Product Description

This is the first book of its kind for over a century. It is a compilation of thoroughly researched true stories of Londoners through the ages, well known and little known alike - their lives, loves, pastimes and crimes. Their stories weave a tapestry of London through the ages. A hundred characters are included, for example the Dulwich hermit, murdered in the eighteenth century, Thomas Crapper, Victorian plumber extraordinaire, Cruickshank, the political cartoonist, Boris Karloff, Conan Doyle, Mrs Beeton, Mary Nesbitt, the Norwood courtesan, Adam Worth, millionaire burglar, Joanna Southcott, an eighteenth-century prophetess, and Henry Cavendish, the man who weighed the world. Peter de Loriol's conversational text is accompanied by a wide range of illustrations, from woodcuts to engravings to photographs, old and new.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #783841 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Peter De Loriol is a writer and historian. After a career in the army, in hotel and property management and in the computer industry he is now well established as a London-based author. Peter writes extensively for six London magazines (published by Highbury Local Publishing PLC) and also contributes to a number of French genealogical and historian titles.

Customer Reviews

London and it's unusual
This book is more about the lessor known characters of London,so do not expect to read about Dickens and Pepys etc.Some of the people are barely interesting and others the opposite,so the book give you an uneven ride.These lessor knowns deserve to be written about.Overal l enjoyed it,as l have already read about the well knowns,so this suppilemented that knowledge.One of the characters was so incredibly shy,that he had a seperate staircase built in his house,so that he did not have to bump into his own servants on the stairs and say hello,as he couldn't face eye contact.