title: The London Underground (Shire Library)
author:  Andrew Emmerson 
description: When he is not writing and broadcasting on the subject of today's high-tech wizardry, Andrew Emmerson enjoys discovering the history of the inventions which came before this, also restoring and reviving equipment based on these older technologies.
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  # [DEDICATION](../Text/9780062201607_Contents.xhtml#ded)
  
  
  
  
  
  **FOR LISA HASKELL AND ANN CHRIST,**
  
  
  
  
  
  **WHOSE KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY OVER THE YEARS HAVE HELPED  
  
  
  MAKE LONDON MY SECOND HOME**
  
  
  
  
  
  **AND FOR STEVE ULLATHORNE,**
  
  
  
  
  
  **WHO INSISTED I WRITE A BOOK ABOUT CRYSTAL PALACE**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # [MAP](../Text/9780062201607_Contents.xhtml#map)
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [PROLOGUE](../Text/9780062201607_Contents.xhtml#prl)
  
  
  
  
  
  _.  . .  Denmark Street is forever associated with music. Earning the nickname
  of London’s Tin Pan Alley in the 1920s, musicians have flocked to this
  renowned corner of Soho since its origins as a sheet music supplier in
  Victorian times._
  
  
  
  
  
  —www.covent-garden.co.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  It had been years since she’d been in an English church. Would the place be
  locked early on this miserable January evening? she wondered. Moved by a
  sudden impulse,