SALON 63 BOOK CLUB - LONDON SEWERS

In collaboration with the Westminster Reference Library we will be posting a monthly Book Club reading list.

These books will be available for loan if you you have a Westminster Library Card.  If not bring some ID and join tonight.

Author  Title  (publisher)  shelf mark
Nicholas Barton   The Lost Rivers of London (London: Historical Publications, 1992 & 2016) WRF 942.11

 

Antony Clayton   Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London (London: Historical Publications, 2000 & 2010)    WRF 942.11
 

James Stevens Curl   Victorian Architecture: Its Practical Aspects (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973)   WRF A724.424 Art Stack
 

Paul Dobrasxczyk   Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Victorian Sewers (Reading: Spire Books, 2009)   WRF F725.4
 

Terry Farrell   Shaping London: The Patterns and Forms that make the Metropolis (Chichester: Wiley, 2010)  WRF 711.409426
 

Steven Halliday   The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2001)  various branches inc CHX, not in WRF
 

Stephen Smith   Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets  (London: Little, Brown, 2004)  WRF 942.11
 

Richard Trench & Ellis Hillman   London Under London (London: Murray, 1993)   WRF 942.11

William Feaver The Art of John Martin (Oxford; Clarendon, 1975)  WRF 752.09   and other books about JM. He had ambitious plans to reform London’s sewerage system.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/john-martin-apocalypse/john-...

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