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It s hard to believe that there could be any secrets left to discover in London. After all, it s teeming with 10million people and is one of the most visited cities in the world.
But this mesmerising metropolis hides plenty of unexpected treasures, as new book Abandoned London (www.amberbooks.co.uk) reveals.
Written by Katie Wignall - a London Blue Badge tourist guide and founder of the Look Up London history blog and walking tour company - the tome features images and detailed historical descriptions of more than 200 sites left to ruin. In it you can read about the subterranean Finsbury Park underground reservoir, a space capable of holding five million gallons of water and today used as an occasional movie location; the remnants of Highgate s overground steam railway station, now a protected bat habitat, and the Haggerston public baths, part of an early 20th century building programme devised to improve London s hygiene.
Residents have begun moving into Battersea Power Station after the first section of Wilkinson Eyre’s restoration and conversion of the grade II -listed landmark completed.
The interiors and layouts of the 98 flats, which feature original brick and steelwork dating back to the 1930s, were designed by Michaelis Boyd, while lead architect Wilkinson Eyre was responsible for the communal interiors as well as for the restoration project.
The milestone comes ahead of the project’s full completion next year when the public will be allowed into the new shops, cafes and offices in the building which for so many decades lay derelict on the banks of the Thames, an apparently hopeless case.
2 red phone boxes go up for sale in Nottingham city centre - but they could set you back £30k
Many have been turned into coffee shops and museums
04:00, 22 MAY 2021
The phone boxes in Nottingham (Image: Nottingham Post)
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Two historic red phone boxes have gone up for sale in Nottingham.