London Then and Now® E-Book

Frank Hopkinson

• Herausgeber: Batsford
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

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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THEN AND NOW ® People and Places

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CONTENTS

Trafalgar Square

Whitehall

Parliament Square

Westminster Bridge

Westminster Pier

Houses of Parliament

Westminster Abbey

Royal Aquarium

Buckingham Palace

Hyde Park Corner

Park Lane

Marble Arch

Oxford Street

Berkeley Square

Grosvenor Square

Shepherd Market

Regent Street

Carnaby Street

Air Street

Piccadilly

Haymarket

Leicester Square

Soho

Charing Cross Road

Covent Garden

Portsmouth Street

Holborn

Fleet Street

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Smithfield Market

Barbican

Bank of England

London Bridge

Billingsgate

Hart Street

Tower Bridge

Borough High Street

Cannon Street Station

Blackfriars Bridge

Blackfriars Station

Waterloo Bridge

National Theatre

National Film Theatre

Waterloo Station

Old Vic Theatre

Brixton

Balham

Imperial War Museum

Vauxhall

Lambeth Palace

St. Thomas’s Hospital

Southbank

Somerset House

St. Mary-le-Strand 222Royal Courts of Justice

The Strand

Victoria Embankment 232 Savoy Hotel

Charing Cross Station

St. Martin’s Place

Woolwich

Greenwich

Isle of Dogs

Royal Docks

Stratford

Stepney

Bethnal Green

Hoxton

Aldgate

Highgate

Hampstead

Alexandra Palace 282Lord’s Cricket Ground

Madame Tussaud’s

Paddington Station

St. Pancras Station

King’s Cross Station

University College

Post Office Tower

Bloomsbury

Kensington museums

Knightsbridge

Albert Hall

Hyde Park

Portobello Road

Kensington

Olympia

Earls Court

Victoria

King’s Road

Chelsea

Putney

Fulham

Hammersmith

Barnes

Kew Gardens

Richmond-upon-Thames

Kingston-upon-Thames

Hampton Court

Hampton

Introduction

Then and Now books are a fairly straightforward concept: take an interesting vintage photo, go back to the same spot and photograph what is on the site today.

The photographers of the nineteenth century were never that keen on having many people in their photographs. Plate cameras with long exposures would create ghostly images of pedestrians who attempted any kind of movement. Thus many of the early images of London’s buildings have very few people in them, with a few spectres lurking at the fringes.