- Gebundene Ausgabe: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Little, Brown & Company (21. Oktober 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0316851523
- ISBN-13: 978-0316851527
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20 x 12,8 x 2,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.649.886 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Greenwich was initially thought a poor choice for the millennium celebrations. Beyond the picturesque park, Observatory and Naval College, it is a sprawl of run-down estates. The transport links were ineffectual and the Dome site was a ghastly industrial wasteland, in a state of what Jennings calls "poisonous decay" thanks to chemical plants and gas works. Many considered Birmingham a better choice. What swung the decision was the weight of history. What could be a more appropriate place to mark the millenium than the very place where time itself is measured?
Charles Jennings' Greenwich explores the history that culminated in the Dome--a story as curious and eclectic as the place itself. Somehow this obscure fishing village beyond city boundaries grew to become the centre of Britain's Navy, the birthplace of classical architecture and a Royal home. Greenwich Mean Time was declared in an 1880 Act of Parliament, having come into common use through railway timetable synchronisation. Before that, longitude, latitude and the positions of the stars were already been calculated at the Observatory.
Jennings' previous portraits of Britain--the upper classes caricatured in People Like Us and Northern life explored in Up North--demonstrated his wry humour. But Greenwichis a very different, meandering history, which doesn't always capture the place and its people. The most fascinating material in the book is the working-class history and lurid folk law--wild beast shows, "tumbling" and intoxication at the Greenwich Fair; the highwaymen of Blackheath; notorious murderers--which could have filled an entire book in itself.--Sarah Champion
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This humorous but informative user-friendly guide to Greenwich, looks at the maritime, royal and scientific history of the area and explores the preparations and plans for the Millennium as compared to the 1851 Great Exhibition and the 1951 Festival of Britain.
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IF THERE'S one scene that epitomises Greenwich, that does duty for it in the guidebooks and stands for the whole place in people's imaginations, it's the view of the Royal Naval College from the north side of the River Thames. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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IF THERE'S one scene that epitomises Greenwich, that does duty for it in the guidebooks and stands for the whole place in people's imaginations, it's the view of the Royal Naval College from the north side of the River Thames. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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An affectionate tour
24. September 2011
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Ah, our beloved Greenwich. A town full of history, naval connections and strong emotional links for my family, a town still punctually visited whenever any family member returns to England. Punctuality is also the mathematical definition of a point in space, and is most appropriately applied to Greenwich where the Meridian of world time and navigation was first fixed at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park. This small patch of greenness in among the rotting sprawl of docks, mud and gas-works of South East London has a genealogy encompassing Kings, Queens, sailors, Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys.
From the large Blackheath above, still a vast open green, past the Meridian Observatory with its charming Wren octagonal rooms and down the `tumbling' hill to the gorgeous Naval College, with the masts of the tea-clipper Cutty Sark soaring above the shores of the Thames each step we take with Jennings' narrative is full of history. He visits the Trafalgar Tavern, the last survivor of the three famously competing Whitebait serving Inns where one can still sit at wooden benches and eat the famous dish while looking at the largely unchanged view that featured so often in the Pepys diaries. The science of Greenwich - the Observatory, the Longitude, the Harrison Chronometers and the technical schools of the Royal Naval College - is contrasted with the working heritage of ships and docks, and the stunning buildings and river tunnels and ferries.
Charles Jennings, a Londoner himself writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Times and this book explores Greenwich with an investigating, journalistic depth. He elects to structure the work with Chapter headings that nominate the subject of each piece; Maritime, Arty, Working and Scientific and then poses a hypothetical interlocution which he then answers. Other than these rather annoying stylistic questions.. it is like listening again to Donald Rumsfield .. the book is fascinating, and for those that know and love this town offers an affectionate guide and visit.
The author's other books now tempt and some are already added to The Wish List!
From the large Blackheath above, still a vast open green, past the Meridian Observatory with its charming Wren octagonal rooms and down the `tumbling' hill to the gorgeous Naval College, with the masts of the tea-clipper Cutty Sark soaring above the shores of the Thames each step we take with Jennings' narrative is full of history. He visits the Trafalgar Tavern, the last survivor of the three famously competing Whitebait serving Inns where one can still sit at wooden benches and eat the famous dish while looking at the largely unchanged view that featured so often in the Pepys diaries. The science of Greenwich - the Observatory, the Longitude, the Harrison Chronometers and the technical schools of the Royal Naval College - is contrasted with the working heritage of ships and docks, and the stunning buildings and river tunnels and ferries.
Charles Jennings, a Londoner himself writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Times and this book explores Greenwich with an investigating, journalistic depth. He elects to structure the work with Chapter headings that nominate the subject of each piece; Maritime, Arty, Working and Scientific and then poses a hypothetical interlocution which he then answers. Other than these rather annoying stylistic questions.. it is like listening again to Donald Rumsfield .. the book is fascinating, and for those that know and love this town offers an affectionate guide and visit.
The author's other books now tempt and some are already added to The Wish List!
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