London Garden Book A-Z

London Garden Book A-ZLondon is home to over 3 million gardens, from pocket handkerchief front yards to historic horticultural sites like Westminster College Garden (over 900 years old and still thriving). For many city dwellers, green has become the new black and a new style of gardening has emerged, reflecting London's diverse population. Allotments and community gardens allow gardenless urbanites to enjoy tending plants and harvesting their own food, fly by night

Although the London view was published in 1572 it shows the city at an earlier date

The photographs were used to guarantee the book's authenticity

horse drawn omnibus with passengers

urban archaeology

Interior view of the room with a well attended sale in the East India Company

circa 1930

Bayswater Turnpike

This painting shows the great fire of London as seen from a boat in vicinity of Tower Wharf

Lara Maiklem is the most widely followed mudlark online

cultural and political changes within those communities which have fundamentally transformed the city

and detailed line drawings

the fare was a shilling