London is home to over 3 million gardens from pocket handkerchief front yards to historic horticultural sites like Westminster College Garden (over 900 years old & still thriving). For many city dwellers green has become the new black & a new style of gardening has emerged reflecting London's diverse population. Allotments & community gardens allow gardenless urbanites to enjoy tending plants & harvesting their own food fly by night guerrilla gardeners convert neglected public land into verdant oases while vertical planting techniques create gardens that soar into the sky. Tenacious adaptable & imaginative London gardeners see opportunities in the most unlikely of places
- bombsites railway & canal embankments roundabouts & tree pits. This ground-breaking book celebrates the wealth of London's gardens with an inspirational compost of specially commissioned photographs reviews practical gardening advice & useful listings of horticultural societies & projects plant nurseries & more.
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This is a fantastic chance to spend a night in central London & see a West End show. You will receive top priced seats to your choice of West End shows including: 39 Steps Blood Brothers Chicago Dreamboats & Petticoats Grease
- Friday Matinee Only Naked boys singing
- Saturday Evenings only no matinee Stomp Thriller live We Will Rock you Wicked Woman in Black You will then get to stay the night in a 4-star hotel in the centre of London either a twin or double room with breakfast included. Please note shows are subject to availability & for a full list of shows available in this offer please check on booking.

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Here is London circa 1850s-1930s come to life again in rare original three-dimensional photographs: views of Buckingham Palace the Tower of London & the famous Beefeaters nighttime on the Thames Petticoat Lane the Tower Bridge-and London Bridge when it was still alive & thriving in London. ...

London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes & many landmark buildings destroyed it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion of scientific & artistic genius of blossoming reason civility elegance & manners. It was also an age of extremes: of starving poverty & exquisite fashion of joy & despair of sentiment & cruelty. Society was fractured by geography politics religion & history. & everything was complicated by class. As Daniel Defoe put it London really was a great & monstrous Thing. Jerry Whites tremendous portrait of this turbulent century explores how & to what extent Londoners negotiated & repaired these open wounds. We see them going about their business as bankers or beggars revelling in an enlarging world of public pleasures indulging in crimes both great & small
- amidst the tightening sinews of power & regulation & the hesitant beginnings of London democracy. In the long-awaited finale to his acclaimed history of London over 300 years Jerry White introduces us to shopkeepers & prostitutes men & women of fashion & genius street-robbers & thief-takers as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London.
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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes & many landmark buildings destroyed it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion of scientific & artistic genius of blossoming reason civility elegance & manners. It was also an age of extremes: of starving poverty & exquisite fashion of joy & despair of sentiment & cruelty. Society was fractured by geography politics religion & history. & everything was complicated by class. As Daniel Defoe put it London really was a 'great & monstrous Thing'. Jerry White's tremendous portrait of this turbulent century explores how & to what extent Londoners negotiated & repaired these open wounds. We see them going about their business as bankers or beggars revelling in an enlarging world of public pleasures indulging in crimes both great & small
- amidst the tightening sinews of power & regulation & the hesitant beginnings of London democracy. In the long-awaited finale to his acclaimed history of London over 300 years Jerry White introduces us to shopkeepers & prostitutes men & women of fashion & genius street-robbers & thief-takers as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London.
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This beautifully illustrated book paints a multifaceted portrait of sixties London & explores the reasons why it became the epicentre of a cultural boom that resounded around the world & whose echoes can still be heard today. London in the 1960s was the embodiment of everything that was inspirational innovative & progressive. Powered by the three key elements of youth affluence & the mass media the city became the hub of sixties pop culture with its bold & creative spirit attracting an international cast of artists & luminaries in all fields from pop music & fashion to literature & the visual arts. While a new aristocracy of rockstars & trendsetters ruled the roost Pop art took a witty & detached view of contemporary consumerism & architecture looked towards a utopian future. This title features a stellar array of artists photographers musicians models writers designers & architects presented in context including David Hockney Francis Bacon David Bailey Alan Aldridge Kenneth Tynan Mick Jagger The Beatles Twiggy Jean Shrimpton Ron Heron Richard Hamilton Peter Blake Lucian Freud Dirk Bogarde Julie Christie Marianne Faithful Michael Caine Mary Quant Bridget Riley Diana Rigg & many many more. ...

London Labour & the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry & social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world & a compelling portrait of the habits tastes amusements appearance speech humour earnings & opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope depth & detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining & insecurity mounting a world of criminality pauperism & vice of unorthodox personal relations & fluid families a world from which regularity is absent & prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity imagination & a novelists eye for detail & Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories & in their own words & in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other writes one authority is to cross sides of the same street. ...

For 140 miles the London LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path) follows a green corridor right around the capital offering a circular walk among secret countryside that can make you forget you're within a few miles of Heathrow Airport the A13 or the suburban sprawl of Croydon Watford or Dagenham. Here is rolling downland near Coulsdon the forest of Enfield Chase the lonely Thames marshes at Rainham the classical parkland of Bushy Park & a canalside stroll at Uxbridge. London could not seem further away. Each of the guide's 15 sections represents a day's walk of reasonable length & starts & finishes at a public transport point. ...

The optimum city maps for exploring shopping & much more. The laminated pocket format is easy to use complete with public transport maps. The detailed scale shows even the smallest streets & it

Includes:: an extensive street index. The map also features the Top 10 highlights the city has to offer. Map Scale
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Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy GAME SET & MATCH when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. The spy whos in the clear doesnt exist... Bernard Samson hoped theyd put Elvira Miller behind bars. She said she had been stupid but it didnt cut any ice with Bernard. She was a KGB-trained agent & stupidity was no excuse. There was one troubling thing about Mrs Millers confession
- something about two codewords where there should have been one. The finger of suspicion pointed straight back to London. & that was where defector Erich Stinnes was locked up refusing to say anything. Bernard had got him to London; now he had to get him to talk...
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