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Author: Haewon Hwang
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-07-31
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0748676090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores how writers such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces and how, in spite of the transformation of London through underground sewers, undergrou
Author: David Bownes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0300245793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author: Stephen Smith
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0748123946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that 'Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, and long lost rivers such as the Fleet and the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best.
Author: Oliver Green
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 2023-10-24
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0711289050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.
Author: Judith Chernaik
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0141389532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.
Author: Bradley L. Garrett
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791381886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeel back the layers under a London street and you'll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of hand-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations, World War II evacuation shelters, secret government bunkers, and tunnel boring machines laying new sewer, communication and transport grids.
Author: Nick Catford
Publisher: Folly Books
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780956440570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the mysterious underground world that lies beneath the streets of London but few have ever had the opportunity to see so many aspects of it first-hand and make a detailed photographic record of all that they have seen. This is one of the two factors that make this book so different from all the others that have come before it. The second factor is the meticulous research that has gone into ensuring that the history and background narrative to each of the locations described and illustrated are both concise and accurate.
Author: Mark Ovenden
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 014199150X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its establishment 150 years ago as the world's first urban subway, the London Underground has continuously set a benchmark for design that many transit systems around the world - from New York to Tokyo to Moscow and beyond - have followed. London Underground by Design is the first meticulous study of every aspect of that feat. Beginning in the pioneering Victorian age, Mark Ovenden charts the evolution of architecture, branding, typeface, map design, interior and textile styles, posters, signage and graphic design and how all these came together to shape not just the identity of the Underground, but the character of London itself. This is the story of some of the most celebrated figures in design history - from Frank Pick, the guru who conceptualised the design of the modern Tube with his idea of 'design fit for purpose', to Harry Beck, the creator of the Tube map, and from Marion Dorn, one of the leading textile designers of the 20th Century, to Edward Johnston, creator of the distinctive font that bears his name. Rich with stunning illustrations, London Underground by Design shows that design is about more than aesthetic pleasure, but is crucial to how we get around.
Author: Mike Goldwater
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781910566619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNostalgic photographs that capture unexpected moments of intimacy and humor on the Underground Think of the London Underground and what comes to mind? Shuffling human traffic, trains whirring through tunnels, tired silent faces. Mike Goldwater's pictures taken in the '70s and '80s, capture the moments of tenderness and life that lie beneath that: the kisses goodbye, the man cradling a cat, another smoking deep in thought, the homeless man curled up next to his belongings. We also see old ticket booths (before Travelcards existed), retro carriages, whisky adverts and bell flares. These images, full of human interaction, take us back to a time when it was fine to talk (and smoke) on our beloved Underground.
Author: David Lawrence
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781854143204
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