London Then and Now - People and Places takes an amazing
cross-section of vintage photographs of London from the 1850s
through to the 1960s, and pairs them up with the same view as it
looks today. The great tourist destinations are all included:
Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Houses of Parliament,
Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden, the British Museum, St.
Pauls Cathedral and Hyde Park, along with classic London pubs,
famous theatres, the grand stations, and Carnaby Street and the
Kings Road.The book travels along the Thames through Hammersmith,
Barnes and Richmond out to Hampton Court, plus we get a fleeting
glimpse of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones posing on Park Lane
and walking out of court in Southcombe Street. There are Dickensian
street scenes, plus 'The Old Curiosity Shop' and coaching inns that
Dickens visited.Sites include: Albert Hall, Albert Memorial, Bank
of England, Grosvenor Square, Chelsea, Cleopatra's Needle,
Selfridges, Earls Court, Fleet Street, Soho, Haymarket, Kensington
High Street, Kew Gardens, Leicester Square, Oxford Street,
Paddington, Piccadilly Circus, Savoy Hotel, V&A, Natrual
History Museum, National Theatre, Festival Hall, Waterloo and much
more.
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