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| Author | : Bradley L. Garrett |
| Publisher | : Prestel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Tunnels |
| ISBN | : 9783791381886 |
Peel back the layers under a London street and you'll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of hand-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations, World War II evacuation shelters, secret government bunkers, and tunnel boring machines laying new sewer, communication and transport grids.
| Author | : Antony Clayton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
| ISBN | : 9781905286324 |
This book gives an account of features below London: railways, old and abandoned tunnels, security bases, cables, utility supplies, pneumatic tubes, crypts and wells, disused stations, lost rivers and streams. Inckudes recent developments: Channel Tunnel Rail link to St Pancras, Thames Link, East London Line, Cross rail and projects for water and electricity supply.
| 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.
| Author | : Christian Wolmar |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2012-11-01 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1848872534 |
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the 19th-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to 20th-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains, and the wrangles over the future of the system. This book reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory, and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.
| Author | : David Lawrence Pike |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801472565 |
New life underground -- Modern necropolis -- Charon's bark -- Urban apocalypse.
| Author | : Joe R. Lansdale |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
"Signed limited edition"--Front jacket flap.
| Author | : Paul Talling |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2020-04-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1409023850 |
Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of each river and over 100 colour photographs, it's essential browsing for any Londoner and the perfect gift for anyone who loves exploring the past... 'An amazing book' -- BBC Radio London 'Talling's highly visual, fact-packed, waffle-free account is the freshest take we've yet seen. A must-buy for anyone who enjoys the "hidden" side of London -- Londonist 'A fascinating and stylish guide to exploring the capital's forgotten brooks, waterways, canals and ditches ... it's a terrific book' - Walk 'Pocket-sized, beautifully designed, illustrated and informative - in short a joy to read, handle and use' -- ***** Reader review 'Delightful, informative and beautifully produced' -- ***** Reader review 'A small gem. A really great book. I can't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Fascinating from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************ From the sources of the Fleet in Hampstead's ponds to the mouth of the Effra in Vauxhall, via the meander of the Westbourne through 'Knight's Bridge' and the Tyburn's curve along Marylebone Lane, London's Lost Rivers unearths the hidden waterways that flow beneath the streets of the capital. Paul Talling investigates how these rivers shaped the city - forming borough boundaries and transport networks, fashionable spas and stagnant slums - and how they all eventually gave way to railways, roads and sewers. Armed with his camera, he traces their routes and reveals their often overlooked remains: riverside pubs on the Old Kent Road, healing wells in King's Cross, 'stink pipes' in Hammersmith and gurgling gutters on streets across the city. Packed with maps and over 100 colour photographs, London's Lost Rivers uncovers the watery history of the city's most famous sights, bringing to life the very different London that lies beneath our feet.
| Author | : G. Hartwig |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2022-06-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Subterranean World describes the wonders of this hidden world related to humans. The writer gives a sketch of the phenomena resulting from the action of subterranean forces, with accounts of the wonders of the sea, the tropics, and the frozen areas. This geographical work aims to deliver to the reader a fair idea of the past and present conditions of the world.
| Author | : Stephen Smith |
| Publisher | : Abacus |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2010-12-02 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0748123946 |
What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that 'Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, and long lost rivers such as the Fleet and the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best.
| Author | : Bradley Garrett |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1781685576 |
It is assumed that every inch of the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places around us—the cities we live in—that need to be rediscovered. What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure. Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the boundaries of conventional life. He calls it ‘place hacking’: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban space to make them realms of opportunity. Explore Everything is an account of the author’s escapades with the London Consolidation Crew, an urban exploration collective. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first century metropolis.
