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Tim Bradford. The Groundwater Diaries: Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London
THE GROUNDWATER DIARIES
TIM BRADFORD
Dedication
Contents
1. A Bloody Big River Runs Through It
2. Special-Brew River Visions (No Boating, No Swimming, No Fishing, No Cycling)
London Stories 1: The Dogpeople
3. Football, the Masons and the Military-Industrial Complex
London Stories 2: A Young Person’s Guide to House Prices
4. From Eel to Eternity: William Morris and the Saxon – Viking duopoly
London Stories 3: Going to the Dogs
5. Spa Wars
London Stories 4: The Secret Policeman’s Bar
6. Invisible Streams. London Stories 5: Triumph of the Wilf
7. The Pot and the Pendulum
London Stories 6: Catching Muggers, Starsky-and-Hutch Style
8. Can You Feel the Force?
London Stories 7: Our Man in a Panama Hat
9. Danish Punk Explosion Dream
London Stories 8: Suspicious Mind
10. Big Sky Over Norton Folgate
London Stories 9: Hidden Art Soundscapes in the Aura of Things
11: River of Punk
London Stories 10: The Secret Life of the Market Trader
12. Fred the Cat and the River of the Dead
13. Acton Baby!
London Stories 11: How to Fuck Your Knees Before You’re Fifty
14. The Suburban River Goddess at the Brent Cross Shopping Centre
London Stories 12: Swedish DIY Fascism
15. The Unbearable Shiteness of Being (in South London)
London Stories 13:30-Love in the Time of Henmania
16b. Sorry to Keep You
17. The Tim Team
18. Doing the Lambeth Walk
London Stories 14: Welcome to Shakespeare Country – Britain’s Heritage Industry
19. Bridge Over the River Peck
London Stories 15: A Night out at The Ministry of Sound
20. The Black Wicked Witch Knife and Fork in Old Ed’s Dinertown
London Stories 16: An Alternative Global Financial System Written on the Back of a Beermat
22. Up Shit Creek
London Stories 17: Dome Time
23. The Tao of Essex
London Stories 18: The Eighties were Shit But Free-Jazz Pool Was Great
24. Smoke on the Water
Rockin’ with the Rivers – the magazine for heavy metal fans of underground streams
25: Black Sewer, Crimson Cloud, Silver Fountain
Appendix. Flow rates
What is London?
London weather. Some Top London Buskers
Bullshit Detector Detector
The Etymologists of Bishopsgate Library
Further reading
Credits
Pubs that appear in the text
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Further praise for The Groundwater Diaries:
Other Works
Copyright
About the Publisher
