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Book Synopsis Notting Hill & Holland Park Past by : Barbara Denny
Download or read book Notting Hill & Holland Park Past written by Barbara Denny and published by Phillimore Company Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder in Notting Hill by : Mark Olden
Download or read book Murder in Notting Hill written by Mark Olden and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for the truth about a distant unsolved murder.
Book Synopsis Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate by : Tom Vague
Download or read book Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate written by Tom Vague and published by Bread and Circuses Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 43AD, and the building of the (no doubt very straight) Roman Great West Road to Silchester, to 2009, another bout of Carnival Riots and David Cameron getting his bike nicked outside Tescos on the Grove, (retrieved with the help of a friendly / non-class conscious Rasta), long time Portobello Road resident and local historian/psychogeographer Tom Vague takes us on a breathless romp through the peoples history of W10, taking in Roman Coffins on Ladbroke Grove and Civil War skirmishes in Holland Park, Russian occultists at 77 Elgin Crescent, Tory anarchist GK Chesterton and his Napoleon of Notting Hill, Thomas Hardy compering poetry nights at 84 Holland Park Avenue with Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, the pre WW1 Vorticist art HQ on Campden Hill Road ,WW2 bombs on Ladbroke Grove, Halliday Christie moving to 10 Rillington Place, teenage teddy boys rampaging at the Prince of Wales Cinema on Harrow Road, Max Mosely painting fascist Union Movement graffiti around Notting Hill in 1956, Peter Rachman renting properties to the ‘blacks and Irish’ before ruthlessly exploiting them all and ratcheting up local tensions, the infamous race riots of 1959, future Home Secretary Alan Johnsons’ original mod band the Area playing the Pavillion pub on North Pole Road in 1965, Pink Floyd at the Free School, All Saints Church, 1966, Performance, Powis Square 1969, Mick Farrens’ proto-punk Deviants at 56 Chesterton Road in 1970, Strummer, Jones and Simenon’s Clash on the Westway, in the Elgin, at the carnival riots....
Book Synopsis The Spaces of the Modern City by : Gyan Prakash
Download or read book The Spaces of the Modern City written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema.
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Book Synopsis The Great British Recording Studios by : Howard Massey
Download or read book The Great British Recording Studios written by Howard Massey and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). The Great British Recording Studios tells the story of the iconic British facilities where many of the most important recordings of all time were made. The first comprehensive account of British recording studios ever published, it was written with the cooperation of the British APRS (Association of Professional Recording Services, headed by Sir George Martin) to document the history of the major British studios of the 1960s and 1970s and to help preserve their legacy. The book surveys the era's most significant British studios (including Abbey Road, Olympic, and Trident), with complete descriptions of each studio's physical facilities and layout, along with listings of equipment and key personnel, as well as details about its best-known technical innovations and a discography of the major recordings done there. Seamlessly interweaving narrative text with behind-the-scenes anecdotes from dozens of internationally renowned record producers and a wealth of photographs (many never published before), this book brings to life the most famous British studios and the people who created magic there. Meticulously researched and organized, The Great British Recording Studios will inform and inspire students of the recording arts, music professionals, casual music fans, and anyone interested in the acoustically pristine facilities, groundbreaking techniques, and innovative artists and technicians that have shaped the course of modern recording.
Download or read book Streets of Sin written by Fiona Rule and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short walk away from London's West End lies Notting Hill—one of the capital's most exclusive residential districts and a celebrity hotspot. But this outwardly genteel enclave has its shocking secrets. Streets of Sin delves into Notting Hill's distinctly murky past, and relates the deplorable scandals that blighted the area from its development until the late 20th century. Bestselling London historian Fiona Rule sheds new light on notorious events that took place amid the leafy streets, including the horrifying murders at Rillington Place, the nefarious career of slum landlord Peter Rachman, the Profumo affair, and Britain's first race riots, and reveals what life was life in Notting Hill during its dark years when murder, extortion, and disorder were everyday occurrences.
Book Synopsis A Fragment of Life by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book A Fragment of Life written by Arthur Machen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fragment of Life is a fantasy novella by Arthur Machen. Machen was an author and mystic known for his prominent paranormal, fantasy, and horror fiction. Excerpt: "So, day after day, he lived in the grey phantasmal world, akin to death, that has, somehow, with most of us, made good its claim to be called life. To Darnell the true life would have seemed madness, and when, now and again, the shadows and vague images reflected from its splendour fell across his path, he was afraid, and took refuge in what he would have called the sane 'reality' of common and usual incidents and interests. His absurdity was, perhaps, the more evident, inasmuch as 'reality' for him was a matter of kitchen ranges, of saving a few shillings; but in truth the folly would have been greater if it had been concerned with racing stables, steam yachts, and the spending of many thousand pounds."
Book Synopsis The Very Bloody History Of London by : John Farman
Download or read book The Very Bloody History Of London written by John Farman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life... - Samuel Johnson Let John Farman, author of the mega-bestselling title The Very Bloody History of Britain, guide you round one of the world's most famous cities, London. Packed with multitudes of facts to entertain and amaze you, The Very Bloody History of London will take you on a tour you will never forget. Sometime's grisley, but always fascinating, this is history as it should be - loads of fun!
