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Overview
• Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
• Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shopsseries with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide;
• Appeals to both the local market (more than 8.7 million people call London home) and the tourist market (more than 30 million people visit London every year!)
• Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs
• Revised and updated edition
London is full of strange and beautiful sights. It is a place for traditions and rebels, for the establishment and every alternative subculture. This book celebrates the diversity of the city. It invites you to see Little Ben or the fake 10 Downing Street, and answers both conventional and unusual questions. What, apart from Rolling Scones, will you see at God’s Own Junkyard? Where does an old-school gentleman buy his wine and umbrellas? Why did Robbie Williams feud with his next-door neighbor? How has the city commemorated the Queen Mother and Princess Diana? In which park do 100-year-old naked ladies cavort on the banks of the Thames? Where did Lenin and Julian Assange campaign for their beliefs? And which bridge rolls itself up?
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783740816445 |
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| Publisher: | Acc Publishing Group Ltd |
| Publication date: | 08/10/2022 |
| Edition description: | Revised |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.42(w) x 8.19(h) x 0.77(d) |
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Table of Contents
1 10 Adam Street
Not Downing Street 10
2 Albeit Bridge
A frail old soldier 12
3 Angela's Fountain
The gift of a remarkable woman 14
4 Animals in War Memorial
A memorial that touches the heart 16
5 Apothecaries' Hall
A survival from the age of guilds 18
6 The Argyll Arms
A refuge from shopping hell 20
7 The Athenaeum Club
The goddess admits those who are worthy 22
8 The Barbican
A monstrosity or a home with culture? 24
9 Belgrave Square
Family property 26
10 Berry Bros. & Rudd
Wine merchants for 300 years 28
11 Bevis Marks Synagogue
A 300-year-old Jewish community 30
12 The Boat Gardens
Pink blossom on the grey river 32
13 Brixton Market
An explosion of colours and flavours 34
14 Brockwell Park
Adele was moved to tears 36
15 The Brunswick Plane
The urban tree 38
16 Bunhill Fields
Lunch among the tombstones 40
17 Bushy Park
The beginning of a mass movement 42
18 Cabbies' Shelter in Grosvenor Gardens
Huts that are architectural heritage 44
19 Chinatown
An enclave in Soho 46
20 Christie's
Classier than eBay 48
21 The Coade Stone Lion
Unexpectedly humble origins 50
22 Cousin Lane Stairs
Down to a beach on the Thames 52
23 Cross Bones Graveyard
In memory of the outcast and downtrodden 54
24 The Duke of York Column
A man who made it to the top 56
25 East India Dock
Spice and dragonfies 58
26 Eccleston Mews
Ideal homes in the stables 60
27 The Ecuadorean Embassy
Asylum for Julian Assange 62
28 Edgware Road
'Little Beirut' in London 64
29 Eel Pie Island
A refuge for artists and musicians 66
30 Foamier Street
The ghosts of Huguenots and Jewish tailors 68
31 The Fourth Plinth
No more statues of soldiers, please! 70
32 Fulham Market Hall
Street food under a roof 72
33 Fulham Palace
A country seat for bishops 74
34 The Gas Lamp in Carting Lane
Sewers and street lighting 76
35 Gasholder Park
Mirrors of change 78
36 God's Own Junkyard
Rolling Scones and an assault on the eyeballs 80
37 The Golden Boy
Gluttony, fire and body-snatching 82
38 The Greenwich Foot Tunnel
Under the Thames and off to Scotland 84
39 The Grenadier
Cosy, until the ghost appears 86
40 The Hardy Tree
Human jam 88
41 Hawksmoor's Pyramid
An enigma in the churchyard 90
42 The Head of Invention
Inspiration for designers 92
43 Highgate Wood
The remains of an ancient forest 94
44 Holland Park
More than a Dutch garden 96
45 The Horniman Museum
Varied fun for all ages 98
46 Inner Temple Garden
