The Last London
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Erdos, David 253, 254–6, 257–8
Erstwhile, The (Catling) 36
Estuary (Lichtenstein) 60
Euston 21–2
Evelyn, John 5, 239
excavation 69–74, 75–80, 87–9, 91–2
Fairbridge Road 225–6
Featherstone, Lynne 130
Finer, Jem 284, 299
Finney, Albert 122–3
Flanagan, Maureen 278, 279
flâneuse 264, 266, 267
Ford, Ford Madox 6
Ford, Laura Oldfield 240–1
Foreman, Freddie 279
Forest Gate 240
fracking 74–5
Freeborn, Stuart 238
gangland 19–20, 41, 278–9
Garden Bridge 136
Garrett, Bradley L. 159–61, 162, 164
Gascoyne, David 124, 253–4, 256–7
Ghebrezgiabiher, Jürgen 135
Gill, Stephen 101–2, 103–10
Ginger Line, see London Overground
graffiti 165–7, 210
Grassl, Andreas ‘Piano Man’ 208, 211–12
Gravesend 198–200, 202–3, 208
Grealy, Nick 75
Great Eastern hotel 53–4
Green Lanes 229
Greenwich 296–9
Guy’s Hospital 268, 271
Hackney 28–9, 35–9, 103–5
and bicycles 131–2
and council 151–2, 213
and regeneration 84–5
Hackney Hole 69–71, 76–80
Haggerston Baths 148, 149–55, 215, 278
Haggerston Park 9–10, 11–17, 18–19, 26–7, 263
Hamilton, Patrick 189
Hampstead 254–5
Harold, King 280, 281, 286–7, 288, 307–8
Harris, Dan 291
Hastings 266–7, 286–7, 307–9
Hawksmoor churches 63, 104, 164, 180, 228–9
Hayday, Alan 74
Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 199–200
helicopters 141–2
Herd, David 297, 299, 302
Highbury & Islington 252–3
Highgate 169–70
housing 71–3, 161, 231, 292–3; see also huts
Human Age, The (Lewis) 33–4
huts 161–2, 164–5
Hythe 315–16
Idea Store 84
immigration 29–30, 289, 297–9
Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company 14
Iriondo, Josune 278
Isle of Sheppey 211
Italian community 185–6, 187, 189
Jackson, Michael 15
James, Henry 266, 292
Jarry, Alfred 119
Jewish cemeteries 55–6, 57–8, 62, 63–4
joggers 10–11
Johnson, Boris 75, 292, 136, 309
and bikes 40, 46, 117, 118, 120, 122, 129
Johnson, Uwe 210–11
Jones, David 139–40
Jones, Gavin 73
Journey through Ruins, A (Wright) 210, 213
Kagan, Erol 148–9
Kensal Rise 256
Kent 303–7, 312, 313, 314–16
Kentish Town 253
Khan, Sadiq 136–7, 216, 225
Kiefer, Anselm 83–4
King’s College Hospital 261
Kobek, Jarett 165–6, 167, 250–1
Kossoff, Leon 48
Kötting, Andrew 185, 220
and Brexit 282, 303–5, 312, 313–14
and nightwalk 246–8, 249–50, 251, 253, 255–61, 263
Kray Twins 278, 279
Laburnam School 148–9
Lambrianou, Tony 41, 42, 278
Land Under England (O’Neill) 90–2
Larkin, Philip 124
Leonard of Noblac, St 19, 20, 316
Lewis, Wyndham 33–4
Leytonstone 236–9
Lichtenstein, Rachel 54, 59–60, 176, 179
Little Dorrit (Dickens) 163
Liverpool Street Station 47–50, 265–6, 269
Livingstone, Ken 129–30, 136
London Bridge (Céline) 25
London Bridge station 139, 140, 267–8
London Fields 113–14
London Local Energy 75
London Overground 8, 94–7, 168–9, 224–5, 241–2
London Overground (Sinclair) 181, 247
Lumley, Joanna 136
Lyttle, William ‘Mole Man’ 80–3, 84, 87, 88–9
McCluskie, Gemma 34–5, 39–40, 41–2, 43, 44–6
McFadyen, Jock 99–101, 121, 129
Macfarlane, Robert 161
MacGillivray 287
Mackay, Shena 221
McLean, Leonard John ‘Lenny’ 20
McVitie, Jack 41, 42, 278
Major, John 119
Makar, Zdenek 126
Mandelson, Peter 117
Margaret, St 20–1
markets 44
Marshalsea Prison 163
Mason, Sophie 79
May, Theresa 309
Mendoza, Daniel 99
Minton, John 110
Mole Man, see Lyttle, William
Moorcock, Michael 87–8
Moore, Alan 250, 309–10, 311–12
Morgan, Mark 79
multiculture 12–13
Muñoz, David 7
Munster Square 21, 22–5
narrowboats 31–2, 90
Neale, Anne 208
Neale, John Mason 18, 21
Network Rail 224–5
New Cross 186–8
New Labour 117, 123, 124
nightwalking 247–63, 265–7
Noble, Tim 85, 88, 89
