Research Catalog

Title

The city of Westminster : a celebration of people and places / photography by Alice Rosenbaum ; foreword by Simon Jenkins.

Author

Rosenbaum, Alice

Publication

London : Quartet Books Limited, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jenkins, Simon

Description

162 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 33 cm

Summary

One million people come into Westminster every day. It contains most of the offices of the British State. Its commercial economy makes up three per cent of the entire UK economy. Its West End shopping area has a monthly footfall of nearly 22 million. Its theatres, cinemas, pubs and restaurants contribute towards the largest 'night-time' economy in Europe. Three-quarters of Westminster lies within a conservation area preserving one of the largest number of listed buildings of any borough in the United Kingdom. This book offers a snapshot of the variety and diversity of people living, working or just visiting Westminster, reflecting all of its range and complexity. From Dame Judi Dench and Sir Kenneth Branagh, London Fashion Week, the epic Crossrail construction site, HM The Queen's 90th birthday 41-gun salute, the annual Silver Sunday tea dance for 1,000 pensioners, cleaning Chinatown, to two of the earliest residents on the Churchill Estate, still there and about to celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary, the many rich fruits of the City of Westminster are here to savour.

Subject

• Manners and customs
• Westminster (London, England) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• England > Westminster

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "Published in support of the Sir Simon Milton Foundation" --T.p.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0704374064
• 9780704374065

OCLC

• 934197137
• SCSB-12846566

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library