Iain Sinclair - London Orbital

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London Orbital
Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop — keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' — he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before.
'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English'John Lanchester, 'A magnum opus, my book of the year. I urge you to read it. In fact, if you're a Londoner and haven't read it by the end of next year, I suggest you leave'Will Self, 'A journey into the heart of darkness and a fascinating snapshot of who we are, lit by Sinclair's vivid prose. I'm sure it will be read fifty years from now'J. G. Ballard, Iain Sinclair is the author of
(winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award);
(with Rachel Lichtenstein);
and
. He is also the editor of
.

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Mann, Thomas, 468

Manning, Mark, 58

The Manor Hospital, Epsom, 338, 342, 349

Mar Dyke, 495, 515

Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 41

Mardyke Path, 513

Marker, Chris, 427

Markfield Recreation Ground, South Tottenham, 545

Marks, Ginger, 496

Marsh Lane, Dartford, 463–4

Marshal, William, Earl of Pembroke, 209

Marshgate Recreation Ground, 53

Marx, Karl, 397

Mason, John, 153

Matthews, Emma, 490

Maxwell, Robert, 391

Mayor Treloar’s College, 125

Meacher, Michael, 62–3

Medvedev, Zhores, 115

Mee, Arthur, 405–6, 406, 428

Meenfield Wood, 423

Mendelsohn, Erich, 278

Meredith, George, 329

meridian line, 37, 126–7

Merstham, 370, 371–2, 373–4

Message, Reuben, 463

Metropolitan Asylums Board, 460

Metropolitan Water Board, 95

Meux, Sir Henry, 89

Meux, Lady Valerie, 99

Middlesex Filter Beds, 54, 56

Mile End New Town, 493

Mill Hill, 103, 104, 105–6, 113

Millennium Dome, 3, 6, 17, 29, 34, 81, 200, 265, 469, 541, 546, 547, 549–51

Millennium Eve, 17–26, 541–51

Mills, Sir John, 193

Milton, John, 188

Mitchell, Adrian, 444

Mitchell, Frank, 496

Mitchell, Margaret, 528

Monbiot, George, 349

Monck, George, Duke of Albemarle, 89

Monet, Claude, 397, 398

Montagu, Venetia, 398

Moorcock, Michael, 25, 208, 214–5, 542

Moore, Alan, 107, 246, 522

Morant’s Court Farm, 407

Morecambe, Eric, 190, 193

Morton, Andrew, 185–6

Moseley, Billy, 55

Mosquito Chamber, 330–1

Mother London (Moorcock), 208

Mottram, Professor Eric, 225, 226

Mouth & Foot Painting Artists’ Gallery, Selborne 120

multi-storey car parks, 169–70

Museo Bicknell, Bordighera, 383

My Manor (Richardson), 357

Myddelton, Sir Hugh, 93–4, 96

Myddelton House, 14, 91, 96–7, 100, 101, 102

Myers, William Joseph, 153

Myriorama, 162

Nairn, Ian, 489

Napsbury Hospital, 163, 166, 179

Nathan, Sir Frederick, 41

National Association for Mental Health, 351

National Institute for Medical Research Mill Hill, 103, 106, 113–5, 118, 519, 544

National Trust, 318

Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (White), 119

Near Underriver (Palmer), 422

Nemon, Oscar, 393

Neumann, Eric, 204

New Eltham, 82

New Labour

Ballard on, 267

countryside policy, 86

mental health policy, 179, 352

New River, 93–6

Newman, Kim, 486

Newman, Nanette, 194

Newmarket, 346

Nicholson, William, 396

Nicholson’s Gin Distillery, 49

Nicklaus, Jack, 371

Nieuwkoop, Pieter 114

Night and the City (Kersh), 207

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (film), 201–2, 203

Noak Hill, 519, 522

Nonsuch Palace, 439

North Circular Road, 60

North Downs, 369

Northern Sewage Outflow, 48, 49

Northfleet, 473

Noye, Kenneth, 12–13, 372, 497, 507

Nuttall, Jeff, 225

Oakley, Chris, 148

O’Connell, Sanjida, 380

Octagon (property developers), 288, 290, 291

Oddie, Bill, 500

Offa, 409

Old Ford Lock, 51

Olson, Charles, 157

O’Mahoney, Bernard, 498–9, 499, 500–2, 503, 503–5, 506–8

The Origins and History of Consciousness (Neumann), 204

Otford, 404, 408–9, 410, 411

Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 183–4

Ove Arup and Partners, 253

Packer, Kerry, 371

Painshill Park, 318–24

Painting as a Pastime (Churchill), 401

Paleologou, Effie, 104, 106, 116, 201, 511

Palmer, Samuel, vii, 309, 320, 322–3, 376, 399–400, 401, 404–5, 407–8, 410, 414–5, 416–22, 425, 468

