The making of a London suburb : capital comes to Penge /

The making of a London suburb : capital comes to Penge /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Spence, Martin.
Imprint:	Monmouth, Wales : Merlin Press, 2007.
Description:	x, 131 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Suburbs -- England -- History -- 18th century. Suburbs -- England -- History -- 19th century. Suburbs. Penge (London, England) -- History. England. England -- London -- Penge. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7252039

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ISBN:	9780850365894 0850365899
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-126) and index.
Summary:	"Penge is an unpretentious, ordinary, resolutely unfashionable railway suburb, adrift in the low-rise sprawl of south-east London. This is a study of the transformation of the local landscape during the key period from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries when Penge was transformed from a semi-rural hamlet into a thoroughly urban railway suburb."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

Maps and illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An ordinary little place
Part I. Context
1. 'The bourgeoisie has created enormous cities': Capital and the city
2. 'Only magnificent': The growth of London
3. 'The suburbs of your good pleasure': The growth of South London
Part II. The making of Penge
4. 'A wood for fifty hogs of pannage': Penge to the eighteenth century
5. 'A very valuable parcel of land': The enclosure of Penge Common
6. 'Speculations of a profitable traffic': The Croydon Canal
7. 'The crowning work': The railways
8. 'Opulent residents with elegant mansions': An early Victorian suburb
9. 'The wonderful building on the Penge Hills': The Crystal Palace
10. 'A waste of modern tenements': Life in Penge in the late nineteenth century
11. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index