Subterranean London
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Discovering Subterranean London
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Author : Andrew Emmerson
language : en
Publisher: Shire Publications
Release Date : 2009-12-15
Discovering Subterranean London written by Andrew Emmerson and has been published by Shire Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-15 with History categories.
Beneath the streets and towering buildings of London, there is a realm of shadow and secrets. This little book is the first concise guide to the hidden world of underground London. Informative, authoritative and richly illustrated, this volume takes you on a subterranean tour of the many remarkable constructions that few even knew existed. Some of these installations deep below ground were once highly secret, such as the government bunkers, civilian refuges, protected broadcasting studios and emergency control centers for public utilities. Other facilities described perform more mundane functions, including the mothballed Mail Rail (the Post Office Railway), telephone and power cable subways, electricity substations and sewage outfall tunnels. Together, they form a city of tunnels and passages that wind through the gloom beneath the feet of London.
Subterranean London
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Author : Bradley L. Garrett
language : en
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Release Date : 2015
Subterranean London written by Bradley L. Garrett and has been published by Prestel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Tunnels categories.
Peel back the layers under a London street and you'll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of hand-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations, World War II evacuation shelters, secret government bunkers, and tunnel boring machines laying new sewer, communication and transport grids.
Subterranean Cities
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Author : David Lawrence Pike
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2005
Subterranean Cities written by David Lawrence Pike and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
New life underground -- Modern necropolis -- Charon's bark -- Urban apocalypse.
Underground London
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Author : Stephen Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-02
Underground London written by Stephen Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-02 with Travel categories.
What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that 'Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, and long lost rivers such as the Fleet and the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best.
Subterranean City
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Author : Antony Clayton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Subterranean City written by Antony Clayton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with London (England) categories.
This book gives an account of features below London: railways, old and abandoned tunnels, security bases, cables, utility supplies, pneumatic tubes, crypts and wells, disused stations, lost rivers and streams. Inckudes recent developments: Channel Tunnel Rail link to St Pancras, Thames Link, East London Line, Cross rail and projects for water and electricity supply.
The Subterranean Railway
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Subterranean Railway written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Since Victorian times, London's Underground has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and has played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. This wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision and determination of the Victorian pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system and the men who tunnelled to make the Tube. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to twentieth-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right in to the present with its sleek, driverless trains and the wrangles over the future of the system.
Subterranean City
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Author : Antony Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Phillimore
Release Date : 2000
Subterranean City written by Antony Clayton and has been published by Phillimore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Subterranean Cities
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Author : David L. Pike
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Subterranean Cities written by David L. Pike and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life.The metropolis had long been considered a moral underworld of iniquity and dissolution. As the complex drainage systems, underground railways, utility tunnels, and storage vaults of the modern cityscape superseded the countryside of caverns and mines as the principal location of actual subterranean spaces, ancient and modern converged in a mythic space that was nevertheless rooted in the everyday life of the contemporary city. Writers and artists from Felix Nadar and Charles Baudelaire to Charles Dickens and Alice Meynell, Gustave Doré and Victor Hugo, George Gissing and Emile Zola, and Jules Verne and H. G. Wells integrated images of the urban underworld into their portrayals of the anatomy of modern society. Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the subterranean obsessions and anxieties within nineteenth-century urban culture. Chapters on the subways, sewers, and cemeteries of Paris and London provide a detailed analysis of these competing centers of urban modernity. A concluding chapter considers the enduring influence of these spaces on urban culture at the turn of the twenty-first century.
London Under London
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Author : Richard Trench
language : en
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
Release Date : 1993
London Under London written by Richard Trench and has been published by John Murray Pubs Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Travel categories.
One of the most popular books on London (it has reprinted six times since it was first published in 1984) London under London has now been updated to take into account the latest subterranean developments. A new section covers: the pioneering deep level water main 80 kilometres in length, much longer even than the Channel Tunnel; new power tunnels and the enormous substation beneath Leicester Square; new underground railways; glass fibre communication; and much more. Clearly, metropolitan man is burrowing as actively as ever.;The London we know and see is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the familiar surface lies an unknown city, a Hades of buried and forgotten rivers, sunken sewers, underground railways, pipes and passages, tubes and tunnels, crypts and cellars. These lifelines of the metropolis twist and turn hidden beneath the pavements of the city - fifteen hundred miles of Neo-Gothic sewers, a hundred miles of Neolithic rivers, eighty-two miles of tube tunnels, twelve miles of government tunnels and hundreds of thousands of miles of cables and pipes. Layer upon layer, they run their urgent errands, carrying people, delivering water, removing sewage, passing currents, sending messages, conveying parcels.;Drawing extensively from the literature and visual archives of the underworld, London under London traces the history of the tunnellers and borers who have pierced the ground beneath the city for close on two thousand years. The authors trace the routes taken by man and nature, and enable us to follow them from the comfort of our armchairs. They can also tell us, gazetteer-style, exactly where we can get below and see the strange world which they depict, whom to ask for permission, and which of the public service authorities organizes trips underground.
London S Labyrinth
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Author : Fiona Rule
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2019-01-07
London S Labyrinth written by Fiona Rule and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-07 with Transportation categories.
Do you know what's under your feet? The London Underground was the very first underground railway – but it wasn't the first time Londoners had ventured below ground, nor would it be the last. People seem to be drawn to subterranean London: it hides unsightly (yet magnificent) sewers, protects its people from war, and hosts its politicians in times of crisis. But the underground can also be an underworld, and celebrated London historian Fiona Rule has tracked down the darker stories too – from the gangs that roamed below looking for easy prey, to an attempted murder–suicide on the platform of Charing Cross. Underneath London is another world; one with shadows of war, crime and triumph. London's Labyrinth is a book that no London aficionado should be without.
