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By Mark Riddaway,Carl Upsall

ISBN-10: 1910151033

ISBN-13: 9781910151037

Marylebone has been domestic to its justifiable share of rogues, villains and eccentrics, and their tales are instructed the following. The authors additionally are looking to remind the reader that along the glamour of Society, there has additionally been complication and squalor within the parish, as was once graphically illustrated in Charles Booth's poverty maps of London in 1889.

Over the earlier 10 years the Marylebone magazine has published historic essays at the humans, locations, and occasions that experience assisted in shaping the nature of the world. a few are honored with a blue plaque, yet many aren't. this isn't a check-list of the grandees of Marylebone, notwithstanding lots look in those pages.

The essays were grouped into issues of: heritage, politicians and warriors, tradition and recreation (from pop tune and tv to excessive art), love and marriage (stories from romance to acrimonious divorce), criminals, technology and drugs, structures and areas, and the mad undesirable and hazardous to grasp ‒ these whose tales do not healthy a handy field yet are too solid to not tell.

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