London bridge and its houses c.1209-1761

Dorian Gerhold - 2021 Oxbow / London Topographical Society hardback

ISBN 978-1-78925-751-9

Immaculate condition. 

Rare large format study - no longer available from the LTS

For 550 years old London bridge was Europe's most unusual shopping street. Up to 500 people lived and worked in houses built directly over the Thames.

This is the first book to map every single house and shop using newly discovered archives.

What's inside:

- Complete house-by-house survey 1209 to 1761

- Who lived there: merchants, goldsmiths, barber-surgeons, and notorious tenants

- How the houses were built, maintained, and survived floods and fires

- 5 brand new reconstruction drawings showing the bridge at different periods

- Full colour maps, plans, paintings, and historic illustrations throughout

- The story of the final demolition in 1761

Book details:

- Author: Dorian Gerhold FRHS FSA - fellow of the Royal Historical Society

- Publisher: Oxbow Books for the London Topographical Society

- Year: 2021 reprint

- ISBN: 978-1-78925-751-9

- Format: Large hardback 30 x 25cm

- Pages: 168pp fully illustrated in colour and b/w