The ultimate pocket map of London! Explore the glorious city of London with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. *

Includes:: 3 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street by street plan of the city centre as well as a detailed street map of the West End & a complete tube map * Additional maps of Southwark the main bus routes & theatreland are also included * Handy self-folding tourist map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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Explore the glorious city of London with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable map will ensure you dont miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street by street plan of the city centre as well as a detailed street map of the West End * Additional maps of the main bus routes the underground & theatreland are also included * Ingenious self-folding map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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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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Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens enclosed by railings & surrounded by houses which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves known as squares are among the most distinctive & admired features of the metropolis & are Englands greatest contribution to the development of European town planning & urban form. Traditionally inhabitants who overlooked these gated communal gardens paid for their maintenance & had special access to them. As such they have long been synonymous with privilege elegance & prosperous metropolitan living. They epitomize the classical notion of rus in urbe the integration of nature within the urban plan
- a concept that continues to shape cities to this day. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan delves into the history evolution & social implications of squares which have been an important element in the planning & expansion of London since the early 17th century. As an amenity that fosters health & well-being & a connection to the natural world the square has played a crucial role in the development of the English capital.
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Ken Blacker follows up his history of the LGOCs 1929 LT type with this equally definitive account of the ST which appeared in the same year. Though all STs were based on the brand new AEC Regent chassis the buses comprised a varied fleet as the pages of this book show. The full story is covered & well illustrated up to the end of the STs in passenger service. ...

This work features 4 sheets at a very detailed scale of six inches to the mile. The massive expansion of the Victorian age produced a demand for detailed maps to determine ownership of land & to plan development. Edward Stanford a leading Victorian cartographer produced these maps to show the railways factories docks & roads that were springing up everywhere. So detailed are these maps that even individual gardens of suburban homes are shown as are separate platforms of the new railway termini & astonishingly even the individual statues in the citys squares. Anyone seeking information about their forebears will be able to see the roads alleyways & outlying villages where they lived; where they went to school; the pubs where they spent their meagre wages; the churches & chapels where they were married & where they attended Sunday services; the factories docks & farms where they worked; also maybe the miserable workhouses where they ended their days & the burial grounds where they were laid to rest. Local historians will find fields separating Hampstead & Kilburn with just the occasional farm; footpaths wandering through open country between Peckham & Dulwich. Closer to the centre the main activity in Parsons Green is market gardening & in Kentish Town there was a vast slaughterhouse with separate sections for sheep & cattle close to the suitably named Butchers Arms public house. Factories for making calico lead shot turpentine & candles as well as distilleries & breweries are marked & along the river are docks & factories for timber flour & all the commodities newly arrived from the rapidly growing empire. Large houses just one deep face onto Clapham Common with farmland at the end of their large gardens. Numerous prisons asylums & orphanages are shown as well as institutions such as The Soldiers Daughters Home The Aged Governess Asylum & a Female Reformatory. The early railways are marked as are the houses of famous people such as Sir Rowland Hill the social reformer who invented the postal service. Noticing what is marked is often as fascinating as seeing what has not yet been developed & together they provide a fascinating glimpse of Mid Victorian London. ...

Piccadilly Pall Mall Old Bailey Houndsditch & Crutched Friars are some of the unusual London street names that must puzzle those who use them daily as much as they puzzle the tourist. How did they arise & what do they mean? This book explains these & over seven hundred & fifty other sin London. The origin of a stret name often reveals unsuspected facts about the history of the area. Many names date back to Saxon times. Sraightforward-looking names are not always what they seem. ...

London Street Photography is published in association with The Museum of London to coincide with the major exhibition on show at the Museum until September 2011. Street photography thrives in London today. It documents the movement diversity & seeming incoherence of the most multicultural city in the world. Its defining characteristic is the keen eye of the photographer catching the moment of a chance encounter a fleeting expression or a momentary juxtaposition in a decisive click. However photographing life on Londons streets is nothing new. The first instantaneous London street scenes were taken in the early 1860s & by the 1890s candid street photographers were snapping Londoners unawares. The 20th century saw many photographers famous & lesser-known continue to capture the daily life of London. London Street Photography showcases the Museum of Londons unique historic collection of photographs. It contains the work of more than seventy photographers & is a fascinating view of London street life of the last 150 years. It

Includes:: the work of well-known photographers such as Paul Martin John Thomson Humphrey Spender Bert Hardy Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Roger Mayne & Tony Ray-Jones as well as the work of many anonymous photographers whose contribution has been just as important in recording the story of the city. The book

Includes:: an introduction by Mike Seaborne Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum in which he outlines the history of street photography in the Capital exploring the shifts in approach as well as the impact of new cameras that could allow photographers to capture the wealth of detail to be found in Londons teeeming streets.



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Everyone is familiar with the iconic. Instead this book takes you on a journey to the heart & soul of London revealing the hidden & stylish places that make this city so incredibly unique & eclectic. There is an essence to London style & you find it in the small off-the-radar places: the one-off shops street markets corner pubs & local restaurants that Londoners themselves go to. These places share a certain eccentricity quirkiness & independence of spirit & thats what this book is all about. London can be big & overwhelming & there are many guide books directing you to the key trophy sights of the city. London Style Guide" breaks it down by village & reveals the places that the locals love. We feature some of the Londoners behind the shops cafes & hotels & ask them to reveal their city secrets. By delivering a carefully chosen selection of the smaller most stylish spots that are revered by the residents visitors feel like locals. Its London up close & personal. This title: is a must-have guide featuring more than 160 h&-picked venues highlighting the most interesting & happening areas throughout London;

Includes:: meet the Londoner section: up close & personal interviews with 17 shop & cafe owners showcasing their favourite local haunts; is beautifully presented & highly illustrated with photographs of all listings including venues interiors food fashion & accommodation; &

Includes:: comprehensive content with map references address & website listings that is practical for visitors & locals alike."



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Although the late R. C. (Dick) Riley was best-known as one of the country's foremost railway photographers whose collection of colour material was probably unrivalled in terms of the years covered less well-known was his interest in road transport. Although a small number of images were taken in colour of buses from the early 1950s including one of the few known images of the original Routemaster when brand new it was from the late 1960s onwards when his career in banking saw him based in London & when his interest in railways declined (like so many he saw the end of steam as a seminal point in Britain's railway history) he was to be seen regularly recording the changing bus scene in & around Greater London. Ironically the last book that he compiled solely drawing upon his own collection was London Transport Buses: A Colour Portfolio that was published in 2001. The original book merely scratched the surface of the numerous images that Dick Riley took of London buses during this 15-year period. In this volume Matt Wharmby whose earlier books on the London Titan & London Metrobus are regarded as the definitive accounts of the history of these two types has thoroughly researched the collection to put together this new all-colour album featuring London Transport buses at the close of its glory days from 1970 to 1984 when the capital was changed forever by tendering. The book

Includes:: introductory text allied to colour illustrations with detailed captions.

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