This black & white photographic wall calendar captures beautifully atmospheric & evocative scenes of London at night in 1910. It features 12 breathtaking lantern slides, a new technique in the nineteenth century that allowed photographs to be projected using lanterns. Informative text accompanies each work & the datepad features previous & next month Os views. ...

London by Pub is a selection of pub walks around historic London by Ted Burning, the former editor of CAMRA’s newspaper. Each pub walk has a historical theme & features between six & twelve classic pubs as well as a number of stop off historic interest points along en-route. The walks, which can be undertaken as a whole of in part, are illustrated on simple black & white overview maps & take in both the grand highways & secret byways of the capital. Pubs & walks are divided in to the following geographical chapters: Belgravia, Kensington, Bayswater, Fleet Street, The City, Smithfield, Clerkenwell, Chelsea, Greenwich, Hampstead, Soho, Oxford Street, St Giles, Covent Garden & Southwark ...

A handy pocket-sized atlas designed for those travelling around London on the Underground. Each tube station is included, along with mapping extending to one mile around showing details of places of interest. It simplifies the process of using the London Underground by listing & indexing all the street names & places of interest in central London to their nearest tube station. These streets & places are then referenced to a map centred on the tube station. The mapped area around each tube station extends to one mile so that all locations shown are within half a mile of the station & therefore within easy walking distance. This atlas contains detailed maps showing streets & important places within walking distance of the nearest tube station, exits from tube stations, tube stations are also colour coded to show connecting lines. It is secifically aimed at visitors who plan to travel by tube, showing all the places which can be easily visited on foot from each of the Underground stations. ...

Did you know that. From Stonebridge Park on the Bakerloo Line you can walk to the largest Hindu temple in Europe? From Ealing Broadway on the Central Line you can walk to the oldest film studios in the world? From Stratford on the Central Line you can walk to, & abseil down, Britain`s tallest sculpture? London is a city of surprises & variety, over 600 square miles packed full of character. & to really know London you must look beyond the obvious; there are broad vistas & quiet corners, iconic sights & grand boulevards, quaint villages, verdant parks, cobbled alleyways, museums, monuments, markets, theatres, & ancient churches. This book unearths & explores a stupendous range of interesting places, some well known, some less well known, some almost unknown, all of within an easy walk of a Tube station. If you want a day out & you want to do something different then London is your town, the Tube is your means & London by Tube is your guide. ...

London: Urbium Londini et West Monasterii c.1736, an exceptionally detailed & unusual map of London published by the Nuremberg-based German company Homann Heirs, successors to the famous cartographer Johann Homann. The map presents a long stretch of the Thames from the Limehouse Dock to Westminster & Grosvenor Square, showing built-up areas on both sides of the river. Not only main but also numerous smaller street & passages are named, as well as wards & districts. Important buildings are highlighted & the Thames itself is decorated with drawings of ships & barges. Large panels present engravings of the city ...

1952, London. When eighteen-year-old debutante Rose Bellamy Gore goes missing in a seedy Soho jazz club the prime suspect is young sax player, Lindon Claremont. Lindon hightails it to Brighton to seek the help of his childhood friend, Vesta, who works with ex-Secret Service Mirabelle Bevan. When Lindon is taken into custody the two women dive into London's underworld of smoky night clubs, fast cars & lethal cocktails to establish the truth. ...

This is a major & definitive history of the counterculture by our pre-eminent chronicler of the cultural underground. London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists & writers, musicians & fashion designers seeking inspiration & success in this great city. In ” London Calling”, Barry Miles explores the counter culture that sprang up in the decades following the Second World War, focusing on the West End & Soho, where the presence of so many artists has established a unique atmosphere; creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic
- the throbbing heart of London. Here are the heady days of post-war Soho when suddenly everything seemed possible, the jazzbars & clubs of the fifties, the teddy boys & the Angry Young Men, Francis Bacon & the legendary Colony Club, the 1960s & the Summer of Love, the rise of punk & the early days of the YBAs. The vitality & excitement of these days & years of change
- & the sheer creativity of London
- leap off the page of this marvellously evocative & riveting book.


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London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists & writers, musicians & fashion designers seeking inspiration & success in this great city. This title explores the counter culture that sprang up in the decades following the Second World War, focusing on the West End & Soho. ...

From the creators of A Possum`s Tail comes another rollicking rhyming adventure. Taking in all the major sights & sounds of the British capital, London Calls zooms past parks & palaces, monuments & museums at a pace that readers of all ages will find exhilarating. In this thrilling tour, led by some of the city`s best-dressed residents, a pearly family, we make the acquaintance of the Gherkin, the Shard & the Eye, not to mention a whole host of other characters who make London the rich & diverse city that it is today. Expressing all of the energy, history & excitement that London has to offer, London Calls is both the perfect introduction to & memento of an unrivalled city. ...

See the sights of London in this fun-filled sticker book. The very best of London s palaces, parks, art galleries, shops, ancient towers, iconic buildings, & historic streets are all here for you to explore, with more than 100 stickers. Among the monuments & mayhem you ll meet some of London s quirky inhabitants, including resident pigeons, & get to explore the sights by boat, bus, bike, & the famous Tube. ” ...