Eccentric London: The Bradt Guide to Britain's Crazy and Curious CapitalBenedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city. |
Contents
PART ONE ECCENTRIC LONDONERS AND THEIR | 1 |
Eccentric Shopping | 11 |
Murderous and Battlefield London | 19 |
Eccentric Pastimes | 39 |
Career Eccentrics | 51 |
Dead Eccentric London | 57 |
Immortalised London | 70 |
Londons Road to Eccentricity | 78 |
Monumentally Eccentric | 137 |
Eccentric Boozers Beasts and Bogs | 149 |
unlikely beasts 155 The strangest loos of London | 159 |
Earls Court 165 Making a complete exhibition of itself | 170 |
Fleet Street | 171 |
Soho | 187 |
Southwark | 196 |
Whitechapel | 208 |
Beneath the Eccentric City | 91 |
Eccentric Churches | 103 |
Home of Eccentrics | 118 |
Eccentric Buildings | 129 |
PART FOUR VILLAGE LONDON | 223 |
Greenwich | 237 |
Hammersmith | 252 |
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