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London Then and Now: Revised Second Edition by Vaughan Grylls

Matching archive photos with their modern viewpoint, London Then and Now gives a fascinating insight into the history of Europe’s financial capital.

London has changed rapidly in the last 150 years. The Luftwaffe helped modify many parts of central London and the East End in the 1940s, but some of the most dramatic changes have come in the last 20 years.

Stretching from Hampton Court and Kew Gardens in West London, the book takes a winding route along the river Thames to the soaring spires of Canary Wharf in Dockland and the stately Royal Naval College at Greenwich.

Sites include:

Hampton Court Palace, Kew Gardens, Hammersmith Bridge (Boat Race), Kings Road Chelsea, Battersea Power Station, Lambeth Palace, The Tate, Palace of Westminster, Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben), Whitehall, Horseguards Parade, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Harrods, Albert Memorial, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, Festival Hall, Savoy Hotel, Oxo Tower, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Royal Opera House, Soho, Tate Modern, Bank of England, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tower of London, HMS Belfast, Samuel Pepys’ Church, London Bridge/Shard, Docklands, Greenwich Observatory (GMT) and the Royal Naval College

London Then and Now®: Revised Second Edition
London Then and Now®: Revised Second Edition
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London Then and Now®: People and Places
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London Then and Now: People and Places by Frank Hopkinson

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.

London Then and Now®: Revised Second Edition
London Then and Now®: Revised Second Edition
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London Then and Now®: People and Places
London Then and Now®: People and Places
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Then & Now - London [DVD]
Then & Now - London [DVD]
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More to read by Frank Hopkinson

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