Norman, Will 112
Northampton 309–12
Norwood Junction 193–4
O’Brien, Flann 118–19
O’Donnell, Anthony ‘Anonymous Bosch’ 285, 304–5
O’Duffy, Eoin 91
Olympic Stadium 101, 291
Olympicopolis 34, 36, 46, 145, 290–5
On Brick Lane (Lichtenstein) 176, 179
O’Neill, Joseph 90–2
Osborne, George 120
Paleologou, Effie 264, 265–7, 268–71, 273–4, 275–7
Papadimitriou, Nick 237, 253
Parry-Davies, Bill 80, 152, 154
Paul, St 20
Pelter Street 42–4
Penge Road 192
Perry, Grayson 137
Petit, Chris 225–6, 238
Phillips, Morgan 124
Piano, Renzo 140, 144–5, 160
‘Piano Man’, see Grassl, Andreas
pigeons 105–7
Poringland 61
Port, Stephen 244
Prescott, John 158–9
Prynne, JH 124–5
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, see Olympicopolis
Raban, Jonathan 13
railways 217–18, 224–5; see also Crossrail; London Overground
Rand, Ayn 250
Ranger, Kulveer 122
Rauschenberg, Robert 246–7
recreation 113–15
Redchurch Street 85–7
refugees 297–9
regeneration 84–7
Regent’s Canal 10–11, 120–1
Richard Montgomery, SS 209
Richards, Ceri 215
Richards, Keith 200
riots 109–11, 234
Rodinsky, David 60
Rogers, John 229–30, 236–9, 247–8, 251, 253
Rohmer, Sax 268
Roman Empire 6
Rope, Margaret 19, 20, 24–6, 27
rough-sleepers 27, 28–31; see also Vegetative Buddha
Russo, Karen 80–3, 84, 88
St Ann’s Hospital 229–30, 231
St Augustine’s church 18–19, 20
St Clement’s Hospital 58
St Leonards-on-Sea 3–6, 8, 260, 286–7
St Leonard’s Shoreditch church 19–20, 25
St Mary Magdalene church 23–6
St Paul’s Cathedral 20, 144
St Saviour’s Priory 17–18, 20, 21
/> Sandhu, Sukhdev 142
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film) 122–3
Scott, Ridley 117, 118
Sebald, WG 22, 40, 49, 51, 59–64, 182–3
and Liverpool Street 269
and Watts 52–4, 55–7, 177, 183–4, 193
Self, Will 106, 253, 254, 263
Sellar, Irvine 144, 158, 160, 162
Shangri-La hotel, see Shard, the
Shard, the 139, 140–1, 142–8, 155–60, 162–3
Shaw, Fiona 56–7
Sheerness 208–12
Shepherd’s Bush 258
Sherratt, Matt 128–9
Shoreditch 19–20, 85–7
Simenon, Georges 259
Smith, John 238
Snyder, Gary 74–5
Society of St Margaret 17–18
Soft City (Raban) 13
Spain 7
Spitalfields 52–5
Stencl, Avram Nachum 54–5
Stone, Martin 7–8, 218–20, 222–3, 228–9, 233–4, 242
Stuart, Francis 91
swimming pools 148, 149–55; see also Shard, the
Tebbit, Norman, Lord 118, 119
Thames, River 259–60
Thames Estuary 198–212
Thatcher, Margaret 150, 184, 203–5, 213, 292
and funeral 198, 200–2, 207–8, 209, 212
Third Age Project 23–4
Thorpe, Rupert Lyell 15
Tilbury 198, 205–8
Tottenham 229–34
Tower Hamlets Cemetery 58, 63
trams 217
Trump, Donald 213–14, 219–20, 221–2, 227–8, 243
20:50 (Wilson) 141, 142–3
vagrants 35–9
Vegetative Buddha 9–14, 16–17, 18, 248–9, 263, 276–7
Vettriano, Jack 5
Victoria Park 114–16
Volker Highways 38–9, 70, 112, 113, 161
Wakeling, EJ 150
Wales 265
Walker, Angie 207
Waltham Abbey 280, 286–7
Walthamstow 234–6
Watts, Stephen 50–7, 60, 63–5, 175–9, 191–4
and Croydon 181, 184–5, 186–7, 189, 195–6
and Sebald 182, 183–4
Webster, Sue 85, 86, 87, 88, 89
Wells, HG 119–20, 315
West, Fred 89
West Croydon, see Croydon
West Ham United FC 291
Westfield 258
Westway 257–8
Wheels of Chance, The (Wells) 119–20
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (Sinclair) 219
Whitechapel 55–6, 57–8, 177–8, 179–80
Whitechapel (Rodinsky) 60
Wiggins, Sir Bradley 291
Wilberforce Road 72–3
Wilson, Rev HA 18
Wilson, Richard 141, 142–3
Wilton’s Music Hall 56–7
Wiredu, Adjoa 231–2
women 264
Word on the Water (book-barge) 90–1
World War II 15
Worpole, Ken 151
Wright, Patrick 210, 213
Yeats, WB 91
Yorkton Street 17–18
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