Scandal at Dolphin Square

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Books
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20.00
book_author_name: 
Simon Danczuk
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
The History Press Ltd
published_date: 
24/02/2022
isbn: 
9780750997140
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Books > History > Historical events & topics > Social & cultural history
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Simon Danczuk|Hardback|The History Press Ltd|24/02/2022
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9780750997140
Book Description: 
Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of the country's most notorious addresses; a place where the private lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best part of a century.This is the story of the Square and its people, an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life characters who have borne witness to, and played pivotal roles in, some of the most scandalous episodes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Oswald Mosley and the Carry On gang to allegations of systematic sexual abuse, it is a saga replete with mysterious deaths, exploitation, espionage, illicit love affairs and glamour, shining a light on the changing nature of British politics and society in the modern age.

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