London

London
Author: Great Britain. Government Office for London
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1995
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780117019263

A great deal of information is collected about London. The aim of this book is to bring much of that information together in one accessible source, to provide a comprehensive picture of London. It brings together information which shows what London is like, what goes on in it and gives an insight into the people who live and work there. Data are provided on a wide selection of subjects such as economic activity in areas such as financial services, business and industry, tourism and investment; population and the workforce, as well as transport, travel, commuting patterns, and where people work; income and spending; education and training; housing and land use; leisure facilities and social aspects; living standards; health; and environmental quality. The book is aimed at both the general reader as well as the specialist, whether as Londoner, or visitor, local authority business, investor or the merely curious. It also gives advice on where to find additional sources of information for those who want to know even more.

London Transport

London Transport
Author: James Fowler
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789739535

This book is a timely assessment of a unique hybrid public body with a system of governance that once made London transport domestically popular and internationally admired: the London Passenger Transport Board.

Hidden London

Hidden London
Author: David Bownes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300245793

Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.

The Railwaymen

The Railwaymen
Author: Philip S. Bagwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2022-12-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000818217

Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services and reveals the change which took place in the union to which most of them belonged: the National Union of Railwaymen (now part of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Transport Workers: RMT). The union’s reaction to the Beeching closures of the 1960s and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971, its policies on the closed shop, inter-union rivalries, representation in Parliament and the constitution of the Labour Party are treated authoritatively by the author who had access to all the union’s records.

Amazing & Extraordinary London Underground Facts

Amazing & Extraordinary London Underground Facts
Author: Stephen Halliday
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1446356655

This is a fascinating and useful reference to the history of the London Underground that reveals new insights into the history of the iconic transport system - the perfect gift for commuters, tourists and railway enthusiasts alike. For anyone who has lived, worked, visited or even passed through London, the tube is one of the iconic and defining characteristics of the city. Amazing & Extraordinary London Underground Facts takes you from the famous roundel symbol and standing on the right of the escalators, to the instantly recognizable and hugely influential route map. This title helps to discover the tales of the building of the first lines in the mid-nineteenth century and the steam trains that ran along them, the ever expanding network of routes, the abandoned ghost stations, the notorious incidents and colorful characters that have all played a part in the amazing and extraordinary history of the London Underground.

Sources of Non-official UK Statistics

Sources of Non-official UK Statistics
Author: D. Mort
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000160750

This title was first published in 2002: This volume gives details of nearly 1000 publications and services (including electronic publications) produced by trade associations, professional bodies, banks, consultants, employers' federations, forecasting organizations and others, together with statistics appearing in trade journals and periodicals. Titles and services are listed alphabetically by publisher and each entry contains information, where available, on subject, content and source of statistics, as well as frequency and cost, and address, telephone and fax details for further information. This updated edition also includes details of internet sites and information on whether statistics are available on those sites.

Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground
Author: Judith Chernaik
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141389532

This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.