Back in Time West Londonさんのイラストまとめ

The Tower House on the Bedford park estate in Chiswick painted by Manfred Trautschold in 1882. Manfred (1854 - 1921) was the son of the German portrait painter Wilhelm Trautschold. Manfred moved to the US with his family and died in New York.

“I liked walking along the towing path of the Regent’s Canal and seeing London as it were from the wings in a theatre....Occasionally a cream coloured Regency house would cast its trembling reflection into the dark water of the canal…” (Algernon Newton)

The Egyptian Cafe, Greek Street. Soho. C 1910

@TheBrometheus This squirrel 🐿 tap dances like Astaire & plays jazz piano, due to our rigorous training routine. He also scratches messages to us in Sanskrit and helps the cat with his algebra homework. I’m not pushy but I know he would have underachieved in the state school system.

Aerial view of Hammersmith long before the flyover.

May 1901. A wonderful sequence of images of telephone cables being laid at London Bridge. (CCL : BT archive)

Warwickshire House on Gower Street was the staff quarters for unmarried women working at Bourne & Hollingsworth. It was nicknamed the virgins retreat. There was a ballroom, an art deco swimming pool, a snack bar, a writing room and a sick bay with a Harley Street doctor.

Hammersmith Bridge i̵n̵ ̵2̵0̵1̵9̵ in 1904.

One of my favourite pub photographs - the Havelock Tavern @HavelockTavern on Masbro Road, W14.

This image from the early twentieth century shows a Great Ormond Street Hospital patient in a cot sponsored by Punch Magazine @GOSHCharity