Londons East End Then & Now is a superb collection photographs compiled by photographer & successful author Steve Lewis. ...

A unique & unusual guide to Londons hidden & lesser-known sights not found in standard guidebooks. Step beyond the chaos cliches & queues of Londons tourist-clogged attractions to its quirkier side. Discover its loveliest ancient buildings secret gardens strangest museums most atmospheric pubs cutting-edge art & design & much more: some 140 destinations in all corners of the city. Printed in colour. ...

A unique & unusual guide to Londons hidden & lesser-known sights not found in standard guidebooks. Step beyond the chaos cliches & queues of Londons tourist-clogged attractions to its quirkier side. Discover its loveliest ancient buildings secret gardens strangest museums most atmospheric pubs cutting-edge art & design & much more: some 140 destinations in all corners of the city. Written by an experienced London writer & printed in color. ...

Shutting the door on the world outside & embarking on a journey through an historic house releases the magic of time travel. Its an opportunity to recreate imaginatively a specific era peopled by characters whose lives can only be guessed at or to rerun incidents from a well-known biography in their setting. London has an amazing range of houses regularly open to the public & this book covers them all. Architects from Robert Adam to Erno Goldfinger are represented. In social terms the spectrum runs from the destitute who filled the workhouse now known as Vestry House in Walthamstow to aristocrats & royalty busily building & coupling in Kensington & Twickenham. With architectural & social history biographies & practical information this book provides everything visitors need to plan a trip back through the centuries. ...

Many of Londons 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 Londons journey towards becoming the worlds 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. Londons 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 Londons power supply as the starting point for a fascinating hidden history of Britains capital & of the more general development of cities from the era of industrialisation to the present day. ...

The London Olympics of 1908 was intended to reveal Britain & its empire at its zenith. Before the games had ended almost everything that could go wrong had the organisers were universally condemned & it had caused a number of international incidents. When squabbling between Rome & Milan as to who should host the Games became too much they were moved at the last minute to London. Two influential well-meaning but incredibly inefficient English aristocrats picked up the baton & declared that London would show the world how to mount a major international athletics event. The games opened in the pouring rain which was to continue for the whole two weeks. One country insisted that another country march under its banner yet another country complained that it was under the banner of Britain when it shouldnt be & another refused to dip its banner to King Edward causing uproar. Decisions on competitions were questioned contestants were accused of being professionals a rival dropped the shot of the shot-put on the foot of a competitor & one contestant ended up running a race alone. Amongst the chaos there were some class performances but these were by overshadowed by disputes back-biting disqualifications & more even after it finished two weeks later. Olympic Follies is a superb entertaining tale of one of the most fascinating unusual & often hilarious Games ever held
- a must for anyone looking forward to the London Olympics of 2012.
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Londons Secret Walks is a walking book with a difference taking in many of Londons lesser-known but no less worthy sights. As Samuel Johnson said to his friend Boswell in the 18th century on the occasion of the latters arrival in London: survey its innumerable little lanes & courts." By extension wander off the beaten tourist track & youll discover a world of fascinating sights & attractions that not many tourists
- or even Londoners
- get to see."

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The streets & public spaces of London are rich with statues & monuments commemorating the citys great figures & events
- from Nelsons
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This book is for the passengers & aviation buffs who use London's main airports. It

Includes:: a brief history

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June 2013 sees the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation only the second time in British history a monarch has reached this remarkable milestone. As the event was famously the first of its kind to be televised images from the ceremony inside Westminster Abbey are instantly recognisable & have become iconic. Far less familiar are the scenes in the streets outside however where huge crowds assembled to see a procession of state coaches & historic regiments marching past public buildings festooned with patriotic banners & colourful grandstands erected outside many famous landmarks. At the core of the book is a hitherto private collection of more than 200 images showing London's West End on the day. None has been published before & together they provide a unique & precious record of this historic occasion
- the day of the Coronation as it was seen by ordinary members of the public.
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