For lawyers and everyone else 100
47 Isabella Plantation
An enchanted garden in the wide green park 102
48 James Smith & Sons
Where a gentleman buys his umbrella 104
49 Jamme Masjid Mosque
A house of three religions 106
50 The K2 Telephone Kiosk
The prototype of a famous design 108
51 The Kindertransport Monument
The place where 10,000 Jewish children arrived 110
52 Limehouse Basin
Post-industrial London 112
53 Lincoln's Inn
A tranquil refuge for lawyers 114
54 Little Ben
Off-message since Brexit 116
55 The Lloyd's Building
Futuristic, yet a monument 118
56 London Stone
The city's mythical foundation stone 120
57 Lord's Cricket Ground
A sacred site for fans of the summer sport 122
58 M. Manze
Eel, pie and mash in Peckham 124
59 The Marx Memorial Library
Lenin, trade unions and the Spanish Civil War 126
60 The Molehill
How a victorious king was laid low 128
61 Mudchute City Farm
Animals for urban children 130
62 The Naked Ladies
Unexpected frolics by the Thames 132
63 Neal's Yard
Alternative lifestyle and Monty Python 134
64 The Niche from Old London Bridge
Stones that were admitted to hospital 136
65 Nunhead Cemetery
Romantic decay 138
66 One New Change
A free vista of London and St Paul's Cathedral 140
67 Orbit
An observation tower on the Olympic site 142
68 The OXO Tower
Architecture as advertising 144
69 Paddington Street Gardens
Keep the city clean and green 146
70 The Peabody Estate in Whitecross Street
150 years of social housing projects 148
71 Peckham Levels
A car park, garish and creative 150
72 The Piccadilly Line
Design and architecture in the Tube 152
73 Pimlico Road Farmers' Market
Mozart and the magic fruit 154
74 Postman's Park
A memorial for unsung heroes 156
75 The Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
Splashing around is tolerated 158
76 The Prospect of Whitby
A last drink for condemned pirates 160
77 Quantum Cloud
Art beneath wide skies 162
78 The Queen Mother Memorial
Horses, corgis and the Blitz 164
79 Queen Square
A green place for parents, children and queens 166
80 Richmond-on-Thames
Where the river takes on a rural character 168
81 Robbie Williams' House
Disharmony among musicians 170
82 The Rolling Bridge
A party piece by a celebrated designer 172
83 The Roman City Wall
Londinium has not quite disappeared 174
84 The Roof Garden
Flowers and concrete 176
85 The Ropewalk
Street food from the railway arches 178
86 Royal Arcade
Connections to the palace are good for business 180
87 The Scalpel
Play video! 182
88 Shad Thames
Sought-after homes in Charles Dickens' slum 184
89 Shoreditch Street Art
Legal or illegal, subversive or sponsored 186
90 Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
A Hindu temple, open to everyone 188
91 Spencer House
Old money, expensive taste 190
92 St Anne's Church, Soho
Where the German king of Corsica is buried 192
93 St Bartholomew-the-Great
The court jester's church, now a film set 194
94 St Bride's
Slender steeple, creepy crypt 196
95 St Helen's Bishopsgate
Christ's message in the financial district 198
96 St John's Lodge Garden
A sequestered spot in Regent's Park 200
97 St Pancras Station
An engineering miracle based on beer 202
98 Three Mills Island
Grinding grain with tidal power 204
99 The Tibetan Peace Garden
A mandala at the cannon's mouth 206
100 Tower Bridge Wharf
A clear view of the river 208
101 The Trafalgar Tavern
Maritime tradition on the Greenwich Meridian 210
102 Trellick Tower
The rehabilitation of an architectural villain 212
103 Tyburn Convent
A shrine to Roman Catholic martyrs 214
104 Waterloo Bridge
One of the best views along the Thames 216
105 The Westbourne
The stream that flows through a Tube station 218
106 The White Building
Art and pizza by the canal 220
107 Whitechapel Gallery
Art for all and a golden tree 222
108 Wilton's Music Hall
Bare boards, crumbling plaster 224
109 The Wimbledon Windmill
A survival from rustic village days 226
110 Word on the Water
The floating bookshop 228
112 Ye Olde Mitre
A well-hidden pub 230