Notting Hill Gate reconstruction

Notting Hill Gate reconstructionWatercolour on paper. Notting Hill Gate reconstruction from the junction of Pembridge Road and Notting Hill Gate. Three cranes tower above the Campden Hill tower block site. On the opposite side of the road a man waits outside the Devonshire Arms pub. Buildings on Pembridge Villas and Kensington Park Road are in view.

The coronation went ahead in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953

and the crowds that flocked to them

The book also features chapters on London's public

West Drive Battersea Park in the North East

Measurements/duration:H 173 mm

Though his plan was never built

He worked with five men to survey the ruins

showing left to right: part of Westminster Bridge

The newly centralised Bank of England was the largest and most powerful financial undertaking in the City of London

had been a street photographer for 50 years when Henry Grant took this photo

'Street Life in London' with text written by Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith

the Tower of London in the South East and the Thames in the South West