The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by the writer Theodore Hook in Westminster (now part of London) in 1810. After several weeks of preparation he made an apparently spontaneous bet with a friend that he could transform any property into the most talked-about address in London.
The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by the writer Theodore Hook in Westminster (now part of London) in 1810. After several weeks of preparation he made an apparently spontaneous bet with a friend that he could transform any property into the most talked-about address in London.
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