World's End combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic in this account of growing up in West London during the Cold War. Once a rundown part of Chelsea, the World's End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett and Bacon, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After the War, the area became a centre of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called 'Bomb Culture', resulting from the threat of nuclear annihilation. In the 1970s, the World's End was the centre of Punk Rock. The author witnessed much of this as a child and adolescent born and bought up in the area. He has lived long enough to see the World's End now bear the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque inequality. But this too will pass as worlds end. Book jacket.