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 is an exciting & informative book containing over 100 full-colour stickers which children can match to the photographs of the famous landmarks of London. The book doubles as a spotters guides with accurate simple descriptions & fascinating facts that allow children to seek out & identify the wonderful things to be seen around the city of London. Space is allocated to each photograph so that details of when & where each sight was spotted can be inserted. The small size allows the book to fit neatly into a pocket so children can spot on the go. ...

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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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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London Travel Guide
- see the city insideout with this handy pocket size city guide The ultimate London guide book! London has
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From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography a poetic & powerful urban history of life & legend beneath London. This is a wonderful atmospheric historical imaginative oozing little study of verything that goes on under London from original springs & streams & Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers & gang hide-outs. The depth below is hot much warmer than the surface & this book tunnels down through the geological layers meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness real & fictional -- rats & eels monsters & ghosts. There is a bronze-age trackway under the Isle of Dogs Wren found Anglo-Saxon graves under St Pauls & the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. In Kensal Green cemetery there was a hydraulic device to lower bodies into the catacombs below -- Welcome to the lower depths." A door in the plinth of statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge leads to a huge tunnel packed with cables -- gas water telephone. When the Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864 the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulphurous fumes & called their engines by the names of tyrants -- Czar Kaiser Mogul -- & even Pluto god of the underworld. Going under London is to penetrate history to enter a hidden world. " The vastness of the space a second earth " writes Peter Ackroyd "elicits sensations of wonder & of terror. It partakes of myth & dream in equal measure."" ...

London Under" is an atmospheric imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London from original springs & streams & Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers gang hideouts & modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers meeting the creatures both real & fictional that dwell in the darkness
- rats & eels monsters & ghosts. From the Anglo-Saxon graves under St Pauls to the hydraulic device in Kensal Green cemetery which lowered bodies into the catacombs below to the fossils uncovered when the Victoria Line was built & the gold bars within the Bank of Englands vaults " London Under" takes you into a hidden world beneath our feet."
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Celebrating 150 years of brilliant Underground history
- this book is packed with puzzles quizzes & games
- with cool things

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