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Peter Dazeley

Mark Daly

This visually stunning guide takes you on a journey to some of London's most interesting, surprising and unique places.

London is packed with little-known treasures: remarkably preserved historical houses, fascinating museums and galleries, unusual commercial and industrial buildings and sumptuous interiors that are glimpsed only on special occasions.

A follow-up to the hugely successful Unseen London and London Uncovered, London Explored is a unique London guidebook that opens the doors to more than sixty of the capital's most surprising and intriguing places. The locations include an upmarket gun shop, a working bronze foundry, a secret underground bunker, a lavish casino and a jewel-like chapel. Mark Daly’s lively commentary accompanies the stunning photography of Peter Dazeley.

From the lavish eighteenth-century private members' clubs of Westminster and the grand magnificence of the Admiralty Arch, through the city's wide array of cultural and historical museums, to a look inside the lesser known sights like Tower Bridge lifeboate station or Clapham's enormous abandonded underground bomb shelter, this beautiful compendium delves into the history and heritage of these places, offering a fascinating picture of one of the world's great cities as it was and as it is today.

Explore London with this special guide to the city's secret and surprising buildings. Describing the history and the character of each place, the book uncovers a wealth of stories about an endlessly remarkable world city with its own unique character.

Praise for Peter Dazeley and Mark Daly's previous book Unseen London:

‘A thrilling tour behind the closed doors of the capital city's buildings. ’ Daily Telegraph

‘Dazeley captures the atmosphere of each building to perfection. ’ Daily Express

‘Fascinating’ Fabric magazine

‘A joy’ Evening Standard

Frances Lincoln

Unseen London

London Explored: Secret, surprising and unusual places to discover in the Capital

This unique London guidebook opens the doors to sixty of the capital's most intriguing places, all visitable but not widely known. From museums of the unusual, places of worship, palaces of entertainment to some of the most historic and ornate shops, houses and hostelries in the city, take a trip through the capital's hidden treasure and discover a picture of a London which is strange, gaudy, grand and inventive. Describing the history and the character of each place, the book uncovers a wealth of stories about an endlessly fascinating world city with its own unique character. 

Introduction
 Cleopatra's Needle
 St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
 Isabella Plantation
 
Historical Homes
 Syon House
 Charles Dickens Museum
 Apsley House, Number One London
 Eltham Palace
 Leighton House Museum
 Strawberry Hill House
 Two Temple Place
 Kew Palace and The Royal Botanical Gardens
 
Food and Drink
 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
 Bibendum
 L. Manze
 Berry Bros. & Rudd
 Pickering Place
 The Ivy
 Smithfield Meat Market
 The Black Friar
 
Palaces of Entertainment
 The Rivoli Ballroom
 Wilton's Music Hall
 The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
 Regent's Street Cinema
 Gate Cinema Notting Hill
 The National Theatre
 Normansfield Theatre
 Wigmore Hall
 Gala Bingo Hall Tooting
 
Places of Worship
 Westminster Cathedral
 Welsh Baptist Chapel
 Peace Pagoda Battersea Park
 Masonic Temple at Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel
 St Bartholomew the Great
 Bevis Marks Synagogue
 St Mary le Bow
 Shri Sanatan Hindu Mandir, Wembley
 
Remarkable Shops
 LassCo Salvage
 L. Cornelissen & Son
 Truefitt and Hill
 Steinway & Sons
 James Smith & Sons
 John Lobb Ltd
 The Roof Gardens in Kensington
 
Science and Education
 Kempton Steam Museum
 Markfield Beam Engine Museum
 Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
 Charterhouse
 Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
 The Ragged School Museum
 London Museum of Water and Steam
 Royal Institution of Great Britain
 
Inns of Court
 The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
 The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
 The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
 The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
 The Temple Church
 
Unusual Museums
 The Royal Airforce Museum
 Horniman Museum
 Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
 Geffrye Museum of the Home
 HMS Belfast
 Massey Shaw
 The Monument
 Musical Museum
 The Wimbledon Windmill 

Praise for Peter Dazeley and Mark Daly's previous book Unseen London:

 'A thrilling tour behind the closed doors of the capital city's buildings.' —Daily Telegraph

 'Dazeley captures the atmosphere of each building to perfection.' —Daily Express

 'Fascinating.' —Fabric magazine 

 'A joy.' —Evening Standard

London Uncovered: Sixty Unusual Places to Explore