Self-portrait

Self-portrait

04 May 2012

SNAPSHOTS OF WEST HAMPSTEAD

Fresh from its premiere at the Women’s Institute meeting at Brioche, a favoured café in the heart of West Hampstead, I post this slideshow which concentrates on what had been described by Pevsner as the ‘middle middle class’ houses of West Hampstead (we will have to compile another version with the middle-class houses, which have a tendency towards the upper, with their rather more grandiose frontages.)
 
The soundtrack is local too. ‘Broadhurst Garden Blues’ was recorded by George Chisholm and his swing group in 1937 at the Decca Studios in the old West Hampstead Town Hall.


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