1 Hours of sunshine range between 5.6 hours per day in January and 12.3 hours per day in July. 2  On balance there are 3158 sunshine hours annually and approximately 8.7 sunlight hours for each day.  On balance there are 0 days annually with measurable frost and in January there are on average 0 days with frost.
The Foundling Hospital was established in 1741 to take in the abandoned illegitimate infants - something no other charitable institution allowed at that time. Early life: Tom (left) with his foster sisters Janet and Monica during his time living with Ethel and Cecil
Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent (Watling Street). It had been a traditional staging post for coaches; the presence of three inns along the main road is the result of that.