The Vanished City by Tom Bolton

The Vanished City by Tom Bolton

Telling the stories of ten areas of London-some of the city's most famous, and infamous neighbourhoods-which have disappeared from the A-Z.

London is in a state of constant transformation, layer upon layer built up over centuries of destruction and reconstruction. There is so much change all around us that we scarcely notice it, but among the areas now vanished and forgotten are some of the city's most famous, and infamous, neighbourhoods.

Vanished City takes us to ten areas, well-known in their day, which have disappeared from the A-Z. Each chapter tells the stories of places once known to every Londoner, including the most feared neighbourhood in the Western world, London's first Olympic Park, its first port, the original Grub Street, a high society spa resort, an occult square, a landscape of ancient, mythical kings, a notorious slum, and the streets stalked by the first London serial killer.

Lost London lies right under our noses, in places we think we know and places we never thought to visit. Vanished Citypeels back the layers to reveal London as it used to be.

Bolton, Tom: - Tom Bolton has accumulated a lifetime's experience in the international paper industry having worked for a number of major manufacturers as a research and development scientist and in technical and production management and general management. He is author of The international paper trade and, with Clive Capps, is author of the recently published Current practice in environmental reporting the pulp and paper industry and series editor for the Woodhead Current practice in environmental reporting series as a whole.

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ISBN 13	9781907222290
ISBN 10	1907222294
Title	The Vanished City
Author	Tom Bolton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Strange Attractor Press
Year published	2014-12-08
Number of pages	256
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