CAMRA`s pocket-sized walking guide to London is back, this fantastic second edition is packed with fully updated routes, new pubs & pages of fresh content including a selection of special routes from around the city using public transport. Full-colour maps & easy to follow instructions make this a must have book for both walkers & non-walkers who love a good pub & a great pint. ...

London`s pubs & other drinking places, just like its people, its history, traditions & institutions, are fascinating & extraordinarily diverse. This book provides a readable introduction to aspects of the role they have played in the history of the metropolis. What were the differences between taverns & alehouses? What was a `gin palace`? Where do coffee-houses fit into London`s liquid history? Have any of London`s great coaching inns survived? Who was ` Polly` & why did she draw customers to ` Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese` in Fleet Street? Who was Charlie Brown of the Railway Tavern in the West India Dock Road? This wide-ranging book traces the evolution of London`s drinking houses from the earliest times. It suggests that some of the best of today`s hostelries have a history, atmosphere & tradition that mean that visiting them & appreciating the role they have played is essential to an understanding of London as it is today. ...

A pocket-sized quiz book about one of the world`s greatest & most surprising cities. There are over 250 questions, covering everything from Sherlock Holmes to the guards of Buckingham Palace, & a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true or false, odd one out & ` What am I?` ...

Even the most devoted Anglophile will learn something new from these four hundred fun & wide-ranging trivia questions about London`s history, monuments, architecture, famous residents, place-names, notable events, & more. A delightful way to explore the city on foot or via armchair, this fun book is a perfect stocking stuffer, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts & fascinating, often humorous histories. Here`s a sample: Where is the only cross-eyed statue in London & who does it depict?a) Next to the Royal Exchange in the City of London; George Peabody, the nineteenth-century American-born philanthropistb) At the point where Fetter Lane & New Fetter Lane converge; John Wilkes, the eighteenth-century politicianc) Islington Green; Sir Hugh Myddleton, the seventeenth century entrepreneur Answer: b) John Wilkes really did have a severe squint, as reproduced in the statue, but despite his looks, he was a legendary & eloquent womanizer who once said that, when meeting an attractive woman, it took him only ten minutes”to talk away his face.” What drowned nine people in Tottenham Court Road in October 1814?a) A water flood from a nearby reservoirb) A milk flood from a nearby dairyc) A beer flood from a nearby brewery Answer: c) A beer flood. A huge vat in the Horseshoe Brewery burst its hoops & ruptured other vats standing near it. More than a million liters of beer swept through the walls of the brewery & into the streets, carrying away a house & drowning nine unfortunates. The site of the Horseshoe Brewery is now occupied by the Dominion Theatre. ...

First published to critical acclaim in 2006, then in an enlarged & updated second edition in 2009 to include more detail, this new fully revised third edition of the London Railway Atlas will be warmly welcomed by all enthusiasts. This fascinating book gives a detailed mapping of the myriad of lines which traverse the city, including both London Underground & ex-BR networks. Each map also illustrates the geographical relationship between the overground & underground network, which will be invaluable for modellers. All the maps on the large format pages show all tracks & platforms. Through constant research, the author has amassed a vast amount of new information, both present day & historical, on the most complex railway network in the British Isles. The atlas shows all the lines in London, both open & closed, stations, changes of station name, & station opening & closing dates. All changes which have affected both the surface & underground networks have been included & the atlas is intended to reflect the network at the point of the Olympic opening ceremony. For the third edition, the author has redrawn every map to a much higher degree of accuracy & added much more detail on industrial railways. All the recent openings on London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (LOROL) & the Docklands Light Railway are shown, & further LOROL expansion & Crossrail is shown under construction. One of the biggest changes in this edition is the conversion of all dates from a simple YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY format, & plenty more research has taken place to provide a near complete chronology of all lines & stations (including goods yards). The new edition also

Includes:: better mapping of watercourses for context, inclusion of place names, & conversion of text boxes to lower case rather than plain capitals. The coverage has also been expanded slightly out to some logical places on the edge of London, e.g. Windsor, Tilbury, Gravesend, Redhill, so there are more standard map pages (74 versus the current 48), giving an increased number of pages for this edition of 128 pages. The author also shows electrification & gauge maps of all of London (i.e. all of London on a single page showing different electrification & gauges over the years). This comprehensive atlas has proved to be an indispensable work of reference to railway enthusiasts & London historians & the fully revised new edition will continue to be required reading.

