A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London's leading tour guide Look Up London.\nHave you ever noticed London's tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped structures on the fanciest historic homes? Did you know that the Tower of London used to be a zoo, or about the now defunct London railway that transported over 200,000 people to their final resting place?\nThese are just some of the fascinating details that Blue Badge Tourist guide Katie Wignall reveals in this absorbing guide to the secrets of London hidden in plain sight. Take a journey through London's rich past with these 10 fully guided walking routes and discover a whole world of incredible history hiding above your eye-line, just waiting to be spotted.\nFrom the saucy scandals of Covent Garden to stories of power and intrigue from the City, atmospheric pubs to hidden Roman remains, London is a city bursting with captivating stories which are etched into its very architecture.\nSo, Look Up and discover a London you have never seen before.

Look Up London: Discover the details you have never noticed before in 1 walks

Sports & Outdoors

Wignall, Katie

Hiking & Camping

Greenfinch

Product Description 
With 150 outstanding color photographs, Abandoned London presents a poignant pictorial exploration of the English capital—from forgotten railways lines and underpasses to lost industrial places, movie theaters, churches, and cemeteries. \nLondon is both a bright, modern city with soaring skyscrapers as well as a metropolis hundreds of years old—and, despite its gleaming surface, there is another side to the city, one of secrets, dilapidation, and mystery. Wander through disused stations on the Underground; immense, ornate Victorian sewers and waterworks; crumbling but beautiful Art Deco cinemas and empty swimming pools; bombed-out churches and eerie docklands; and ruined mansions and overgrown cemeteries, all haunting relics from a time gone by. Arranged thematically from transport and industry to residential and recreational, these entries cover both the modern city and the historical metropolis.\nIncludes: 
 - South Kentish Underground Station, closed in 1927 
 - Camden’s horse tunnels 
 - Great Eastern Street, once a place of light industries, now finally being revived 
 - Museum Street, Bloomsbury, with its shuttered shops 
 - Crystal Palace Underpass, built to accommodate Victorian visitors on their way to the Crystal Palace exhibition 
 - Sailmaker’s Factory, Limehouse 
 - Strand Union Workhouse 
 - St Mary’s Lodge, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington 
 - Mansions, Bishop’s Avenue 
 - The First Class Swimming Pool Hall – Ladywell Play Tower 
 - Regal Cinema Highams Park 
 - Archway Methodist Central Hall 
 - Highgate West Cemetery 
 - Ruins of a Victorian Folly, Sydenham Hill Woods\nAbout the Author 
Katie Wignall is a London Blue Badge Guide and Founder of Look Up London, a multi-award-winning London history blog and walking tour company. She runs public walks and private tours across London, specializing in the history off the beaten track. You can find out more at lookup.london and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @look_uplondon.

Abandoned London

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Photography & Video

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Blue Crow Media

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