{"id":12149,"date":"2021-05-22T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:59:46","slug":"hammersmith-to-holland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12149","title":{"rendered":"Hammersmith to Holland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\n\"Brook<\/a>\n<\/div>
Brook Green, Hammersmith, Hammersmith & Fulham, 1988<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Helpfully a street sign and a number inform me that this is 180 Shepherds Bush Rd, at the western edge of Brook Green. The road at one time used to wander around here but long ago traffic was routed straight through the grassy space, with both new and old road remaining as Shepherds Bush Road. There are no properties on the new section of the road, just a bus stop, traffic signs and traffic lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without the information on the photo it would be hard to place this picture, as nothing visible remains of this part of the factory which housed Express Lifts and was I think part of the large Osram works which had began making carbon lamps here in 1881. It went on to produce many other types of lamps until around 1955, continuing only to produce argon and electronic valves until 1988 and was demolished the same year, with only its tower with the famous Osram Dome elsewhere on the site being saved, incorporated into the Tesco Superstore that took its place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Sinclair<\/a>\n<\/div>
Sinclair Rd, Hammersmith, Hammersmith & Fulham, 198<\/em>8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can still find this pair of houses on Sinclair Rd, part of one of many conservation areas in Hammersmith & Fulham. There are a number of houses with impressive paired porches on the street, substantial four storey houses dating from around 1880. This pair is one of relatively few to have retained the stucco urns under the porticos, and this is a particularly impressive example with slender columns and capitals, but I think the real attraction for me was the incredibly morose bearded and moustached crowned head at the base of a finial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Springvale<\/a>\n<\/div>
Springvale Terrace, Hammersmith, Hammersmith & Fulham, 1988<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the same conservation area as Sinclair Rd is a small section of very different housing. This small block which contained around 24 late Victorian terraced houses with a small Radiator Factory at its north end had been replaced by these modern buildings by 1988. The picture is taken from the road at the south side of this small estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"St<\/a>\n<\/div>
St John the Baptist, Church, Holland Rd, Holland Park, Kensington & Chelsea, 1988<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Crossing the railway at the bridge on Addison Gardens took me from Hammersmith & Fulham into the Holland Park area of Kensington & Chelsea and St John the Baptist Church in Holland Rd, a remarkably exuberant Grade I listed building by the distinguished Victorian church architect James Brook, “cathedral-like in scale and ambition, combining Brooks’s devotion to severe early Gothic models with a degree of material opulence not seen in his better-known East End churches”. Begun in 1872 it was completed in stages when the parish had the money and only finished after Brook’s death with finishing touches (perhaps unfortunate) by his successor John Standen Adkins in 1910.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well-illustrated feature on the history of the church on the church web site<\/a> states “St John\u2019s is a distinguished and integrated time-capsule of the Anglo-Catholic movement. It is regularly in use for that traditional form of worship today.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Holland<\/a>\n<\/div>
15 Holland Park Gardens, Holland Park, Kensington & Chelsea, 1988<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The London School of English is still in this imposing building in Holland Park Gardens. Perhaps surprising I avoided the wide sweep of steps leading up to its door, probably in order to emphasise the nest of balloons tied to its railings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Addisland<\/a>\n<\/div>
Addisland Court, Holland Villas Road, Holland Park, Kensington & Chelsea, 1988 88-1a-11<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Addisland Court is a prestigious block of flats that screams 1930s Art Deco and its site design also very much reflects the golden age of motoring (when it was only for the rich.) A three bedroom flat here has an estimated value of around \u00a32million. It was apparently used as a location in a couple of episodes of a TV series of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. It was built in 1936, designed by William Bryce Binnie<\/a> whose other works include the East Stand at Arsenal’s old Highbury ground and who after distinguished war service had been assistant architect at the Imperial War Graves Commission for which he designed a number of memorials in France and Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helpfully a street sign and a number inform me that this is 180 Shepherds Bush Rd, at the western edge of Brook Green. The road at one time used to wander around here but long ago traffic was routed straight through the grassy space, with both new and old road remaining as Shepherds Bush Road. … Continue reading Hammersmith to Holland Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[4372,4367,4370,4373,4366,1885,4371,3170,4365,4369,2729,1845,998,17,4368],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-addisland-court","tag-addison-ward","tag-anglo-catholic","tag-art-deco","tag-brook-green","tag-church","tag-crucifix","tag-factory","tag-hammersmith","tag-hammersmith-fulham","tag-holland-park","tag-houses","tag-kensington-chelsea","tag-london","tag-osram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}