Paracelsus, 255

Parker, Ian, 274

Parker Bowles, Andrew, 102

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 412

Passingford Bridge, 519, 523

Passingford Mill, 523

Paxman, Jeremy, vii

Payne, Stewart, 70

Peake, Mervyn, 287

Pearson, John, 348

Pedder, Beth, 71–75

Penton Mound, Islington, 94

Pepler, G.L., 85

Pepys, Samuel, 332

Perec, Georges, 262

Persia, Shah of, 491

Petit, Chris, 5, 6, 50, 66, 71, 143–4, 367, 468, 470, 472–3, 474, 476

Peugeot 505s, illegal export to Zambia, 505–6

Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus, 521

Pfizer, Walton Oaks, 367–8

pheasants, killed on roads, 379–80

Pickett’s Lock, 63–6

Pilgrims Way, 367, 368, 369, 375, 378, 380–1, 387, 403, 408

Pinochet, General Augusto, 274–7

Pinter, Harold, 443

Piper, John, 91

Pitt-Rivers, General Augustus, 529

Planter and Visiting Agent in Ceylon (Arthur Sinclair), 387

Plath, Sylvia, 170–1

Plessy Thorn Electronics, 524

The Poetics of Space (Bachelard), 515

Pollution

Enfield Lock, 70–74

London Waste Ltd, Edmonton, 61, 63, 63–4, 74

Ponders End, 40–41, 66, 542, 544

Pope, Alexander, 319, 322

Pope, Sir Thomas, 93

Porters Park, Shenley, 153–4, 158

Potter, Jennifer, 322

Potters Bar, 138, 139, 140–4, 171

Powell, Enoch, 351

Powell, Michael, 4

Power, Anne, 343

Prehistoric London: Its Mounds and Circles (Gordon), 144

Prescott Channel, 51

Procter, John, 439

Proctor & Gamble factory, Thurrock, 484

The Profession of Violence (Pearson), 348

The Prospect (Palmer), 323

Prosser, George Frederick, 319, 320

Pugin, E.W. 287

Purfleet, 10, 46, 201, 463, 487–9, 491, 493

Quantum Cloud (Gormley), 549

Quebec House, Westerham, 392, 394–5

Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Dartford, 5, 6, 11, 31–2, 46, 252, 453, 455, 463, 464, 467, 473, 480, 491–2, 496, 510

racehorses, 360

The Raging Moon (film), 194

Rainham Marshes, 45, 500, 502

Raisman, Geoff, 114

Rammey Marsh, 75

Rank, J. Arthur, 215–6

Ranter (MacSweeney), 227

Ranters, 306, 307

Raphael, Cecil Frank, 154

Raquel’s nightclub, Basildon, 498–9, 500, 507

Raynsford, Nick, 63–4

Redway, Father, 326

Reedbeds, Shoreham, 416

Reigate, 369

Relations (Renchi), 281

‘Renchi’ see Bicknell, Laurence

Rendezvous (café), 390

Repton, Humphry, 167, 168

Repton Park, 166–7, 168, 340

The Resurrection (Spencer), 486

Rettenden, 497–8, 498, 508

Re-Visioning the Earth (Devereux), 122

Reynolds, Bruce, 356

Richard, Cliff, 251, 302

Richards, Keith, 451

Richardson, Charlie, 356–7

Richardson, Eddie, 355, 357

Richmond, George, 404–5, 407, 414, 417, 421

Ricketts, Dr, 460

Ridley, Nicholas, 277

ring roads, origin, 4

The Risk of Being Alive (Francis), 254

Ritblat, Conrad, 358

River Improvement Acts (1424 and 1430), 39

Robbery (film), 356

Roberts, David, 384

Roberts, Harry, 520–1

Robertson, Howard, 282

Robeson, Paul, 266

Robins, William ‘Budgie’, 314

Robinson, William, 91

Robinson in Space (film), 304–5

Roding Valley, 523, 524

Rodinsky, David, 133, 167, 206, 338–40 343, 348, 350, 531–2

Rodinsky’s Room (Lichtenstein and Sinclair), 472

Rogers, Richard, 72, 343

Rogers of Riverside, Lord, 72, 343

Rolfe, Craig, 499

Rooks Hill, 422

Rose, Emery, 397

Rosebery, Lord, 346

Rossen, Robert, 356

Rotherhithe, 462

Rowe, Raphael, 314

Roy, General, 234

Royal Alexandra and Albert School, 370

Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, 38, 127–30, 330

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