People love walking the streets of London, but there are always more questions than answers after a stroll through the capital. Following any of the 13 walks featured in the book will allow the user to walk in the footsteps of authors & statesmen, murderers & revolutionaries. With over 400 full-colour photographs, this book is packed with interesting details about London`s history with both personal tales of those that wandered the same streets in former years & a more general social & economic history of the different areas covered. Each walk is brought to life with thumbnail photos, striking full-page photos & detailed maps illustrating the route & where buildings & points of interest are located. From open sunny squares, to winding alleyways & quiet hidden corners, explore London & discover how 2, 000 years of colourful history have shaped this city. ...

People love walking the streets of London, but there are always more questions than answers after a stroll through the capital. Following any of the 13 walks featured in the book will allow the user to walk in the footsteps of authors & statesmen, murderers & revolutionaries. With over 400 full-colour photographs, this book is packed with interesting details about London`s history with both personal tales of those that wandered the same streets in former years & a more general social & economic history of the different areas covered. Each walk is brought to life with thumbnail photos, striking full-page photos & detailed maps illustrating the route & where buildings & points of interest are located. From open sunny squares, to winding alleyways & quiet hidden corners, explore London & discover how 2, 000 years of colourful history have shaped this city. ...

People love walking the streets of London, but there are always more questions than answers after a stroll through the capital. These books are packed with interesting details about London`s history with fascinating stories & more general historical facts. This box set combines volumes 1, 2 & 3 in an attractive slip case. Each volume contains 12 walks with maps & photographs to bring each walk to life. The box set makes an ideal gift for those interested in exploring the capital & its history on foot. ...

Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous & often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? The story behind the many industries found in the capital is described in this unique book. London once had scores of breweries; the world`s first plastic material was synthesised in the East End; there was even a gasworks opposite the Palace of Westminster. Clerkenwell was a centre for watch & clock makers; the River Thames used to be full of colliers bringing coal from Newcastle; Joseph Bramah invented his water closet & hydraulic pump here, & Henry Maudslay made machines to make machines. Many household names began in London: Schweppes, Crosse & Blackwell, & Vauxhall motor cars. The list of fascinating facts goes on. In this, the first book of its kind on the subject, Geoff Marshall provides an enthralling overview of London`s industrial face through history. ...

* London has more than 15 million visitors a year * Ideal historic souvenir of London * Period maps & illustrations * Sights to see with accompanying map * Also available in 10-copy counterpacks (ISBN 9781849940184) This exciting new series of heritage tourist guides from Batsford gives an authentic flavour of the history of London & will appeal to all lovers of this wonderful city in both the local & tourist markets. London`s Kings & Queens recreates all the pomp & pageantry of royal London & gives fascinating historical information about the great (and not so great) kings & queens who have lived there over the centuries, from Boudicca to the present day. Discover where Henry VIII built his palaces, the fate of the Princes in the Tower & why Windsor Castle became a favourite royal residence. This absorbing guide to the royals in London is an essential companion for Londoner & tourist alike. ...

London`s Lost Battlefields hides the ghosts of bloodshed & rebellion from Boudicca to the devastating but little known Zeppelin attacks of the First World War. The Peasant`s Revolt of 1381 saw murder & plunder in central London, notably at The Savoy, where the present day hotel is located laid claim to thirty-two rebels who whilst drinking wine in the cellar were trapped by fire & falling masonry & over several days died there. St Albans was the site of two vicious battles during the Wars of the Roses where an eyewitness said that the market place ran with blood. One of the bloodiest battles of the Wars of the Roses took place just north of Barnet. Under a nearby field lie the bodies of between 3, 000 & 4, 000 forgotten soldiers of the Wars of the Roses. This book suggests the location. The Wyatt Rebellion in 1544 saw London streets again awash with blood & gallows set up all over London by Queen ` Bloody` Mary to take her revenge. 1642 saw two London English Civil Wars battles at Brentford & Turnham Green. Many fleeing Parliamentarian soldiers jumped into the Thames at Brentford & drowned. Some were buried anonymously on Hounslow Heath. Parts of central London still bear the shrapnel marks & memorials relating to Zeppelin attacks that killed 200 Londoners & injured many more. London`s Lost Battlefields tells you where you will find them. ...

Many of London`s original power stations have either been demolished, converted for other use, or stand derelict awaiting redevelopment that is seemingly always just out of reach. However, in their prime these mighty `cathedrals of power` played a vital role in London`s journey towards becoming the world`s most important city. Gasworks also played a key role, built in the Victorian era to manufacture gas for industry & the people, before later falling out of favour once natural gas was discovered in the North Sea. London`s Lost Power Stations & Gasworks looks at the history of these great places. Famous sites that are still standing today, such as those at Battersea & Bankside (now the Tate Modern gallery), are covered in detail, but so are the previously untold stories of long-demolished & forgotten sites. Appealing to anyone with even the slightest interest in London, derelict buildings or urban exploring, this book uses London`s power supply as the starting point for a fascinating hidden history of Britain`s capital, & of the more general development of cities from the era of industrialisation to the present day. ...

From the sources of the Fleet in Hampstead`s ponds to the mouth of the Effra in Vauxhall, via the meander of the Westbourne through ` Knight`s Bridge` & the Tyburn`s curve along Marylebone Lane, ” London`s Lost Rivers” unearths the hidden waterways that flow beneath the streets of the capital. Paul Talling investigates how these rivers shaped the city
- forming borough boundaries & transport networks, fashionable spas & stagnant slums
- & how they all eventually gave way to railways, roads & sewers. Armed with his camera, he traces their routes & reveals their often overlooked remains: riverside pubs on the Old Kent Road, healing wells in King`s Cross, `stink pipes` in Hammersmith & gurgling gutters on streets across the city. Packed with maps & over 100 colour photographs, ” London`s Lost Rivers” uncovers the watery history of the city`s most famous sights, bringing to life the very different London that lies beneath our feet.

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The Thames may dominate London, but it also has 21 tributaries within its tidal stretch in Greater London; over two thirds of them are now partially or wholly lost, buried under streets of houses, channelled in underground tunnels or diverted by the sewer system. This lovely guide traces the course of eight such tributaries, four north of the Thames (Westbourne, Tyber, Fleet & Walbrook) & four south of the river (Peck/ Earl’s Slice, Neckinger, Effra & Wandle). Each chapter provides directions for walkers as well as interesting & informative descriptions of the districts & the sights along the way, with historical notes, richly detailed anecdotes, etc. Accompanying maps tracing each walk along the streets & parks have the original course of the river marked on them, indicating visible & not visible sections. Witty & evocative, the guide invites Londoners & visitors alike to explore the city’s history through exploring its lost rivers. ...

London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping &, occasionally, in stolen goods. As both a major port & the nation`s capital, it was almost inevitable that commerce became the bedrock on which the city has risen to be one of the world`s greatest modern marketplaces. Many of today`s street names remind the observant pedestrian of the commercial centres that were to be found in them in times past: Bread Street, Milk Street & Ironmonger Lane; London`s market history is all around us. Stephen Halliday`s book is a comprehensive account of the long, lurid & often controversial history of London`s markets, from Roman Londinium to the London of Boris Johnson, as well as a guide to visiting them (and emerging with a bargain). He explores the historic markets still in existence, & the sites of those that no longer exist, & recounts the fascinating stories of the famous, not-so-famous & sometimes infamous Londoners who have populated them, both as buyers & sellers, through the ages. ...