I will send you a black and white pdf with a background image onto which you can stick the two cards. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Imagine today someone suggesting that the giant equestrian statue of The Duke of Wellington atop his arch should be removed. An eye-opening look at how the ever changing London is something that is a characteristic of the city itself.

They are taken from the LCC collection, now held by English Heritage and are strikingly sharp and detailed. Subjects: Architecture London History; Historic buildings England London; Lost architecture England London; Architecture England London History; Historic buildings England London; Lost architecture England London; Dwellings England London; Lost architecture; Historic buildings Conservation and restoration; London; Middlesex; Surrey. View the Freedom Pass privacy statement to find out what information we collect, why we collect it, and how long we keep your information for. Many of the photos in Lost London depict buildings on the verge of demolition, their interiors stripped and awaiting their fate. to preserve the best of historic buildings, help the general public understand why they should be kept, and increase the understanding of the significance of these buildings for our history.They’ve been in the news quite a lot lately; my sister sent me these of Oxford, which I absolutely love, and just today I spotted this fascinating set of photos comparing the sites of the D-Day landings back in 1944 with how they are today. Prior to our founding, many of our staff worked in the thrift industry where we saw millions of books being sent to landfills each year. To paraphrase from the Foreword: This kind of photography emphasizes the task of English Heritage (and similar organizations in other countries! Philip Davies has curated the images in the book, an architectural historian who - from 2005 to 2011 was the Planning and Development Director for London and South-East England at English Heritage. Lost in London (also known as Lost in London LIVE) is a 2017 American independent biographical comedy-drama film written, starring, and directed by Woody Harrelson in his directorial debut.

Described as a publishing phenomenon, Lost London transports the reader back in time with amazing and evocative photographs. These were the days before people were concerned about conservation, and a great many remarkable buildings surviving from as far back as before the Great Fire have been lost. Yet even today a journey on the Docklands Light Railway is to travel through areas of obvious wealth interspersed by areas of continuing poverty. Within the course of one night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in jail.For me, I first visited my favorite city in the 1980s, when it looked, by comparison to Paris and other cities, very tired and unsure of itself. Please note that failure to inform us of a change of address will result in your pass being cancelled if you do not respond to a letter that is sent to your old address. Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then? The best book in my library is definitely this book of old photos of London, so I am reproducing this review here by way of recommending it. Please note that before sending in your faulty pass to be tested, it is advisable to keep your current pass to present for visual inspection enabling you to continue travelling while you are waiting for your replacement pass to arrive.

But had we had Vic Keegan’s book with us (and next time we will) how much more would we have seen and imagined! If you love London (or once did), or wondered what Dickens was really thinking of when he was writing, you will absolutely not be disappointed. These images are marvellously captured by the photographers of that time, undoubtedly using large unweildy but very high-quality 'plate-cameras'.More than 500 spectacular unseen photographs of London, taken between 1875 and 1945, from the Archives of English Heritage. Constat amer des démolitions iniques de bâtiments qui auraient pu être sauvegardés pour nombre d'entre eux.

There’s the odd under-visited museum like the one at the end of Brunel the Elder’s Wondrous Tunnel (129), the first underwater tunnel, opened in 1843. Who knows what it'll look like down the line as a record of its own premiere—the live-streaming may well have been its oxygen. There is something infinitely humbling involved when you see places that were vital, inhabited, beautiful, ugly --- and now they're gone as if they never existed.

Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket, top edge dusty else clean and unmarked. Light offsetting on endpapers, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on nicks on edges and modest internal tape repair. The buildings in this book were all demolished in a time where they were rapidly redeveloping London and gave little to no thought for the history that they were erasing.