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Changes made by both Apple and Amazon have made opening eBooks with an iPad more complex than previously. I have produced a step-by-step guide. Lockdown has given me the opportunity to look, yet again, for definitive answers to the questions 'when did London first get street nameplates and house numbers?' I am now closer to the answers. |
December 2018 Boyle's View of London and its Environs by Patrick Boyle 1799 |
September 2018 Wyld's New Plan of London 1851 An electronic version of James Wyld's famous street map produced for the Great Exhibition, with a newly created index. Available as a .zip file for instant download. Use on any computer with a browser, no other viewing software is required. |
October 2016 London Streets lost to the Blitz by Bruce Hunt 2016 Three years in the making, with a cast of thousands. A unique list of every inhabited place in the London Postal Area in 1939 and how to find any that are no longer there. Including estates, roads and unnamed groups of prefabs that do not appear on most maps of the time, together with what replaced them and many Blitz-related facts. |
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Boyle's View of London and its Environs by Patrick Boyle 1799 Bruce's Lists of London Street Name Changes by Bruce Hunt 2013 Bygone London Life by G. L. Apperson 1903 Cycle Rides Round London by Charles G. Harper 1902 Highways and Byways in London by Mrs E. T. Cook 1902 The History of London by Sir Walter Besant 1909 Literary London by Elsie M. Lang 1906 Lockie's Topography of London by John Lockie 1810 London and its Government by Percy A. Harris 1913 London on Thames in Bygone Days by G. H. Birch 1903 London River by H. M. Tomlinson 1921 London Street Names by F. H. Habben 1896 London Streets lost to the Blitz by Bruce Hunt 2016 London: the Story of the City by Ernest Rhys 1909 The Lure of Old London by Sophie Cole 1921 Medieval London by William Benham & Charles Welch 1901 Old London Street Cries by Andrew W. Tuer 1885 Old Serjeants' Inn - privately published in 1912 Remarks on London by William Stow 1722 The Romance of London by John Timbs 1865 The Seven Curses of London by James Greenwood 1869 Survey of London by John Stow 1598 The Taverns of London by H. E. Popham 1927 Thames and Tweed by George Rooper 1876 Thames Valley Villages - Both Volumes by Charles G. Harper 1910 A Topographical Dictionary of London by James Elmes 1831 The Tower of London by Arthur Poyser & John Fulleylove 1908 The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt 1848 Unknown London by Walter George Bell 1919 Unnoticed London by E. Montizambert 1922 The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat 1847 The Nicest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil 1909 Round About a Brighton Coach Office by Maude Egerton King 1896 The Kitchen Garden and the Cook by Cecelia Maria Pearse 1913 Good Things Made Said and Done, by Goodall, Backhouse & Co. 1886
Half-Hours at the Sea-Side by J. E. Taylor 1880 Wood and Garden by Gertrude Jekyll 1899 The Every-Day Book of Natural History by James Cundall 1918 The Brighton Road by Charles G. Harper 1922 Cycle Rides Round London by Charles G. Harper 1902 English Architecture by Thomas Dinham Atkinson 1904 The English Character by Spencer Leigh Hughes 1912 The Every-Day Book of Natural History by James Cundall 1918 The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. H. Thompson 1911 Half-Hours at the Sea-Side by J. E. Taylor 1880 Hunting in the Golden Days by Hubert Garle 1896 Letters from a Country House by Thomas Anderton 1891 London's Forest, by Percival J. S. Perceval 1909 Old English Towns - both volumes 1909 & 1912 Round About a Brighton Coach Office by Maude Egerton King 1896 Rural Rides by William Cobbett 1830 Thames Valley Villages - Both Volumes by Charles G. Harper 1910 The Art of Driving a Motorcycle by The Staff of 'Motor Cycle' 1916 The Book of the Ford by R. T. Nicholson 1917 Cycle Rides Round London by Charles G. Harper 1902 French Railways by Lord Monkswell 1911 Practical Flying by W. G. McMinnies, R.N. 1918 Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson 1904 Hunting in the Golden Days by Hubert Garle 1896 London Lavender by E. V. Lucas 1912 Naval Occasions by 'Bartimeus' 1915 The Old Chelsea Bun-Shop by Anne Manning 1899 The Relentless City by E. F. Benson 1903 