Abandoned London Discover The Hidden Secrets Of The City In Photographs

Binding: Hardcover
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. London 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. Includes: - 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
Title: Abandoned London Discover The Hidden Secrets Of The City In Photographs
Author(s): Wignall Katie
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781838860202
Pages: 224 Pages, 200 Photos; 200 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/14/2021
Series: Abandoned
Category: Industrialisation & Industrial History