The London Bookplates from Mac & Ninny are fun stickers to label the books, cds & dvds you lend to family & friends, so that they can safely & surely find their way back to you. Sharing your taste in literature, music & film will be easier & a more enjoyable experience. We have all been there, feeling disappointed & wondering who borrowed our favourite book or dvd. From now on, with these bookplates, you can keep track of what you lend & to whom. The packaging contains 12 colourful badges measuring 7.5x 10.5 cm. Write your name & contact details on it & then stick it to the book, cd or film that you want to lend. in addition, the thick card wrapping doubles up as a library record sheet, where you can note who borrowed what & when. The Bookplates from Mac & Ninny are a wonderful idea for book lovers & anyone who likes sharing. Leave your name with fun, colourful & noticeable pictures to remind your friends or family the book is yours &, when they finished with it, you would like to have it back! ...

London on a laminated, so waterproof & tear-resistant map Borch combining several panels to provide coverage of the city & its environs for visitors, including prominent highlighting for London’s 30 best sights. On one side is a street plan with wider coverage than found on most tourist plans, extending from Holland Park & Earl’s Court to the Greenwich & the O2 Arena, & north/south from Regent’s Park & St Pancras International rail terminal to the southern bank of the Thames. An inset at a less detailed scale extends the plan south-west to include Kew Gardens & Richmond Park. Names of tube stations are conveniently annotated to show the lines, various places of interest & facilities are prominently highlighted, & the plan also indicates locations of selected hotels. On the reverse the West End & the City are shown in greater detail & clarity. Another panel shows the Greater London area, including road access to Heathrow, Gatwick & Stanstead Airports, Windsor, etc. All the plans & the road map are indexed. Also provided are more detailed plans with access to the three airports, a diagram of London’s Underground/ Overground network, climate diagrams, plus an administrative map of UK. ...

2015 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the London boroughs, the thirty-two subdivisions of Greater London laid out to facilitate public services. Professor Tony Travers provides some explanatory history as to why London`s government is so fragmented, along with a section on each borough. London`s Boroughs at 50

Includes:: an analysis of how London has changed from 1965 to 2015, going from `swinging` London to `global` London. Along the way, it looks at some of the personalities who have led London`s boroughs or had an impact upon them, including Ted Knight, Ken Livingstone, Dame Shirley Porter &, of course, Boris Johnson.

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London in the Stanfords Maps of London Boroughs (PRINT ON DEMAND/FLAT MAPS) is designed & produced in-house by the digital department at our Long Acre store. The poster map shows both an administrative map of London Boroughs as well as a coloured relief map with borough boundaries overprinted. The outer edges include population charts for 2001 (census) & 2010 (estimated) for individual boroughs; a population increase chart between 2001 & 2010 for individual boroughs; areas for individual boroughs (both in sq km & sq miles); council address, phone number, email & website for each borough; & shows main areas names for each borough *PLEASE NOTE:*- The map is available in A0 size.- Borough maps are FLAT WALL MAPS & will be delivered rolled in a postal tube. ...

In 1968, American businessmen Robert P. Mc Culloch & C. V. Wood bought London Bridge, had it dismantled & transported it piece-by-piece to Arizona. Three years later, the re-erected landmark opened in Lake Havasu City. A slice of old England had arrived in the desert. Travis Elborough's London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing is a tale of one of the stranger episodes of Anglo-American relations: why did the Americans want it? How do you transport a 280-metre bridge 3, 000 miles across the Atlantic? Did Londoners bemoan a lost landmark? These questions are answered by a cast of Disneyland creators, chainsaw inventors, Swedish businessmen &, at the end of the process, cameos from Tom Jones & The Carpenters: characters as unlikely & eclectic as the story itself. Charming, funny & revealing
- this is a story primarily about a classical granite bridge, but also the humans who shaped its future. Get your copy today!
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In 1968 the world`s largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3, 000 miles? & why did Robert P. Mc Culloch, a multimillionaire oil baron & chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it? Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert? Did he even get the right bridge? To answer these questions, it`s necessary to meet a peculiar cast.

Features: Fleet Street shysters; Revolutionary Radicals; Frock-coated industrialists; Disneyland designers; Thames dockers; Guinness Book of Records officials; The odd Lord Mayor; Bridge-building priests; Gun-toting U.S. sheriffs; & an Apache Indian or two. & a fraudster whose greatest trick was to convince the world he ever existed Roll up, then, for the story of one of the strangest events in Anglo-American relations. Curious, clever & sharp, this is history to delight in.

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London Bridge Station area of London in 1872-1893 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

The Thames from its source to London Bridge on a cloth-backed reproduction of an “ Oarsman’s & Angler’s” map, published in 1889 by James Reynolds & Sons. The map, 170cm / 67” long, shows locations along the river with the network of roads & railway lines. Locks & bridges are annotated with measurements for clearance, etc, & the map also provides recommendations for nearby hotels. Place names & accompanying notes are easy to read in this size reproduction. Each individual cloth-backed map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper – no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of all the titles in this series from the Old Folding Maps please click on the series link. ...

This exquisite book, a design object in its own right, contains 45 stylish depictions of London`s best buildings, created by influential design duo Robin Farquhar & Hannah Dipper of People Will Always Need Plates. These outstanding graphic illustrations, with their clean lines & bold blocks of colour, have been used by the company on a successful range of plates, mugs & other objects, but this is the first time they have appeared in book form. This long-awaited collection covers a range of architectural styles, from Sir Christopher Wren`s 1675 Greenwich Royal Observatory to Richard Rogers` 2000 Montevetro development, taking in the glorious 19th-century Victoria & Albert Museum, 20s modernist masterpieces such as the Isokon Building & 1960s concrete Brutalist icons like the National Theatre. Buildings of all types are included, from art galleries to gas holders to tower blocks. The authors have included some of the images for which they are best known, such as those of the Trellick Tower & the Barbican, but the book also contains a selection of new images. Each is accompanied by succinct text that sums up why the authors love the buildings they depict.
Includes: a foreword by design expert Max Fraser.
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