Why don`t people take more notice of bollards? How often do they stop to look at a coal-hole cover? Why are pub signs largely ignored & Royal Warrants on shops scarcely noticed? Such a grievous situation is about to change with the publication of this, the first book dealing specifically with London Street Furniture. It examines the unconsidered trifles which can be found in bewildering diversity around the streets particularly of the older parts of central London but also elsewhere in the Metropolis. These items help us to understand the growth of London & provide pointers & fascinating insights into its economic & social development as well as the changes in science & technology it has witnessed. Knowing something about street furniture makes a walk around London far more interesting. ...

Highly recommended
- this map is simply streets ahead of all its competitors, as anyone who has explored central London on foot
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London Street Map
- with the most detailed mapping, highly recommended for exploring London on foot
- from Bensons Map Guides

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An early street map of London published a century & a half ago so that passengers in Hansom cabs could check that they were being taken on the shortest route. It shows street names, prominent buildings, docks, factories, canals & the earliest railways in minute detail. Beyond the built up area can be seen the orchards & market gardens of Chelsea & Southwark, the marshes of the Isle of Dogs & the outlying villages of Earls Court, Kentish Town & Bow. Bound in a hardcover jacket. Each map is accompanied by an illustrated booklet which was produced to accompany the original edition & together they provide a fascinating glimpse into life in London a century ago. ...

London Street Photography is published in association with The Museum of London to coincide with the major exhibition on show at the Museum until September 2011. Street photography thrives in London today. It documents the movement, diversity & seeming incoherence of the most multicultural city in the world. Its defining characteristic is the keen eye of the photographer catching the moment of a chance encounter, a fleeting expression or a momentary juxtaposition in a decisive click. However, photographing life on London`s streets is nothing new. The first `instantaneous` London street scenes were taken in the early 1860s, & by the 1890s candid street photographers were snapping Londoners unawares. The 20th century saw many photographers, famous & lesser-known, continue to capture the daily life of London. London Street Photography showcases the Museum of London`s unique historic collection of photographs. It contains the work of more than seventy photographers & is a fascinating view of London street life of the last 150 years. It

Includes:: the work of well-known photographers such as Paul Martin, John Thomson, Humphrey Spender, Bert Hardy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Roger Mayne & Tony Ray-Jones as well as the work of many anonymous photographers whose contribution has been just as important in recording the story of the city. The book

Includes:: an introduction by Mike Seaborne, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum, in which he outlines the history of street photography in the Capital, exploring the shifts in approach as well as the impact of new cameras that could allow photographers to capture the wealth of detail to be found in London`s teeeming streets.



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Everyone is familiar with the iconic attractions of London but Saskia Graville`s London Style Guide
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London Super Scale Street Map at 9 inches to 1 mile (1:7, 040) from Geographers' A-Z Map Company covering most of the Central London of Congestion Charging Zone comes with a separate 32-page comprehensive index booklet listing, streets, selected flats & walkways & places of interest. The plan shows A & B roads annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, junction names, selected car parks & the boundary of the Congestion Zone are marked. Railway, Underground, Docklands Light Railway & River Bus stations/stops are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, educational establishments, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus national grid lines. The index is in a separate, 32-page booklet attached to the map cover &

Includes:: additional lists of hospitals/walk-in medical centres/hospices, plus railway/ Underground/ Docklands Light Railway/river bus stations. This is the 2009 edition of this map. This title is also available in a waterproof & tear-resistant version & as a wall map on paper or encapsulated.

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London Super Scale Street Map at 9 inches to 1 mile (1:7, 040) from Geographers' A-Z Map Company covering most of Central London & the whole Congestion Charging Zone comes with a separate 32-page comprehensive index booklet listing streets, selected flats & walkways & places of interest. The plan shows A & B roads annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, junction names, selected car parks & the boundary of the Congestion Zone are marked. Railway, Underground, Docklands Light Railway & River Bus stations/stops are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, educational establishments, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus national grid lines. The index is in a separate, 32-page booklet attached to the map cover &

Includes:: additional lists of hospitals/walk-in medical centres/hospices, plus railway/ Underground/ Docklands Light Railway/river bus stations. This is the 2012 edition of this map. This title is also available in a waterproof & tear-resistant version & as a wall map on paper or encapsulated.

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Alf Townsend is a London cabbie with nearly fifty years` experience. In his new book, he gathers together for the first time the complete history of London`s cabs in wartime
- not just in the Second World War when cabs were converted for other uses (firefighting, ambulances, armoured personnel carriers, etc), but also in the First World War, when the cabbies had to endure hundreds of zeppelin attacks by night. With over 90 photographs supporting Alf`s usual lively & readable text, this book is sure to reveal a hitherto unknown aspect of the capital in wartime.
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David Fathers presents a unique & richly illustrated guide to the London section of the Thames Path, which runs along both banks of the river from Putney Bridge to the Thames Barrier. Together, the two paths make up a panoramic 40-mile walk through 2000 years of London`s history. From the old docks & wharves that primed the Industrial Revolution, through the heart of British Government, Monarchy & Church to the City of London that took its very existence from the river. From the site of the Putney Debates at St Mary`s Church to Wren`s mighty baroque cathedral of St Paul`s. From the great Victorian engineering works of Sir Joseph Bazalgette & his attempts to clean up a polluted London & the river to the Thames Barrier seeking to protect huge parts of London from rising sea levels. From London Bridge, site of the oldest crossing point, to the Millennium Bridge, the Thames` newest crossing. This book explains the panorama we see today, what came before & how the changes came about. Each double page shows the distance covered so you can plan your own tour of the river. ...