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Around 1,300 gas lamps still burn on the streets of London, survivors of a network that once lit the entire city. This guide explores them on foot, across six central London walks taking in Pall Mall, Westminster, Covent Garden, the Inns of Court, Hyde Park and Kensington, and the corridor between Green Park and Buckingham Palace. Written by the London Gasketeers, the campaign group responsible for protecting and restoring the capital’s gas lamps, the guide combines a walker’s itinerary with a working knowledge of the lamps themselves: their history, their mechanics, and the small team that maintains them on a fortnightly rotation. Sidebars cover the four lamp styles still in use, the lamplighters’ craft, and the Gasketeers’ own history and achievements. Gas street lighting was first demonstrated on Pall Mall in 1807. More than two centuries on, the lamps are still there. This guide shows you where to find them.
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Los Angeles is a city that rarely looks back. Yet scattered across it are places that have endured, remaining in use while the city around them has been rebuilt and reimagined. How To Find Old Los Angeles is a guide to 45 such places: bars, diners, restaurants, shops, and long-established institutions that continue to operate much as they always have, serving locals and visitors side by side. These are not landmarks set apart from everyday life. They are working places where you can order a whiskey or a root beer float, a taco or a burger, or step in off the street to take care of ordinary business. This guide offers an entry point into a Los Angeles of an earlier era, one that remains accessible, and that will last only for as long as people continue to use it.
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In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it – a city of gaslight, theatres, grand hotels and shadowed alleys. This guide sets Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories against the map of London, tracing their adventures from Baker Street to Brixton, from Pall Mall to Paddington. Real addresses stand beside the fictional: vanished lanes, demolished halls and invented squares, all layered onto the living city. Each entry places a story in its setting, exploring both the history and the imagination that shaped it. Whether stepping into a Turkish bath on Northumberland Avenue, following a Christmas goose to Covent Garden, or glimpsing fragments of the Red-Headed League off Fleet Street, readers walk the blurred line between fact and fiction. An essential companion for Sherlockians and London-lovers alike, Into the Fog reveals a city elusive, atmospheric and steeped in intrigue.
