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The Hidden Lives of London Streets - A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond (Paperback)
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The Hidden Lives of London Streets - A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond (Paperback)
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Loot Price R115
Discovery Miles 1 150
You Save R167 (59%)
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London's streets have always worn a variety of influences,
reflecting the diverse crowds who live and work on them. Take a
walk down any number of historic streets and an abundance of tales
exist in the bricks and mortar, waiting to be told. The Hidden
Lives of London's Streets takes the reader on a journey through
Soho, Piccadilly, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Kensington,
Fitzrovia and Clerkenwell. A street map is provided for each area,
marking out the streets and buildings in which the various
activities - some forgotten, others well-remembered - took place.
Stories include those of courtesans such as the notorious Lola
Montez and Theresa de Cornelys, who gave lavish balls at their home
in Soho Square which were little more than orgies, during which a
man playing the violin while on roller skates crashed through her
plate glass window; Casanova and his quarrel with Marianne
Charpillon after he taught a parrot to say she was a 'whore'; clubs
- great (the Gargoyle), the artistic (Muriel Belcher's Colony), and
the small (Royston Smith's club for dwarves); the police;
robberies; murder and executions; the nightclubs; cinemas and
theatres; the villains and prostitution. Beyond mere gangs and
criminality, the book will trace the social changes that have
gradually unfolded on any given street. For example the
metamorphosis of Old Compton Street as home to race gangs in the
1920s, to becoming an essentially Italian street, to being part of
the gay community.
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