Bunhill Fields but never this one of his brothers - although I know that area a little - Chiltern Street where the Evangelical Library used to be is nearby).

At the base of the memorial, on its east face, is inscribed:

In 1950 this monument was
removed from its original
position in the graveyard
and finally placed here in
1952

Above this, on the main body of the plinth, is inscribed:

Here lie
the remains of
the Revd
Charles Wesley, MA
who departed this life
the 29th March 1788
aged 80 years.

With poverty of spirit blessed
Rest happy saint in Jesus rest.
A sinner saved through grace forgiven
Redeemd from earth to reign in heaven
And labours of unwearied love
By thee forgot are crownd above.
Crownd through the mercy of thy Lord
With a free full immense reward

On the south face of the main body of the plinth is inscribed:

In memory of
Sarah
wife of the Revd
Charles Wesley, MA
who departed this life
the 28th of December 1822
aged 96 years.

Blessed are the dead which die
in the Lord for they rest from
their labours and their works
do follow them.

On the west face of the main body of the plinth is inscribed:

This monument was erected
ADMDCCCLVIM
by the Methodist Conference
to replace the stone
originally covering
this grave
and which has decayed
In token of their
reverence and respect
for the memory of the Revd
Charles Wesley, MA
brother of the Revd
John Wesley, MA
the founder under God
of the Methodist Connexion

On the lower part of the north face of the plinth is inscribed:

Also of
Samuel Wesley Esq
The eminent musical composer and organist
their second son
who died in October 1837
aged 74 years

Above this on the main body of the plinth is inscribed:

In memory of
Charles Wesley Esq
son of
the before mentioned
Charles & Sarah Wesley
who departed this life
the 23rd of May 1834
aged 77 years.

Flickr Foto Series 31

Marylebone Skyline