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...that seven hundred years ago the water level of Stockholm was two metres higher than it is today. Then, the outer most edge of Gamla Stan ran just beside Västerlånggatan.

...that Norrbro, which runs between the Royal Castle and Gustav Adolfs torg, was a very exclusive district in the 19th century and a magnet for the city's rich and famous.

...that Birger Jarls Passagen was something of a blue-movie lovers paradise at the turn of the century where you could, for 25 öre, wind through hundreds of naughty pictures in a so called Mutoscope.

...that competition was tough between the small boat owners who shipped Stockholmers over the stretch of water called the Strömmen in the 19th century. The beefy ladies from Stockholm who rowed these craft often fought with young and pretty competitors from outside the city.

...that the Stomatol billboard at Slussen is the oldest neon sign in Sweden. The toothpaste tube was erected in 1909 while the toothbrush and toothpaste was added in the 1930's.

...that there were tunnels which ran between the monasteries in Gamla Stan and the convent at Klara which, it is claimed, were used by light- footed monks to sneak into the not too chaste nuns for secret interludes.

...that Stigberget, where the street Fjällgatan lies, was the site of Stockholm's gallows in the 16th and 17th centuries.