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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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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London Underground By Design is the beautifully illustrated new book from Mark Ovenden the acclaimed author of Great Railway Maps of the World published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Tube in 2013. Since its establishment 150 years ago as the world's first urban subway the London Underground has continuously set a benchmark for design that has influenced transit systems from New York to Tokyo Moscow to Paris & beyond. London Underground by Design is the first meticulous study of every aspect of that feat a comprehensive history of one of the world's most celebrated design achievements & of the visionaries who brought it to life. Beginning in the pioneering Victorian age Mark Ovenden charts the evolution of architecture branding typeface map design interior & textile styles posters signage & graphic design & how these came together to shape not just the Underground's identity but the character of London itself. This is the story of celebrated designers
- from Frank Pick the guru who conceptualised the modern Tube's look under the 'design fit for purpose' mantra to Harry Beck Tube diagram creator & from Marion Dorn one of the twentieth century's leading textile designers to Edward Johnston creator of the distinctive font that bears his name as well as Leslie Green designer of central London's distinctive ruby-red tiled stations & the Design Research Unit's head Misha Black who in the 1960s rebranded British Railways & created the Victoria line's distinctive style & Sir Norman Foster architect of Canary Wharf station. Fascinating.. .authoritative.. .bristles with photographs I've never seen before.. .the book does ample justice to a network that
- overcrowded & overpriced
- is a glorious palimpsest of design". (Andrew Martin Observer). "I wouldn't ordinarily enthuse about one book at such length but this is an important work.. .not because it's an entertaining read (it is) but because it identifies the birth of a brand.. .and records the birth of a new idea
- the transport interchange". (Kevin Mc Cloud Grand Designs Magazine). " Mark Ovenden has devotedly documented the designs associated with [the Underground].. ."addictive" for anyone interested in the look of everyday life". (Telegraph). " This beautifully illustrated history is a worth tribute [to 150 years of design]". (Shortlist). "A wonderful handsome book.. .it makes me want to nerd out get a travel card & whiz out to the strange ends of Metroland or the UFO shape of Southgate station". (Robert Bownes/ Andrew Tuck Monocle Weekly (Radio programme)). Mark Ovenden is a British writer & broadcaster. His previous books are Metro Maps of the World Paris Metro Style & Great Railway Maps of the World. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society & lives in London."



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By documenting & guiding us on the journeys we make every day maps influence the way we navigate & identify with our surroundings. The Underground London Transport & its successor Transport for London have produced & inspired maps which are navigational decorative forms of publicity & works of art. This book which draws on the rich collections of the London Transport Museum sets out to explore this unique form of visual communication. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day Claire Dobbin's fascinating narrative provides a chronological account of the mapping of London's Underground. Starting with the magnificent early twentieth-century decorative maps of Macdonald Gill the evolution of London's diagrammatic Underground map introduced by Harry Beck's iconic 1931 design is expertly told. The legacy of Beck's inspiring design is highlighted through selected maps artworks posters & merchandise. Incorporating design art cartographic social & transport history London Underground Maps provides a fascinating account of the capital's innovative approach to decoding & promoting its complex underground network. An accessible narrative coupled with first-class imagery make this book a must for lovers of art design & cartography as well as the history of London. ...