The first two London Olympics offer food for thought in the run-up to London 2012 with its multi-billion pound budget during a global economic recession new sporting arenas Olympic villages & high-speed rail links. When Vesuvius erupted in 1906 Italy had to pull out of hosting the Games. London stepped in & delivered new stadia without any government assistance in just two years. In 1948 still recovering from the ravages of war London hosted the Olympics again. The entire budget for the 1948 Games was 760 000 & they turned a profit of 29 000. This history of the London Olympics which concludes with a look ahead to 2012 is a timely & fascinating chronicle of the Games of another age. ...

Handy little full colour map of central London with a high level of detail. Clear mapping of central London from Regent's Park in the North to Kennington in the South & Kensington Gardens in the West to Tower Bridge in the East at a scale of 1:12 500 (5 inches to 1 mile). Inset maps of Olympic Park West End shopping & theatres also included. Clear detailed full colour mapping is presented in a handy format ideal for the pocket or handbag. It is excellent value at only GBP1.99 & covers the most visited area of central London.

Includes:: * Inset map of the new Olympic Park. * Full central area map detail. * Theatres & Cinemas map. * Shopping Map. * Tube Map. * The latest congestion zone boundary. AREA OF COVERAGE Central London from Regent's Park in the North to Kennington in the South & Kensington Gardens in the West to Tower Bridge in the East. WHO THE PRODUCT IS OF INTEREST TO Essential for the short term visitor or day tripper or anyone visiting London on a tight budget.

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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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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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