Looking Up in London

Jane and Helen Peyton grew up in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Jane works in factual television programme production and Helen lectures in art at colleges in Yorkshire. They are widely travelled, together and individually. They realised that buildings meant more to them than images of each other when, looking through their travel photographs, they found none of each other but dozens featuring balconies, chimneys and door frames. Looking up in London is their first professional collaboration.

Preface. Playing the Looking up in London game. Introduction: London's First Two Millennia. Section I: The City of London. Section II: Smithfield and Blackfriars. Section III: Fleet Street, Strand and Aldwych. Section IV: Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square. Section V: Holborn and Bloomsbury. Section VI: Oxford Circus. Section VII: Marylebone. Section VIII: Mayfair, Piccadilly and St James's. Section IX: Westminster and Victoria. Section X: Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Section XI: South Kensington and Kensington Gardens. Glossary of architectural terms. Bibliography. Further Reading.