Vanished City takes us to ten areas, well-known in their day,which have disappea
red from the A-Z. Each chapter tells the stories of places once known to every L
ondoner, including the most feared neighbourhood in the Western world, London's
first Olympic Park, its first port, the original Grub Street, a high society spa
resort, an occult square, a landscape of ancient, mythical kings, a notorious s
lum, and the streets stalked by the first London serial killer.
