The author, a distinguished London historian, has now researched the development and, in particular, the residents of this fascinating part of the metropolis. Brompton, a village renowned for its market gardens, was transformed after the Great Exhibition of 1851 as the site of some of the nation's most illustrious museums, institutions and shops-such as the famous Harrod's. Speculators in the Earl's Court area exploited the coming of the Metropolitan Railway by building terraces of houses for the affluent; mostly split into cheap flats after the last war.
245 x 185mm (hardback with 173 illustrations) 144 pages
Published 2000
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