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Author : Cherry Gilchrist
Publisher : Longman
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0582416604
Tina has no work and no home. She lives on the streets of London, where all she has is her boyfriend Jimmy and her artistic ability. But how will her pictures help her to get a home and a job?
Author : Alistair Hall
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781849946216
A showcase of London’s street nameplates – from the curious to the ornate. All around London, you can find a remarkable public archive of lettering in the city’s street nameplates. A unique collection of styles and forms that stretches back to the 17th century, these little labels hide in plain sight – we use their information daily, but too often fail to really notice them. And they aren’t just visual anchors, telling us where we are; but temporal anchors too, telling us where we’ve come from. This expertly curated collection documents the most significant, beautiful and curious street signs, from enamel plates to incised lettering, the simplest cast iron signs to gloriously ornamental architectural plaques. It’s a visual and typographical journey through the history of a great metropolis. Along the way, the fascinating stories behind these unassuming treasures are uncovered, revealing where they came from before being affixed to brick or stone for decades to come. We’re introduced to the iconic nameplates of the City of Westminster, the stunning tiled signs of Hampstead and the revival nameplates of Lambeth, as well as the ghost signs of the no-longer existent NE postal district. London Street Signs is a striking visual record of our collective history that will appeal to design and history enthusiasts alike.
Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : City dwellers
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000093988
Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Literary landmarks
ISBN : BSB:BSB10281882
Author : John WILLIAMS (Patentee of Sub-Ways.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023484412
Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : London (England)
ISBN : BL:A0018312661
Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022386970
Author : Stephen Benatar,William J. Fishman
Publisher : Five Leaves Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Amnesia
ISBN : 0907123562
The Streets of East Londonis an illustrated guide to the most vibrant area of London. For 25 years this has been a classic text, and steady seller in many London shops. Suitable for tourists, historians, and anyone interested in the history of London.The Streets of East Londontalks about the East End, from the Huguenots of the seventeenth century to the Bangladeshis of today. William (Bill) Fishman talks about the area’s poverty and attempts to relieve it, the successive waves of immigration, crime (including Jack the Ripper and the Krays), the radical movement, and ends with suggested walking tours.The Streets of East Londonis crammed with historic photographs, and more recent images by Nicholas Breach.
Author : John Gay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1716
Category : London (England)
ISBN : BL:A0019788552
Author : Antony Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 1905286325
This book gives an account of features below London: railways, old and abandoned tunnels, security bases, cables, utility supplies, pneumatic tubes, crypts and wells, disused stations, lost rivers and streams. Inckudes recent developments: Channel Tunnel Rail link to St Pancras, Thames Link, East London Line, Cross rail and projects for water and electricity supply.
Author : PAUL. WOOD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916045332
Author : Tamsen Courtenay
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783525706
‘Touching, insightful and human – this book demands a social and, above all, a political response’ Jon Snow Tamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who live on London’s streets, the homeless and the destitute – people who feel they are invisible. With a camera and a cheap audio recorder, she listened as they chronicled their extraordinary lives, now being lived four feet below most Londoners, and she set about documenting their stories, which are transcribed in this book along with intimate photographic portraits. A builder, a soldier, a transgender woman, a child and an elderly couple are among those who describe the events that brought them to the lives they lead now. They speak of childhoods, careers and relationships; their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and regrets; all with humour and a startling honesty. Tamsen’s observations and remarkable experiences are threaded throughout. The astonishing people she met changed her for ever, as they became her heroes, people she grew to respect. You don’t have to go far to find these homegrown exiles: they’re at the bottom of your road. Have you ever wondered how they got there?
Author : J. M. Tyree
Publisher : Redwood Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1503600033
Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and idiosyncratic, obsessive and wry, it offers an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries, retracing some of London's most curious locations. As J. M. Tyree wanders deliriously in "the world's most visited city," he rediscovers and reinvents places that have changed drastically since he was a student at Cambridge in the 1990s. Tyree stumbles into the ghosts of Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Greene, and the pioneers of the British Free Cinema Movement. He offers a new way of seeing familiar landmarks through the lens of film history, and reveals strange nooks and tiny oddities in out-of-the-way places, from a lost film by John Ford supposedly shot in Wapping to the beehives hidden in Tower Hamlets Cemetery, an area haunted by a translation error in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz. This book blends deeply personal writing with a foreigner's observations on a world capital experiencing an unsettling moment of transition. Vanishing Streets builds into an astonishing and innovative multi-layered project combining autobiography, movie madness, and postcard-like annotations on the magical properties of a great city. Tyree argues passionately for London as a cinematic dream city of perpetual fascinations and eccentricities, bridging the past and the present as well as the real and the imaginary.
Author : Oskar Jensen
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781891011436
Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says “Fugitive Slaves” ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city’s dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London’s most compelling period (1780–1870). Piecing together contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and journal entries, historian Oskar Jensen follows the harrowing, hopeful journeys of the city’s poor: children, immigrants, street performers, thieves, and sex workers, all diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, and origin. For the first time, their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history, with its deep inequality that bears an astonishing resemblance to our own era’s divides.
Author : Clare Brant,Susan E. Whyman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191557620
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London. This unique book invites the reader to walk along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating streets of eighteenth-century London in an unusual way. Nine leading experts from the fields of literature, history, classics, gender, biography, geography, and costume, offer different interpretations of John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The poem - a lively, funny, and thought-provoking statement about urban life - accompanies the essays, in a new edition with comprehensive notes. The introduction paints a vibrant picture of London in 1716, depicting Gay's fascinating life and literary world, offering an invaluable guide to the poem. Together, these elements allow the heat, grime, and smells of the underbelly of eighteenth-century London come alive in new ways.