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London in the Michelin Red Guides series; hotel & restaurant guides that have an unparalleled reputation for reliability & consistency, making extensive use of keyed information to provide detailed & concise reviews. Guides are predominantly intended for the markets they are reviewing &, as such, are more often than not written in the native language (s) of their featured destination, that said, most foreign language guides do come with a range of English language introductory & explanatory information such as thorough details on how to use the guide & a description of its symbol classifications. The obvious exceptions to this structure are locations which already have English as their official language. Guides feature hundreds of hotels and/or restaurants & rate them according to the time honoured Michelin standards. Reviews are arranged alphabetically by location & introduce places & establishments, providing you with details of other relevant Michelin publications, situating the businesses & detailing facilities & services, as well as the all important price range. Establishment descriptions look at the atmosphere, d ...

London in the Michelin Red Guides series; hotel & restaurant guides that have an unparalleled reputation for reliability & consistency, making extensive use of keyed information to provide detailed & concise reviews. Guides are predominantly intended for the markets they are reviewing &, as such, are more often than not written in the native language (s) of their featured destination, that said, most foreign language guides do come with a range of English language introductory & explanatory information such as thorough details on how to use the guide & a description of its symbol classifications. The obvious exceptions to this structure are locations which already have English as their official language. Guides feature hundreds of hotels and/or restaurants & rate them according to the time honoured Michelin standards. Reviews are arranged alphabetically by location & introduce places & establishments, providing you with details of other relevant Michelin publications, situating the businesses & detailing facilities & services, as well as the all important price range. Establishment descriptions look at the atmosphere, d ...

Central London with The City, London’s financial district, & east London’s area from the Stratford International Eurostar station to Greenwich on a tourist street plan from Red Maps presented in a handy concertina format & printed on thick, high quality paper, with thematic indexes for sights, hotels, shopping, etc. The map is in its 10th edition published for 2015. The plan covers London from Kensington Palace & Hyde Park to beyond the Tower of London, & north/south from the bottom of Regent’s Park to the Tate Britain Museum. Rather than show its map scale as the traditional ratio, the publishers indicate coverage east/west as 9.7 km/6 miles & north/south 4 km/2.5 miles (effectively 1:17, 625 approx). On the reverse a separate panel shows a part of east London, from the Eurostar station at Stratford International & the Olympic sites, across the Canary Wharf business area, to the O2 Arena & Greenwich. The plan names tourist sights & important buildings, entertainment venues, selected hotels, etc. Also highlighted are main shopping streets with names of selected individual stores. Underground stations & connections are very clearly indicated. On the reverse are thematic lists of sights & important buildings, hotels, etc. A special panel provides area-by-area recommendation of (mainly fashion) shops. A brief index lists a selection of neighbourhoods & streets/squares & a handful of underground or rail stations. To see other street plans from Red Maps with similar presentation please click on the series link. ...

For thirty years, ZAGAT has reported on the shared experiences of diners. Here are the results of the 2010 LONDON RESTAURANT SURVEY, covering over 1000 restaurants to fit all budgets. No matter the economic climate, London`s appetite for lively dining destinations continues unabated, inspiring ever bolder ventures. For every notable closing, there`s another restaurateur waiting in the wings, often joined by an expensive team of architects & designers & ZAGATSURVEY is always there to note the changes. So whether you are looking for the hippest restaurant, where to dine with celebs or find a London lunch bargain, the new Zagat`s 2010 LONDON RESTAURANTS guide rates & reviews some of the city`s best restaurants. The newest guide delivers Zagat`s signature comprehensive coverage, rating each restaurant on appeal, decor, service & cost. Who will be the winner in the 2010 edition? ...

From fish 'n' chip shops & elegant tea salons to cozy gastropubs, this guide is packed with over 1, 100 of the best places
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