Talk:Berners Street hoax

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Can someone delete this page please? Wwelles14 (talk) 07:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Why? Malleus Fatuorum 14:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

But what I want to know is DID HE WIN THE BET?!?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.251.80.160 (talk) 07:48, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * How could he not have? 174.126.77.212 (talk) 05:23, 4 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Easy -- Some other address may have been the scene of something far more newsworthy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.116.113.143 (talk) 19:56, 27 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Someone else got both Queen Victoria and the Kaiser to show up at a house two blocks over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.234.31 (talk) 01:45, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The Kaiser showing up 60 years before Germany was formed would be quite a trick indeed!--SamHolt6 (talk) 06:30, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

What ? How??
Duke of York? Lord Mayor of London? Archbishop of Canterbury?? Anyone can send cakes and coal but HOW did he get the notables to show up???

P.S. ??? !

P.P.S. The article would be helped by an explanation. 2.31.36.101 (talk) 20:01, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Evidence Hook was perpetrator
This article and that on Hook are missing all details as to evidence he was the perpetrator which seems a great oversight given the sources quoted indicate he never confessed and that all inquiries into the perpetrator's identity proved unprovable. Waerloeg (talk) 14:09, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
I'm reading this book at the moment and she devotes a short chapter to this hoax. She gives the date as November 1810, as do several of the references cited here. Furthermore, she mentions a friend of Hook who denied he was responsible but was responsible for a similar hoax in Bedford Street a few weeks earlier. 2A00:23C7:6701:FC01:8CA2:A6F7:EF7:5B3F (talk) 12:45, 27 September 2022 (UTC)