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Author: Lindsay Collier
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-02-15
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1445621940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Walthamstow has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: James Diamond
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0750989467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalthamstow is well known as the home of William Morris, a former greyhound racing track and the boy band East 17. It's also been home to communities of people for thousands of years. This history tells the unique story of Walthamstow from the area's first Iron Age settlements to its Anglo-Saxon place names, medieval manors, agricultural hamlets and Victorian terraced housing. It includes the area's history in the twentieth century as a suburb of London. The development of Walthamstow is told from the perspective of the people who have lived there and who have helped to shape the place known around Britain today. Their stories are captured using photographs and illustrations, which bring to life how they have lived and worked over the years.
Author: Lindsay Collier
Publisher: Through Time
Published: 2014-02-13
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781445621791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Walthamstow has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Miranda Keeling
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1785787977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'This book is a delight ... the world is full of little surprises, momentary little fountains of pleasure and beauty, that could be visible to all of us if we learned to stop and notice as Miranda Keeling does.' Philip Pullman 'An odd, beautiful book ... Buy an extra copy to give to someone you love.' Neil Gaiman January: A man walking along Caledonian Road falls over onto the huge roll of bubble wrap he is hugging, perhaps for just this sort of situation. Inspired by her popular Twitter account, The Year I Stopped to Notice brings together Miranda Keeling's observations of the magic, humour, strangeness and beauty in ordinary life. Through the changing seasons, on city streets and on buses, in parks and cafes, Miranda notices things: moments between friends, the interactions of strangers, children delighting in the world around them, the quiet melancholy of lost items on the pavement. Accompanied by stunning watercolour illustrations from Luci Power, Miranda's poetic vignettes take us on journeys of discovery and share with us the joy of stopping to notice. September: On a sweltering, packed rush-hour train, my arm suddenly feels lovely and cool, and I look down to see a shopping bag held by the woman beside me - full of just-bought cartons of milk.
Author: Michael Foley
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-10-15
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1445629291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which London's East End has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Joy Travers
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1481796186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is based on 500 letters exchanged between Will and Lizzie Toynbee living in Walthamstow, East London, and their son Stan, who was in Egypt in during First World War. The family was well known in Walthamstow through their involvement in the Brotherhood Movement. Will was president of the Marsh Street Men's Own and Lizzie was president of the complementary Marsh Street Women's Own meetings, which had broken away from Marsh Street Congregational Church. By 1914, the movement had grown from its beginnings in a West Bromwich Congregational Church in the Midlands to a mainly nonconformist membership throughout Britain of 1,200,000, shortly before the war broke out. By the time Stan Toynbee enlisted in the army early in 1915 when the correspondence began, Will was speaking all over the country on the government campaigns. This and Lizzie's experiences and feelings of Stan's absence so far away, form the basis of the 500 letters, which are the reason for the book.
Author: Robert Elms
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 178689212X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.' Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to world-changing events.
Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1445624311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Christopher tells the story of Victoria's rich and fascinating history, one spiced by international adventure as well as the hum drum of commuter travel into central London.
Author: Roger Prior
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1351546015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1530s, five Bassano brothers, who were outstanding wind players and instrument makers, emigrated from Venice to England. Dr Lasocki‘s authoritative new book, the first to be devoted to the family, is a minutely researched account of these brothers, their sons (and a daughter) and their grandsons. The first half of the book discusses the everyday affairs of the family - their relationships, religion, property, law suits, finances, and standing in society. Two chapters, one written by Roger Prior, are devoted to Emilia Bassano, whose identification as thedark lady of Shakespeare‘s sonnets is supported by a wealth of evidence. The second half of the book discusses the family‘s musical activities. At the English Court the Bassanos made up a recorder consort that lasted 90 years; they also played in the flute/cornett and shawm/sackbutt consorts. As instrument makers their fame was spread throughout Europe. The book‘s appendixes present information on the Venetian branch of the family and the musical activities of the English branch since 1665.
Author: John Rogers
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0007557183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches.
