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  • Author: Peter Ashley
  • Publisher: English Heritage
  • Catalogue: 148421
  • Size: 20x24cm
Peter Ashley, writer and photographer, returns with a second volume uncovering London’s past and revealing the old ways that make the city the most exciting capital anywhere. The occupations he finds have, for the most part, disappeared, but clues to their one-time existence remain. On this tour around the conurbation’s curious corners we find the largest stone Hindu Mandir in the western hemisphere, a stuffed cat complete with top hat and cigar, stretchers from the Blitz recycled as council flat railings and a wild west icon offering the peace pipe to pedestrians of St James.

In all it’s a glorious celebration of London’s variety and of it’s past and a must for those living in London as much as it is for those visiting.