Underground London - A Stroll Through the Gilded Underbelly

Author: Smith
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Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The author's task is to make the "past" linger behind the "today" like a basso continuo. And the so-called "past" is actually a consciousness, to understand: it is all the dead of London that gave birth to this eternal favorite. — Ford Madox Ford, The Soul of London London has inspired many writers, but the book before you is a bit special. It explores the life and history of the city from underground. The author meets workers digging tunnels in an underground church crypt and then travels with them through many places in the city: ancient riverbeds beneath famous streets, tunnels beneath Hampton Court used by the king's mistress as secret passages, Victorian sewers, government secret underground shelters, cellars filled with all kinds of strange treasures, abandoned underground stations, unused postal underground transport tracks, and secret rooms beneath Westminster Palace where famous conspiracies were plotted. The author's task is to make the "past" linger behind the "today" like a basso continuo. And the so-called "past" is actually a consciousness, to understand: it is all the dead of London that gave birth to this eternal favorite. — Ford Madox Ford, The Soul of London London has inspired many writers, but the book before you is a bit special. It explores the life and history of the city from underground. The author meets workers digging tunnels in an underground church crypt and then travels with them through many places in the city: ancient riverbeds beneath famous streets, tunnels beneath Hampton Court used by the king's mistress as secret passages, Victorian sewers, government secret underground shelters, cellars filled with all kinds of strange treasures, abandoned underground stations, unused postal underground transport tracks, and secret rooms beneath Westminster Palace where famous conspiracies were plotted.