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Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of each river and over 100 colour photographs, it's essential browsing for any Londoner and the perfect gift for anyone who loves exploring the past... 'An amazing book' -- BBC Radio London 'Talling's highly visual, fact-packed, waffle-free account is the freshest take we've yet seen. A must-buy for anyone who enjoys the "hidden" side of London -- Londonist 'A fascinating and stylish guide to exploring the capital's forgotten brooks, waterways, cana...
The contribution of successive generations of immigrants is reflected in the variety of places of worship and cultural centres, from chapels to synagogues and mosques, while a century of social housing has produced innovative planning and architecture, now itself of historic interest." "This volume covers the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest. For each area there is a detailed gazetteer and historical introduction. A general introduction provides an historical overview. Numerous maps and plans, over one hundred specially taken photographs and full indexes make this volume invaluable as both reference work and guide."--Jacket.
This is the 7th edition of the Hidden Place of Anglia, one of the Hidden Places most popular titles and will be printed in full colour. The East Anglian counties offer plenty for the visitor to explore in real Hidden Places country. Norfolk is famous for the Norfolk Broads but has a rich and interesting past, gentle hills as well as expansive horizons, delightful pastoral scenes, a beautiful coastline rich in wildlife and many interesting hidden places to visit. Suffolk was made famous by the brush of John Constable and is blessed with incomparable rural beauty, which encompasses wide-open spaces broken by gentle hills and tidal rivers meandering from a coastline teeming with birdlife. Essex...
The Lower Lea Valley was one of the most neglected parts of London until it was somehow chosen as the site for the 2012 Olympic bid. Somehow it won and somehow we got a new part of London. This book captures the drama of how these events were managed, in the words of those involved.
Explore sixty of London's most surprising, secret and fascinating places.
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend.
Recollections from the Remembering Three Mills group. Memories of life and work in the area around Three Mill Lane, Bromley by Bow, London, UK.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of London's bid to host the games was its commitment to legacy where it was argued that ’the legacy would lead to the regeneration of an entire community for the direct benefit of everyone who lives there’. This book adopts a critical approach to the concept of 'legacy' focussing specifically on housing. It argues there will be a range of both intended and unintended legacy outcomes and an urgent need for revised strategies if those original objectives are to be achieved. The concept of legacy is explored in a number of ways, including an overview of housing legacy in other host cities; the experiences and perspectives of those residents decanted...