Square Mile Walks: Six Walks in the City of London

Travel

Belinda Morse

Europe

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Greenwich and Blackheath past

FELIX BARKER

The Westminster Corridor is a convenient name for the group of districts which lay in a direct line from Westminster to the northern limits of Hendon, where Middlesex ends. It covers most of the areas now known as the West End of London, with Westminster, Holborn, Soho, Covent Garden, the Strand, Pimlico, Chelsea, Knightbridge, Paddington, Hampstead and Hendon.  The Author examines in detail the historical and geographical setting for the building of a small monastery on the edge of the flooding Thames, which in time became Westminster Abbey. He describes the founding of the Abbey in the tenth century and the lives of its occupants and those who worked on its lands. He also illustrates the charters and boundaries of the Abbey estates in the hinterland of the City of London, with the aid of 16 pages of colour maps and numerous illustrations, many of which relate to the whole of the County of Middlesex.

The Westminster Corridor: The Anglo-Saxon Story of Westminster Abbey and its Lands in Middlesex

History

Sullivan, David

Ruislip Past

Eileen M Bowlt

Joan David was a retired scientist living in Cumbria. She saw a painting by Percy Kelly in a friend's house December 1982. She wrote to Kelly where he was living in exile in rural norfolk asking to buy a painting. She didn't get a painting but a wonderful painted letter in a beautifully illustrated envelope. He signed his 3rd letter Roberta and a few weeks later wrote in anguish because his wife had left him. This was the beginning of 10 years of beautiful letters some 30 pages long telling of his difficulties, loneliness. problems and retentiveness about his work. He writes about his past life; his childhood, time in the army, the breakdown of his first marriage, his running away with a surgeons wife,his unhappy 7 years in Wales and his final move to rural Norfolk and his change of name to Roberta Penelope. Joan supported and sustained him for 10 years until his death in 1993. During that time she only met him 5 times but she received thousands of letters - each of them a painting with words superimposed. These are selected and illustrated in this lovely book.

The Painted Letters of Percy Kelly: Sent to Joan David 1983-1993

Arts & Photography

Chris Wadsworth

History & Criticism

Mixing grand residences with less salubrious accommodation down the centuries, Notting Hill has been home to aristocrats and politicians as well as Peter Rachman's unhappy tenants, and is associated with artists, writers and political activists plus riots and Carnival.

The Notting Hill & Holland Park Book

Highgate retains its village atmosphere and magnificent views across London. The author relates its history from wealthy Tudor residents through to the expansive Victorian times when Highgate was fortunate to obtain much public green space, and into modern times. It also acquired a cable tramway up its steep hill, a famous school founded in 1565 and one of the most picturesque cemeteries in the country. It has some notable old pubs and boasts one of the few surviving Literary and Scientific Institutions, Past residents include Baroness Coutts, Steel Gibbons and John Betjeman.

Highgate Past

John Richardson

The thought of a ‘lost’ river running beneath a road or house produces interest or consternation. A feature once on the land surface, a symbol of the rural age of London, is somehow more indicative of what is hidden beneath the bricks of the city than any other.\nWhen The Lost Rivers of London first appeared in 1962 it was immediately welcomed by scholars and general readers alike. It remains the only comprehensive study of those water courses, now buried, which sometimes make themselves evident in heavy rains or at the dig of an unwary builder’s earth-remover.\nMany have become part of London’s complex sewer system; others still run sweetly enough to have recreational use. In the past they have formed boundaries, dictated the course of roads and influenced the location of industry. In these ways and others they have contributed to the history of London.\nNicholas Barton’s book has long been out of print and much sought-after. It is reissued complete with all the illustrations and the invaluable fold-out map.

Lost rivers of London: a study of their effects upon London and Londoners, and the effects of London and Londoners on them

Nicholas Barton

Highgate - Its History Since the 15th Century

Sporting London: A Race Through Time

Richard Tames

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