Stunning photographs offer a visual journey through Londons Art Deco style--from factories & underground stations to theaters & private residences This richly illustrated book offers a fascinating & detailed look at the Art Deco style from building design to decorative detail. The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition after which each nation seemed to adapt its own distinct architectural style. Less florid than the French or that of the United States Great Britains buildings reflected the countrys imperial status. From the imposing style of the Savoy Hotel through the ornate detail of the West End theaters to Art Deco factories like the Hoover Building they also demonstrated Britains love of detail. Remarkably many of Londons Art Deco buildings still survive--their once grime-covered indigenous Portland stone now mostly scrubbed clean beautifully displaying their many sculptural details. ...

It is 1938 & the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesnt stop. Everywhere people continue to work drink fall in love fight & struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street Kennington the buttoned-up clerk Mr. Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr. Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs. Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new lodger a self-styled Professor of Spiritualism); & flashy young mechanic Percy Boon whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much much worse. ...

This colourful fold out map of central London is ideal for visitors & tourists. Shopping areas theatres cinemas hotels places of tourist interest bus routes & bike stations all shown. Central London mapped out in an exceptional detailed scale of 1:9 000 (7 inches to 1 mile). MAIN FEATURES This colourful little map is an ideal day trip or tourist purchase. It is packed with useful information including major shops museums theatres selected pubs popular restaurant areas & bike stations. Footpaths & pedestrian areas are shown for those exploring the city by foot. Planning journeys by public transport is made easy with numbered bus routes & underground stations colour coded on the map face to identify the relevant tube line. The key to map symbols is shown in English French German Spanish & Japanese & the index

Includes:: street names places of interest major hotels cinemas hospitals tourist information centres & much more.

Includes:: * Inset map of the new Olympic park map. * The latest congestion charging zone. * Clear easy-to-read street map packed with information. * Places of tourist interest plotted & colour coded. * Handy small format & durable card cover. AREA OF COVERAGE From Kings Cross in the north to Pimlico in the south & from South Kensington in the west to the Tower of London in the east. WHO THIS TITLE IS OF INTEREST TO This product is especially useful to the tourist or day tripper who wants to make the most of their visit to central London.



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This is a guide to Londons distinctive Blue Plaques
- commemorating the remarkable men & women who have lived in the capital. Its
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This is the tenth book in the Alex Cross series. Alex Cross FBI agent is back in his most explosive adventure yet. & so is the Wolf. & so is the Weasel. Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A town in Nevada has been annihilated & the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction & the thought of such dark genius at work makes Alexs blood run cold. Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger. Full of the high-voltage action & enthralling intrigue for which James Patterson is best known LONDON BRIDGES is an unforgettable thriller that will grip you from cover to cover. ...

Maxine Davies writes an emotive story of growing up within an unconventional & often chaotic family during the early 1950s. Love was buried under the mound of family problems." As the eldest child Maxine helped her mother bring up the other children. Her father was a musician who travelled the world so visited the family infrequently. Maxine recalls some very personal experiences of her early years her family ancestry travels abroad & latterly of her success & fulfilment of a career in child care." ...

This work is the first to study the gentlemens clubs that were an important feature the Late Victorian landscape in London & the first to discover the secret history of clubmen & their world. The wealthy men of the British upper classes have often been segregated to the realm of biography or family history lumped in with their middle-class rivals or dismissed as irrelevant in the larger story of Victorian Britain. This book places the English gentleman at center stage detailing how clubland dramatically shaped nineteenth & early twentieth-century ideas about gender domesticity power class & the city. ...

Children will discover the magic & excitement of London with this brilliant new colouring book. From Trafalgar Square to Tower Bridge & Piccadilly Circus to Portobello Road children will be able to put their own colourful stamp on one of the worlds most vibrant cities. The capital will come alive with bright buses & boats cheery Covent Garden performers pearly kings & queens & period patterns. Packed with beautiful & distinctive illustrations featuring a variety of London attractions this is a book to enchant every child. ...

A colouring book for budding artists. It features black & white drawings of many of the main sights to be seen in London from buildings & people to statues & transport. It

Includes:: line drawings that allow the readers to colour them in their own style. Each picture is accompanied by simple but interesting facts about London.

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The streets of London resonate with secret stories from East End lore to Cold War espionage from tales of riots rakes anarchy & grisly murders to Rolling Stones gigs gangland drinking dens Orwells Fitzrovia & Lenins haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the length & breadth of the city to unravel its mysteries travelling through time from the Romans London wall to the new Olympic site at Stratford. This is London as you have never seen it before. ...