Eccentric London (Bradt Travel Guides (Eccentric Guides))

by Benedict Le Vay (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.25

  Meet a man who listens to tube trains from the road above with a large hearing-trumpet...the inventor who made giant ships out of ice...a chap who rides down the river in an Edwardian bath chair...the guy with the world's biggest collection of pillar boxes...These are just a few of the colourful characters to be found in Eccentric London , the fascinating follow-up to Benedict le Vay's sell-out book, Eccentric Britain . Here the London-born author devises district-by-district guides to everything compelling, curious, bizarre, absurd or hilarious. Plus the oddest shops, museums, jobs, pubs and people you could possibly imagine.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  Looking at the eccentric people, places and events of the capital, this is a guide to exploring little-known London curiosities such as eccentric shopping, time-warp stores, speciality shops and off-beat street markets. It goes behind the scenes of famous addresses and offers tales from the graveyard, collectomanics and strange stores, as well as eccentric people from crackpot collectors to barmy characters from history.