![]() Oh and if the text seems a bit slight this week, my apologies. ![]() The one thing that was true about Earls Court then was that many people came there and moved on just as quickly. ![]() Do you kn ow any of the people in these pictures? The late 70s and early 80s don’t seem all that long ago to me. I was intending something quite different this week but that is going to take a little longer and lots of people seemed to like Selwyn’s look at Shepherd’s Bush so I moved this post forward. I expect people were more relaxed about that in 1979. I think someone spotted him taking the picture. Selwyn lived in an upper floor flat and had access to the roof, so he could take pictures like this:Ī similar view a few years later in 1984: The pre-occupations of the the shopfronts – food, flats and videos. Earls Court had a reputation for being a bit seedy, but also very lively. Arguably the end of what some writers have called the long 70s. These are also about the individuals on the sreets. These are unlike many of his other pictures which are purely about the buildings. A typical day in early summer, the people heading towards and away from the Earls Court Road. Looking down Hogarth Road and Hogarth Place in May 1984. He devoted a lot of time to recording building work, details of the walls and roofs and pictures of the streets nearby from many angles. I hadn’t realised that this was the area our wandering surveyor Bernard Selwyn called home. So I know that bit of Hogarth Road and Hogarth Place quite well. (They only go one way on the southern section of the Earls Court Road). I never fancy going all the way to Warwick Road to get the bus to the High Street. I’ve done it plenty of times to get from Brompton Library back to Kensington Library. If you’re walking, that’s the quickest way. Cross the Cromwell Road and Marloes Road will take you to Wright’s Lane and ultimately to Kensington High Street. Carry on walking and you’ll find a pedestrian way through to Cromwell Road, coming out near the Cromwell/Bupa Hospital. You’ll come to an alley called Hogarth Place. Walk up it away from the station and veer left. Hogarth Road is opposite Earls Court Station.
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