Untold London

Stories from Time-Trodden Streets

Dan Carrier

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781803990491
• eBook ISBN:
  9781803992259
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

"Just pick up a copy and set off. You'll be amazed at what you've missed." - Sir Michael Palin
MARCH, 2020: A columnist watches as London locks down, facing a conundrum as his weekly deadline for his newspaper diary approaches.
With the city shutting up shop and column inches to fill, journalist Dan Carrier takes to the deserted streets of Central London to uncover the forgotten stories the heart of the UK capital holds.
Untold London is a consideration and celebration of a city whose famous landmarks and thoroughfares are often taken for granted. Setting out to find lingering evidence of days gone by, Dan reveals unexpected delights, triumphs and tragedies alongside plenty of skulduggery and scandal in the greatest city in the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Dogs, Dolphins, Dancers and Diners
• The Tube Map Maestro
• Piccadilly Peccadilloes
• Pelicans, Parakeets and Sir Humphrey’s Nuts
• Landseer’s Lions and Livingstone’s Post-Pigeon Plaza
• Hogarth and the Angel of the Rookeries
• God Gave Rock and Roll To You
• Crossrail, Centrepoint and the Lost Fountains of Jupp
• The Brolly Brewer
• Fitzrovian Thought and Boho Soho
• Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Head-Turning Hotel
• Beatlemania and Guild-y Secrets
• Chips with Everything
• A Right Royal Ramble
• Of Pubic Interest
• Good for your Constitution
• Pick Up a Picasso
• Magic Horses Talking French
• None-the-lessing, we are Schmeissing
• Way Out West
• Canal Knowledge
• Beyond the Vale
• Creating the Carnival
• Nothing Like a Dame, Black Star Liners and Hero Railwaymen
• Droopy Drains and the Human Scarecrows
• Bowling Along
• The World’s Most Dangerous Animal
• The Jackanory of Roger Fry
• Theatrical Marionettes and Menus
• This is a Stick-Up
• ‘Cold Beer is Bottled God’
• On Your Marx
• Indecently Early for Verse
• Nobbling Nags
• Laughing One’s Self to Death
• The Flying Squad
• Improper Pimlico
• Steptoe, Stoker and Squares
• Businessmen’s Bottoms
• Flash and Loan: The Downfall of a Pornographic Prose Pioneer
• Baronet Butt’s House of Farce
• Around the World … by Horse-Drawn Tram
• Snails, Horse Baths and Queen Vic
• From Great Filth Comes Great Beauty
• Sounds of the Seas
• Going Up! Falling Down!
• Just a Bad Cold
• Runners, Riders and Romeos
• Stained Glass and Captain Webb
• Liberty, Modernity, Haberdashery
• From Leather to Lentils
• Occupe-toi de tes Oignons!
• Paving the Way to Paris
• The Ungodly Boredom of Don Sebastian
• Tea, Toast and Tagliatelle
• A Market for Musos
• The Preposterous Parson
• Batty Langley and Occupations of Ill Repute
• Legs for the Legless
• The Radio Star
• Spaghetti. Art. Sex
• Hogs, Opium and Monkey Business
• Ginger, You’re Barmy
• Uptown Top Ranking
• Tong Yan Kai, the Civil War and the World of Kate Meyrick
• The Unfortunate Frederick the Drunk
• De Paleotti’s Sword
• Small in Stature but Always Standing Tall
• We Never Clothed
• Shaken, Not Stirred, at Scotty’s
• Boy, the Devil Poodle
• The Widow Goolightley, Turtle Soup and Sherry
• Stanley’s Stamps
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
• Brian Haw and the Human Cannonball
• Exotic Fruits and Baby Dragons
• Right Hookes
• Regency Splendour
• Stand and Deliver
• Loyal Citizens, Useful Workers, Solid Christians
• Elbow Grease
• Interpreting the Bible and the Discovery of the Proletariat
• A Titanic Feast
• Greek Kings and Dead Housekeepers
• The Hunger Marchers
• Tweet Tweet, Brum Brum
• Laughs and the Enlightenment
• The Noble Art and Noble Artists
• Beer, Bloomers, Balloonists
• Getting a Hiding in the Park
• Eat My Feet
• Wherefore Art Thou?
• A Brief Visit to the Pictures
• One Solution: Revolution!
• Steam Player
• Canal Pursuits
• Funk Soul Brothers
• The Road Runs Straight
• Pay by the Pane
• Troubled Times
• The Sooty Wicket
• The Life of Brain
• Flying the Flag at Windsor
• How the War Was Won
• Trading Places
• Breaker-Breaker Ten-Four
• Plays in the Round and the Generosity of Old Man MacTaggart
• The Story of a Hero
• Hit it for Six
• Put your Daughter on the Stage, Mr Siddons
• The Marylebone Cake
• Quack, Quack, Quack
• Four Wheels Good