Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End

By Charles Jennings

Book Overview

There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL GREENWICH - Greenwich Park was Henry VIII's favourite residence and where he met Anne Boelyn; SCIENTIFIC GREENWICH - home of the Royal Observatory and GMT and of course The Dome itself...

What's it going to be like compared to similar vast jamborees - the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival Britain of 1951, what is that strange fabric stretched over those yellow spikes and WHO is going to settle in the 1400-home Millennium Village, to be opened in 2000, with the remains of the old gasworks lying a couple of feet below?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349112304
• ISBN13: 9780349112305
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.9"