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle edited by J. A. Giles 1914 The Cities of Umbria by Edward Hutton 1904 English Architecture by Thomas Dinham Atkinson 1904 French Railways by Lord Monkswell 1911 A Hind in Richmond Park by W. H. Hudson 1922 An Idler in Old France by Tighe Hopkins 1899 Medieval Byways by L. F. Salzmann 1913 Off The Rocks by Wilfred T. Grenfell 1906 Thames and Tweed by George Rooper 1876 Tobacco Talk and Smoker's Gossip published by Redway 1886 Wisdom, Wit and Allegory from The Spectator 1711/12 Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett 1830 The English Character by Spencer Leigh Hughes 1912 Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke 1899 Hunting in the Golden Days by Hubert Garle 1896 The Lighter Side of Irish Life by George A. Birmingham 1911 The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay 1914 London Lavender by E. V. Lucas 1912 Medieval Byways by L. F. Salzmann 1913 Off The Rocks by Wilfred T. Grenfell 1906 The Relentless City by E. F. Benson 1903 Tobacco Talk and Smoker's Gossip published by Redway 1886 Hunting in the Golden Days by Hubert Garle 1896 Thames and Tweed by George Rooper 1876 Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke 1899 Sporting Notions by Martin Cobbett 1908 |
March 2014 The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay 1914 |
February 2014 Remarks on London by William Stow 1722 |
January 2014 London Street Names by F. H. Habben 1896 |
December 2013 A Topographical Dictionary of London by James Elmes 1831 |
October 2013 A second, complete edition of Bruce's Lists, with more detail and all the 23,000 official changes. The only way to search for streets and places in London that no longer have the same name. |
September 2013 An improved version of Lockie's Topography of London, with expanded abbreviations and uniform capitalisation. |
August 2013 London and its Government by Percy A. Harris 1913 |
July 2013 Thames Valley Villages - Both Volumes by Charles G. Harper 1910 |
June 2013 French Railways by Lord Monkswell 1911 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle edited by J. A. Giles 1914 |
May 2013 Cycle Rides Round London by Charles G. Harper 1902 Bygone London Life by G. L. Apperson 1903 |
April 2013 Medieval London by William Benham & Charles Welch 1901 The Brighton Road by Charles G. Harper 1922 |
March 2013 The Romance of London by John Timbs 1865 London on Thames in Bygone Days by G. H. Birch 1903 |
February 2013 Bruce's Lists of London Street Name Changes by Bruce Hunt 2013 The History of London by Sir Walter Besant 1909 Old London Street Cries by Andrew W. Tuer 1885 |
January 2013 The Cities of Umbria by Edward Hutton 1904 The Lure of Old London by Sophie Cole 1921 Off The Rocks by Wilfred T. Grenfell 1906 Unnoticed London by E. Montizambert 1922 |
December 2012 Letters from a Country House by Thomas Anderton 1891 The Lighter Side of Irish Life by George A. Birmingham 1911 |
November 2012 English Architecture by Thomas Dinham Atkinson 1904 Wisdom, Wit and Allegory from The Spectator 1711/12 |
October 2012 Medieval Byways by L. F. Salzmann 1913 |
September 2012 Half-Hours at the Sea-Side by J. E Taylor 1880 |
August 2012 The English Character by Spencer Leigh Hughes 1912 |
July 2012 Naval Occasions by 'Bartimeus' 1915 |
June 2012 By popular request, the illustrations or pictures from suitable eBooks are now separately available for downloading as high resolution scans for printing or viewing. You can buy them from each book's own page, or all of them are listed in the new print shop. Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke 1899 |
May 2012 Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett 1830 The Every-Day Book of Natural History by James Cundall 1918 |
April 2012 Old Serjeants' Inn - privately printed in 1912 The Kitchen Garden and the Cook by Cecilia Maria Pearse 1913 |
March 2012 The Art of Driving a Motorcycle by The Staff of 'Motor Cycling' 1916 Wood and Garden by Gertrude Jekyll 1899 |
February 2012 Hunting in the Golden Days by Hubert Garle 1896 The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. H. Thompson 1911 |
January 2012 Survey of London by John Stow 1598 London: the Story of the City by Ernest Rhys 1909 Round About a Brighton Coach Office by Maude Egerton King 1896 Sporting Notions by Martin Cobbett 1908 |
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