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Author: Brian Girling
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-05-15
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1445615126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wonderful collection of rare and previously unpublished images of London a century ago, presented in full colour. Over 250 rare colour photographs of London with authoritative captions.
Author: Paul Talling
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2020-04-02
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1409023850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPacked 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, canals and ditches ... it's a terrific book' - Walk 'Pocket-sized, beautifully designed, illustrated and informative - in short a joy to read, handle and use' -- ***** Reader review 'Delightful, informative and beautifully produced' -- ***** Reader review 'A small gem. A really great book. I can't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Fascinating from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************ From the sources of the Fleet in Hampstead's ponds to the mouth of the Effra in Vauxhall, via the meander of the Westbourne through 'Knight's Bridge' and the Tyburn's curve along Marylebone Lane, London's Lost Rivers unearths the hidden waterways that flow beneath the streets of the capital. Paul Talling investigates how these rivers shaped the city - forming borough boundaries and transport networks, fashionable spas and stagnant slums - and how they all eventually gave way to railways, roads and sewers. Armed with his camera, he traces their routes and reveals their often overlooked remains: riverside pubs on the Old Kent Road, healing wells in King's Cross, 'stink pipes' in Hammersmith and gurgling gutters on streets across the city. Packed with maps and over 100 colour photographs, London's Lost Rivers uncovers the watery history of the city's most famous sights, bringing to life the very different London that lies beneath our feet.
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1555970907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first novel, in revised form, from "possibly the best living writer in Britain" (The Daily Telegraph) In The Colour of Memory, six friends plot a nomadic course through their mid-twenties as they scratch out an existence in near-destitute conditions in 1980s South London. They while away their hours drinking cheap beer, landing jobs and quickly squandering them, smoking weed, dodging muggings, listening to Coltrane, finding and losing a facsimile of love, collecting unemployment, and discussing politics in the way of the besotted young—as if they were employed only by the lives they chose. In his vivid evocation of council flats and pubs, of a life lived in the teeth of romantic ideals, Geoff Dyer provides a shockingly relevant snapshot of a different Lost Generation.
Author: Philip Davies
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781909242920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945
Author: Richard Guard
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1843178966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLost London is the story of the city as told through the buildings, parks and palaces that are no longer with us.
Author: Philip H. Davies
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781909242272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribed as a publishing phenomenon, Lost London transports the reader back in time with amazing and evocative photographs. For this revised edition another 16 pages and approximately 50 previously unpublished photographs have been added
Author: Sam Landers
Publisher: Trope Publishing Company
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781732061811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrope London, the second volume in the Trope City Editions series highlighting the world's most architecturally compelling cities, is a highly curated collection of photographic images from an active community of urban photographers who have passionately captured their city like never before.
Author: Nicholas Barton
Publisher: 3RD EDITION
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781905286515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fin
Publisher: Maverick Arts
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848860698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dog Detectives are on their adventures, exploring the sites of London.
Author: Peter Walther
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836554183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe colours of catastrophe: Rediscovered autochrome photography of the First World War The devastating events of the First World War were captured in myriad photographs on all sides of the front. Since then, thousands of books of black-and-white photographs of the war have been published as all nations endeavour to comprehend the scale and the carnage of the "greatest catastrophe of the 20th century". Far less familiar are the rare colour images of the First World War, taken at the time by a small group of photographers pioneering recently developed autochrome technology. To mark the centenary of the outbreak of war, this groundbreaking volume brings together all of these remarkable, fully hued pictures of the "war to end war". Assembled from archives in Europe, the United States and Australia, more than 320 colour photos provide unprecedented access to the most important developments of the period - from the mobilization of 1914 to the victory celebrations in Paris, London and New York in 1919. The volume represents the work of each of the major autochrome pioneers of the period, including Paul Castelnau, Fernand Cuville, Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, Léon Gimpel, Hans Hildenbrand, Frank Hurley, Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud and Charles C. Zoller. Since the autochrome process required a relatively long exposure time, almost all of the photos depict carefully composed scenes, behind the rapid front-line action. We see poignant group portraits, soldiers preparing for battle, cities ravaged by military bombardment - daily human existence and the devastating consequences on the front. A century on, this unprecedented publication brings a startling human reality to one of the most momentous upheavals in history.
