Some Book Recommendations.

Graveyard London, Lost & forgotten burial grounds.

by Robert Bard.                                                           £16.95

Historical Publications ISBN: 978-1-905286-25-6

This is a very interesting book with loads of photos and interesting information through the ages on just how London coped with its dead.

Haunted London by James Clark                            £9.99

Tempus Publishing ISBN: 978-0-7524-4459-8

An interesting collection of anecdotes of unexplained happenings around London’s famous and not so famous buildings. Again with a smattering of photographs.

The House by the Thames and the people who lived there.

by Gillian Tindall                                                        £8.99

Pimlico  ISBN: 978-1-844-13094-8

A book that actually mentions John Cator, who had the mansion in BPP built, was a magnet, but this book also delivers a whole picture of life south of the Thames, an area often neglected in many histories of London. The Georgian house referred to is just across the river from St Paul’s cathedral on Bankside. It is still there tucked away with the Millennium Bridge, Tate Modern and the Globe all representing different eras.

The Story of Beckenham Green

by Pat Manning and Cliff Watkins                          £4.50            

Jenna Publishing ISBN: 987-0-9540202-8-6         

Local authors have done it again with a very interesting book on an area that was changed by the Luftwaffe in the second World War. But this book tells of far more than one event and gives a glimpse of how Beckenham changed from a small rural village to the bustling area is today.