Book Description
This book offers an engaging catalogue of local place names and their history and covers the origin of pub names and local shops.
Author : John D. Beasley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445629844
This book offers an engaging catalogue of local place names and their history and covers the origin of pub names and local shops.
Author : John D. Beasley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445630176
The fascinating history of Peckham & Nunhead illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Author : John D. Beasley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445628007
The fascinating, lavishly illustrated history of East Dulwich.
Author : Sandi Toksvig
Publisher : Virago
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0349006393
Pre-order Sandi Toksvig's new novel FRIENDS OF DOROTHY now - coming in September 2024 The long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved characters - presenter of QI, former host of The Great British Bake Off 'Wise and kind... part celebration, part confession... it will make you miss your stop' Observer 'A fun-filled, fact-packed, memorable ride' Sunday Times 'Life-affirming and addictive' Sunday Express Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus. From a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle to anecdotes about boarding school, this is the long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved characters. Presenter of QI, former host of The Great British Bake Off, writer, broadcaster, activist and comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years: this is an autobiography with a difference - as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it. A funny and moving trip through memories, musings and the many delights on the number 12 route, Between the Stops is also an inspiration to us all to get off our phones, look up and talk to each other because as Sandi says: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'.
Author : John David Beasley
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nunhead (London, England)
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : English Place-Name Society
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 191338005X
An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living. “Is there life in Peckham?” asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London—social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham’s streets and presents the portrait of a community experiencing the stresses of modern living. Old and new residents rub against each other as they try to adjust to the challenges created by urban regeneration and the more subtle process of gentrification. Artists have lived and worked in Peckham for more than a century, and now Caribbean and West African communities are adding their own flavors in terms of music, drama, poetry, and film. Focused on a few square miles, Passport to Peckham raises issues of urban policy, planning, culture, and creativity that have a far wider application. As London and other major cities recover from the COVID crisis, are there lessons in urban living to be learned from the pleasures and pains of Peckham? The answer from one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics is an emphatic yes.
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Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1893
Category : London (England)
ISBN :