AN UNUSUAL GUIDE to London brings to the reader’s attention splendours and oddities of the metropolis: parks, palaces and pubs, unnoticed details, and quiet backwaters. In companionable manner the reader is conducted through central London, and what is really worth doing and seeing is pointed out. At the back of the book, practical information is listed about methods of travel, hotels, restaurants, shops, museums, etc., and there is an index. “The Companion Guide to London,” by David Piper (Collins), will contribute greatly to the success of a visit to London, and give pleasure to those who have been there. The book has many illustrations—all interesting, some unusual. At top left, a lantern on the gates to Green Park is typical of florid Edwardian (1911) design, and at top right a section of a lamp-post in Northumberland avenue illustrates design of the late Victorian age. At bottom, the gates to Green Park are seen, and through them the sombre facade of Buckingham Palace.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30763, 29 May 1965, Page 4

AN UNUSUAL GUIDE to London brings to the reader’s attention splendours and oddities of the metropolis: parks, palaces and pubs, unnoticed details, and quiet backwaters. In companionable manner the reader is conducted through central London, and what is really worth doing and seeing is pointed out. At the back of the book, practical information is listed about methods of travel, hotels, restaurants, shops, museums, etc., and there is an index. “The Companion Guide to London,” by David Piper (Collins), will contribute greatly to the success of a visit to London, and give pleasure to those who have been there. The book has many illustrations—all interesting, some unusual. At top left, a lantern on the gates to Green Park is typical of florid Edwardian (1911) design, and at top right a section of a lamp-post in Northumberland avenue illustrates design of the late Victorian age. At bottom, the gates to Green Park are seen, and through them the sombre facade of Buckingham Palace.