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Title
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Won...
ISBN
1473879116
EAN
9781473879119
Binding
Paperback / softback
Date of Publication
2017-07-01
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London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Won...
Artist
John Wade
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Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
London Curiosities: the Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places
Item Height
216mm
Author
John Wade
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books LTD
Topic
Local History, History
Item Width
138mm
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in North London? How many of those who walk past Cleopatra's Needle pause to consider why a 3,000-year-old Egyptian monument stands beside the Thames? How many know that what was once London's smallest police station can be seen in Trafalgar Square? Or that pineapples are used in the architectural design of so many buildings? Or why there are memorials to the 'Mayflower' and Pilgrim Fathers in Rotherhithe? These are just a few of the facets explored, described and illustrated here for anyone in search of the oddly obscure, wonderfully weird and surprisingly strange in this capital of curiosities. AUTHOR: John Wade began his journalistic career on local newspapers, where he worked his way from junior reporter to deputy editor. He was editor of the UK magazine Photography for seven years before becoming a freelance writer and photographer thirty years ago. He has written and illustrated numerous articles on camera history for photographic and collectors' magazines in the UK, America and Australia. He has also written articles on social history for magazines in the UK, and is the author of more than thirty books, published in the UK and US.

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Book Title
London Curiosities: the Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places
Author
John Wade
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Local History, History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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216mm
Item Width
138mm

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John Wade
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