Paperbacks: Historic London, by Stephen Inwood

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"A house Lord Astor used to own/ The style is old – Elizabethan/ But who's that on the mobile phone?" Though you might want to skip his rhyming quizzes (the answer is carved cherubs near Temple), Inwood's guide will open the eyes of residents and visitors to the capital's curiosities.

Did you know that the Mason's Arms on Seymour Place was the last stop for the condemned to take a drink before Tyburn? Considering the author's evident love of rhyme, it is odd that Inwood's account of the Grosvenor Gallery on Bond Street does not include WS Gilbert's line about "greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery".

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