Secret London An Unusual Guide

Described as the best guide to alternative London, this book is fascinating and full of London’s best-kept secrets. Whether you are interested in mingling with the most impressive handlebar moustaches in the country, paying your respects at the dog cemetery in Hyde Park, visiting a masonic temple, taking trapeze lessons in a former power station, prying in a floating church, sailing on a disused reservoir, discovering the stone from which Arthur drew Excalibur, admiring the sacred penis of a pharaoh, having a game on the City’s last bowling green, examining a cucumber straightener, seeing a stuffed mermaid or a cow’s heart, going stargazing at Greenwich Observatory......

Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, London still reserves any number of hidden treasures for those who know how to wander off the beaten track.