London

ALASTAIR HORNE has been a regular visitor to London for more than 20 years. After working for more than a decade at Cambridge University Press, he is now undertaking doctoral research at the British Library and Bath Spa University. He is also a journalist, speaker and lecturer specializing in the publishing industry and author of Paris: The City of Light.

• IntroductionEveryday London Carnaby Street Brick Lane Camden Lock Hackney Wick The Thames Covent Garden market Covent Garden street performers Leadenhall market St Martin’s Theatre The Palace Theatre Queen’s Theatre Regent’s Park open air theatre Hampstead Ponds Battersea Bridge Somerset House London Marathon Cutty Sark London Central Mosque Brahmotsavam chariot festival Vaisakhi festival, City Hall Chelsea Embankment Piccadilly Circus The Savoy Hotel Columbia Road flower market Brixton Market Jeppe Hein’s water sculptureFood and Drink Borough Market Brixton Market Walthamstow Market Brick Lane Market Notting Hill Carnival Spitalfields Market Full English Breakfast The Coppa Club Canary Wharf Pie and Mash Fish and Chips The Albert on Victoria Street The Churchill Arms The Sherlock Holmes Tea at the Connaught hotel Harrods Food Hall Claridge’s afternoon tea Gordon Ramsey’s Maze restaurant Wine merchants Berry Bros. & RuddLandmarks Royal Albert Hall Zebra crossing, Abbey Road The Royal Observatory at Greenwich Battersea Power Station Highgate Cemetery Canary Wharf The British Museum The ‘Gherkin’ The Lloyds Building The Shard The O2 Arena The Thames Barrier St Paul’s Cathedral Admiralty Arch Buckingham Palace The Tower of London 10 Downing Street Westminster Abbey The Palace of Westminster The London Eye Trafalgar Square Tate Modern Natural History Museum Victoria and Albert Museum Wimbledon Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich The London Aquatics Centre Wembley StadiumParks and Green Spaces Crystal Palace Park Epping Forest pond Richmond Park Holland Park Parliament Hill Hampstead Heath Shooter’s Hill Hyde Park Kensington Gardens The Serpentine Bridge Kew Gardens Regent’s Park Greenwich Park St James’s Park Walthamstow Wetlands Clapham Common Green ParkNightlife Piccadilly Circus Oxford Street Drinking at a London pub Southbank Winter Market Westminster Abbey at night Southbank Centre Christmas Market Christmas in Leicester Square New Year fireworks over Tower Bridge The Comedy Store, Soho The Windmill Theatre, Soho Chinese New Year at Chinatown The Prince Edward Theatre Covent Garden at Christmas Harrods Lumiere festival Kew Gardens Pavilion Sky Pod Bar at 20 Fenchurch Street The Southbank Centre Open-air screening at Trafalgar Square Skyscrapers at night South Kensington station at night Sun sets behind the Houses of ParliamentTransport St John’s Wood station Docklands Light Railway train St Pancras International station Platform 9 3⁄4, King’s Cross Leicester Square station Covent Garden station London Bridge Station Baker Street Underground station Tottenham Court Road Underground station Belsize Park Underground station Chiswick Park station London buses outside Euston station London taxis queue along Whitehall Blackwall Tunnel Tower Bridge Westminster Bridge Rolling Bridge at Paddington Basin The Millennium Bridge Blackfriars Bridge Police boat patrolling the river Small boat sails down the Thames Pleasure cruiser turns on the Thames Narrowboats on the Regent’s Canal Paddington Basin riverside Bicycle docking station at the Westfield Shopping Centre Cycle Superhighway, route CS7 London City Airport Gatwick Airport Gatwick Express Heathrow Airport