Main Interest
- 1851 Great Exhibition
- 1853 accident
- 1855 & 1867 Expositions
- 1862 Exhibition
- 1864 Rammell's pneumatic railway
- 1903 & 1904 Motor Shows
- 1908 Franco-British Exhibition
- 1908-1914 White City
- 1911 Festival of Empire
- 1920 IWM & Great Victory Exhibition
- 1921 Poultry Show
- 1924 British Empire Exhibition
- 1936 Crystal Palace Fire
- 1951 Festival of Britain
- 1998-1999 anti multiplex protest
- 2000 Millennium Dome
- Aeronautics
- Alexandra Palace
- Art and architecture
- Biography & Works
- Camille Pissarro
- Circus
- Collecting
- Colouring & drawing
- CPF Publications
- Cricket and Bowling
- Croydon and Norbury
- Crystal Palace & area
- Crystal Palace Company & bankruptcy
- Crystal Palace fire station
- Crystal Palace police
- Cycling
- Delamotte images
- Dinosaurs
- Dulwich
- Emile Zola
- Exhibition history
- Fireworks
- Football
- Girl Guides 75th anniversary
- Great North Wood
- Guide Books & Orienteering
- Ideal Home & South London exhibitions
- Infomart, Dallas, USA
- Isambard K. Brunel
- Maps of London
- Motor Sport
- Music & Religion
- Novels
- Penge & Beckenham
- Raffaele Monti
- Railways
- Rare & out of print
- Sport - other
- St. Joseph's College, Beulah Hill
- Sydenham & Forest Hill
- Television history & John Logie Baird
- Trams and trolleybuses
- West Norwood and Cemetery
- World War One
- World War Two
Shop Services
The Book of Penge, Anerley & Crystal Palace |
The Community, Past, Present & Future
by Peter Abbott & the Anerley Writers Circle
The Book of Penge, Anerley & Crystal Palace unfolds a panorama of fascinating, near unbelievable and occasionally bizarre events which have taken place in the area. Readers are invited to reflect upon the causes and effects of such events and ways in which things can be improved in the future.
The area's history is charted back over 1,000 years; the book outlines the unprecedented development since the early-1800s, local setbacks on a catastrophic scale and comebacks reflecting the gritty determination of its people.
This is a very rare book that only occasionally becomes available
PLEASE NOTE: All the copies have been purchased from high-class antique book dealers and are therefore of good quality. Second hand books are however subject to the usual problems - light foxing and / or lightly stained pages, loose or missing spines and the page edges, etc may not be perfect. Where available the jackets may not be perfect (and we may not have any in stock with a jacket). The pages are always fully secure. The best available copy of the book will always be sent.
160 pages. Over 200 historic photographs, maps and illustrations. Hardback.