The book of the Hidden London website, and much more besides.

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Product Description

Over 1,350 entries (from Westminster to Woodridings – even the locals haven't heard of it) cover the breadth of this multifaceted capital city. Packed with historical detail, quirky facts and anecdotes, it gives a fascinating panorama of London. Ideal for browsing, its portable format also makes it the perfect travelling companion.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #186654 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 573 pages

About the Author
Russ Willey is a 50-year-old Londoner, whose family's London roots date back over 200 years. Following a BA in Social Sciences from York University, he pursued a career in marketing, including much copywriting and some broadcasting. A London resident for the last twenty years, the author has been compiling the London Gazetteer intermittently for the last ten of these.

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Customer Reviews

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST LONDON GAZETTEER THERE IS
A brilliant piece of work. Wide-ranging, witty and endlessly fascinating, Mr Willey's book is a tremendous achievement and a great read. Minutely researched, hugely wide ranging, entertainingly written and bang up to date, it's clearly the work of someone who knows London very well, loves it to pieces, and has spent time poring over the A-to-Z looking for those lost areas of London which are buried in the binding or hidden away in the top lefthand corner of the page. Quite simply - and I know it's a cliché but this time it's completely true - this book reaches the parts other London writers simply don't.

Stunning
Russ Willey's London Gazetteer is a masterpiece of detail and extraordinary research. He has obviously spent a great deal of time studying the history of every conceivable corner of one of the world's most exciting and interesting cities and it is the work of an author who writes beatifully and clearly loves his subject. Any reader with an interest in London must buy this brilliant work.

Utterly brilliant!
Entertaining and quirky but also excellently researched, you'll discover the London that exists outside the tourist traps. Facts are not limited to the historic nor modern - you'll get a balanced picture of an area, how it grew up, what it's like now, who its famous residents were/are. The Gazetteer reveals fascinating facts about places I thought were grey and boring. WARNING: May turn you into a London-trivia fiend!