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By Colin Manton

The Victorian period observed nice adjustments to the nation’s capital. This booklet illustrates the nineteenth-century points of London that the Victorians have been so pleased with: the pioneering public well-being engineering of Bazalgette’s process of intercepting sewers; the great public constructions comparable to the ‘new’ Gothic homes of Parliament and large Ben; the classical and iconic British Museum; the nice usual historical past Museum; large new railway termini and railway lodges; and, in fact, the world’s first underground railway. The e-book additionally seems on the much less savoury part of Victorian existence: public hangings at Newgate, and the area recognized to Charles Dickens, contrasting scenes of squalor round St Giles to the beauty of the nice Exhibition, dubbed the ‘Crystal Palace’.

Through an exciting collection of Victorian engravings and modern photos, this booklet compares the ‘world urban’ that was once so imaginatively and with a bit of luck constructed by way of the Victorians with today’s dynamic, multicultural urban of trade and tradition, which so usually hits the headlines.

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