Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End

Jennings, Charles

ISBN 10: 0316851523 / ISBN 13: 9780316851527

Published by Little, Brown, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End
• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316851523
• ISBN 13: 9780316851527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL GREENWICH - Greenwich Park was Henry VIII's favourite residence and where he met Anne Boelyn; SCIENTIFIC GREENWICH - home of the Royal Observatory and GMT and of course The Dome itself...

What's it going to be like compared to similar vast jamborees - the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival Britain of 1951, what is that strange fabric stretched over those yellow spikes and WHO is going to settle in the 1400-home Millennium Village, to be opened in 2000, with the remains of the old gasworks lying a couple of feet below?

About the Author

Charles Jennings was born in London and was educated there and at Oxford University. He is married with two children and works as a writer and journalist.