Book Synopsis London, a Social History by : Roy Porter
Download or read book London, a Social History written by Roy Porter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Book Synopsis The House of Souls by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The House of Souls written by Arthur Machen and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan and 'The White People' are classics of the horror genre, while The Inmost Light is more conventional, but still a damn good piece. A Fragment of Life, the only non-horror tale in the collection, has its tedious sections, but this proves to be intentional as a rendering of the ephemera of life drowning out the beauty. Machen's career, though rarely less than entertaining, eventually descended into lesser material going over the same ideas, but The House of Souls is one of his essential books along with The Hill of Dreams, Ornaments in Jade and The Three Impostors. Uniquely powerful literature from a veritable visionary. (Jim Smith)
Book Synopsis William Tinsley (1831-1902): Speculative Publisher by : Peter Newbolt
Download or read book William Tinsley (1831-1902): Speculative Publisher written by Peter Newbolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. An account of the activities of 19th-century publisher William Tinsley, particularly in relation to his authors and his chosen way of making a living. In considering the library-publishing system that dominated all aspects of fiction in the latter part of the 19th century, when down-payments rather than loyalties were the rewards of novelists, it may be surprising to find how wide were the variations in prices that publishers paid for such work. Differences appeared when individual publishers developed soft spots for particular authors, and in consequence they sometimes made fools of themselves. William Tinsley certainly did so, on several occasions, but was blessed, at least in later life, with the grace of never seriously regretting any of his mistakes. Examples of the nature of this good-hearted man are found in these pages. This account relies to an extent on Tinsley's two volumes of memoirs.
Book Synopsis Maps That Made History by : Lez Smart
Download or read book Maps That Made History written by Lez Smart and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people can resist the appeal of old maps and plans. Even in these days of disposable mapping - from satellite navigation to customized road directions at the click of a mouse - the historical map continues to present a unique perspective on our changing world. Here we explore 25 glorious examples. The emphasis is on the story behind the map: what it reveals about its creator and users, from the first explorers to the railway builders. This thought-provoking collection features maps that chart societies as well as land, sea, and skies; maps that have influenced and inspired; and perhaps most revealing of all, maps that misrepresent.
Book Synopsis The House of Souls by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The House of Souls written by Arthur Machen and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction It was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wearing costume in literature. The rich, figured English of the earlier part of the seventeenth century had always had a peculiar attraction for me. I accustomed myself to write in it, to think in it; I kept a diary in that manner, and half-unconsciously dressed up my every day thoughts and common experiences in the habit of the Cavalier or of the Caroline Divine. Thus, when in 1884 I got a commission to translate the Heptameron, I wrote quite naturally in the language of my favourite period, and, as some critics declare, made my English version somewhat more antique and stiff than the original. And so "The Anatomy of Tobacco" was an exercise in the antique of a different kind; and "The Chronicle of Clemendy" was a volume of tales that tried their hardest to be mediæval; and the translation of the "Moyen de Parvenir" was still a thing in the ancient mode. It seemed, in fine, to be settled that in literature I was to be a hanger on of the past ages; and I don't quite know how I managed to get away from them. I had finished translating "Casanova"—more modern, but not thoroughly up to date—and I had nothing particular on hand, and, somehow or other, it struck me that I might try a little writing for the papers. I began with a "turnover" as it was called, for the old vanished Globe, a harmless little article on old English proverbs; and I shall never forget my pride and delight when one day, being at Dover, with a fresh autumn wind blowing from the sea, I bought a chance copy of the paper and saw my essay on the front page.
Book Synopsis THE WEIRD TALES - Horror & Macabre Collection by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book THE WEIRD TALES - Horror & Macabre Collection written by Arthur Machen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Machen's 'The Weird Tales - Horror & Macabre Collection' is a chilling compilation of the author's finest works in the horror genre. Known for his unique blend of supernatural elements with psychological insight, Machen's writing transports readers to worlds where reality and imagination blur. His atmospheric prose and intricate storytelling style draw readers into dark and mysterious narratives that explore the depths of fear and suspense. This collection showcases Machen's talent for creating intricate and unsettling tales that continue to captivate readers to this day. The eerie settings and haunting characters in Machen's stories provide a glimpse into the darker aspects of human nature, making 'The Weird Tales' a must-read for fans of horror literature. Arthur Machen's own experiences with the supernatural and his fascination with the unknown inspired him to craft these haunting and unforgettable stories. Drawing on a rich literary tradition of Gothic and macabre storytelling, Machen's works reflect his belief in the power of the unknown to evoke fear and fascination in his readers. 'The Weird Tales - Horror & Macabre Collection' is a masterful compilation of horror fiction that will leave a lasting impact on those brave enough to delve into its pages.
Book Synopsis Portobello Voices by : Blanche Girouard
Download or read book Portobello Voices written by Blanche Girouard and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year... and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons and the gusset in boxer shorts and hear how experiences of loss, abandonment and estrangement lead to a life as a market trader. Read the book, rediscover the market and become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.
Book Synopsis Not For Tourists Guide to London 2015 by : Not For Tourists
Download or read book Not For Tourists Guide to London 2015 written by Not For Tourists and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’ve called London your home for decades or just arrived last night, there’s information in the Not For Tourists Guide to London that you need to know. From intimate neighborhood details to how to score tickets to the big football match, this guide will help you master this amazing city like an expert. Packed with over 100 maps and thousands of restaurants, shops, theaters, and under-the-radar spots, you won’t find a better guide to London. The book also features: - An invaluable street index - A foldout map of the London Underground and bus system - Profiles of over 100 neighborhoods - Listings for museums and landmarks - A guide to the best shopping You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve the mysteries of London: NFT has all the answers!