Abandoned London

ISBN: 1838860207

Author: Wignall, Katie

Condition: New

With 150 outstanding color photographs, Abandoned London presents a poignant pictorial exploration of the English capital-from forgotten railways lines and underpasses to lost industrial places, movie theaters, churches, and cemeteries.London is both a bright, modern city with soaring skyscrapers as well as a metropolis hundreds of years old-and, despite its gleaming surface, there is another side to the city, one of secrets, dilapidation, and mystery. Wander through disused stations on the Underground; immense, ornate Victorian sewers and waterworks; crumbling but beautiful Art Deco cinemas and empty swimming pools; bombed-out churches and eerie docklands; and ruined mansions and overgrown cemeteries, all haunting relics from a time gone by. Arranged thematically from transport and industry to residential and recreational, these entries cover both the modern city and the historical metropolis.Includes:- South Kentish Underground Station, closed in 1927- Camdens horse tunnels- Great Eastern Street, once a place of light industries, now finally being revived- Museum Street, Bloomsbury, with its shuttered shops- Crystal Palace Underpass, built to accommodate Victorian visitors on their way to the Crystal Palace exhibition- Sailmakers Factory, Limehouse- Strand Union Workhouse- St Marys Lodge, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington- Mansions, Bishops Avenue- The First Class Swimming Pool Hall - Ladywell Play Tower- Regal Cinema Highams Park- Archway Methodist Central Hall- Highgate West Cemetery- Ruins of a Victorian Folly, Sydenham Hill Woods