Kirjahaku

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

Best known nowadays for the annual University boat race, Putney is a riverside town with a venerable heritage. Its existence arises from its position on a major route to the South West, and by the time of the Domesday survey a ferry was providing a yearly income of twenty shillings to the lord of the manor. Prosperous sixteenth-century merchants from London built their countryside houses here and urban inroads were made into what had been a rural environment. The railway arrived before the camera and written records are all the evidence there is of a local economy based on agriculture. But photography is able to show us how rapid development swallowed up the market gardens in the years between 1860 and 1890 and eventually the large houses in the High Street. It also records in a way that history cannot the lives and times of our forebears, offering us a remarkable and immediate insight into the diverse aspects of everyday reality for ordinary people. The photographs in this fascinating selection bring some of the last one hundred years of Putney and Roehampton history to life. Informative captions provide useful background on the views and a wealth of local knowledge that will intrigue all those who wich to know more about this town on the Thames.

Chelsea: Images of England This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

This collection of over 200 photographs depicts how Fulham has developed from an area renowned for its rich and fertile soil, producing fruit and vegetables for the London markets, into the densely populated and vibrant centre it is known as today. Once populated by market gardens and orchards this area became home to many, where riverside mansions gave way to new housing projects and the outline of present-day Fulham began to take shape.Through the images of street scenes, buildings and commercial activities this book gives a brief glimpse of what life would have been like for the inhabitants of Fulham during the last three centuries. Fulham will delight all those who want to know more about this fascinating area of south west London and provides the reader with an insight into times gone by. Other titles by the same author include: Balham and Tooting, Chelsea, Wandsworth and Battersea and Clapham.

A history of the cinemas and theatres of Wandsworth & Battersea.

A history of Balham & Tooting