Crammed into Westminster and Pimlico are an abbey, a cathedral, a parliament, palaces, numerous government offices, up-market shops, men's clubs, beautiful parks, statues galore, luxurious and social housing, theatres, the most famous clock in the world and one of the best schools in the country. A hundred and fifty years ago the list would have included breweries and brothels, for here, in the capital of the richest nation in the world, an underclass of starving, homeless, wretched people somehow existed in shouting distance of those that governed them.
There are many surprises in this alphabetical guide to the history of this part of London, liberally illustrated with old and new pictures. The author, a Blue Badge Guide, ranges from War Rooms to judo, from gambling to Chelsea buns, from Millbank Penitentiary to the Ritz in a comprehensive look at this microcosm of a nation.
245 x 185mm (softcover with 207 illustrations) 136 pages
Published 2005
