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London Plaques

London Plaques

London Plaques
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London Plaques

London Plaques

Overview

London's buildings are dotted with commemorative plaques. Many are the famous blue plaques, indicating where a famous person was born, lived, stayed, or if a significant event took place there, or an earlier use of the site. This book is a comprehensive gazetteer of all of London's plaques. Using Derek Sumeray's classic book as a basis, this thoroughly revised new edition arranges plaques alphabetically by area, providing a text that is linked to London's geography and, therefore, of greater use to a resident or visitor wanting to explore the famous people and events commemorated in that area.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780747811558
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/20/2011
Series: Shire Library , #568
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Derek Sumeray retired early from a successful business career and took up photography, which led to a scheme to photograph every plaque in London. Since there was no guide to these plaques to help him, he wrote it himself.

John Sheppard was introduced to London by his father, a Soho policeman, who pointed out the Roman senators on Liberty's Regent Street skyline with the injunction to look up as you walk around. This advice has served him well ever since, both during a successful thirty-year globe-trotting career as a documentary film maker, and most recently in re-exploring his native city for this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

The City of London 6

The City of Westminster 24

Westminster 1 Lisson Grove, Maida Vale and St John's Wood 26

Westminster 2 Bayswater, Marylebone and Fitzrovia 36

Westminster 3 Mayfair and Soho 55

Westminster 4 Belgravia, St James's, Pimlico and Westminster 71

The Inner London Boroughs 96

Camden 1 Kentish Town, Primrose Hill, South Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Hampstead and South Highgate 98

Camden 2 Camden Town, Somers Town, St Pancras, Bloomsbury and Holborn 118

Greenwich 135

Hackney 139

Hammersmith & Fulham 149

Islington 156

Kensington & Chelsea 1 Kensington, Notting Hill and North Kensington 164

Kensington & Chelsea 2 South Kensington, Brompton, Chelsea and Earl's Court 180

Lambeth 195

Lewisham 200

Southwark 205

Tower Hamlets 216

Wandsworth 223

The Outer London Boroughs 228

Barking & Dagenham 230

Barnet 231

Bexley 239

Brent 241

Bromley 242

Croydon 247

Ealing 252

Enfield 254

Haringey 258

Harrow 262

Havering 264

Hillingdon 265

Hounslow 266

Kingston upon Thames 269

Merton 271

Newham 275

Redbridge 277

Richmond upon Thames 279

Sutton 286

Waltham Forest 288

Index 293

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