From Crossness pumping station to Whitechapel bell foundry, a new book is taking readers inside some surpising London rooms which most people never get to see.
Unseen London is the work of celebrated London snapper Peter Dazeley with writer Mark Daly and includes some stunning images.
All images by Peter Dazeley
1. Crossness main pumping room, Abbey Wood
A remarkable octagonal pavilion with arched screens. Designed by the chief engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
2. Old Royal Naval College Skittle Alley
This Greenwich alley was used from about 1864 to relieve the boredom of the Greenwich Pensioners living at the Royal Hospital for Seamen with practice wooden cannonballs.
3. Old Royal Naval College crypt
The only surviving part of Greenwich Palace called the Undercroft. Where Henry VIII was born.
4. The Thames Barrier control room
A rare shot inside the hub of this Charlton landmark, one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world.
5. Repton Boxing Gym
Travelling out of south east London, Repton Boxing Club’s wall of honour with wall suspended punch bags alongside the ring where mangles and washing machines once stood in its former days as a wash house.
6. Whitechapel Bell Foundry courtyard
This world famous foundry, the oldest manufacturing company in the UK, are the makers of Big Ben and the Liberty Bell.
7. Tower Bridge
Another stunning image, taken under the south pier at Tower Bridge.
8. Abbey Mills Pumping Station
The Victorian pump room Abbey Mill sewage Pumping Station, Bromley-by –Bow, designed by the chief engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works, Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
Images taken from the book Unseen London. Photographs by Peter Dazeley, www.peterdazeley.com, Text by Mark Daly, Published by Frances Lincoln, £30, www.franceslincoln.com
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