The Japan British Exhibition in White City featured an extensive recreation of a Japanese landscape with buildings. The big rock like structures were part of that and included a roller coaster that ran through the fake mountains.

A fascinating view across White City in 1910 when the Japan British Exhibition was showing. See the tower of St Charles Hospital in the distance.

A near perfect lead cloth seal that would have been attached to a length of woollen cloth sometime around the end of the 16th century, to prove it was of good quality and that the necessary taxes had been paid.
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When I reported on people living in run down tower blocks in the 90s, they recalled loving them when new. What destroyed that was complete lack of maintenance of common areas, poor building security and design flaws like an underground car park for carless residents. Rich people…

Back in Time West London Is this a colourised photo?
Surely the houses are built with a more yellow brick.
Here is a photo of the gardens gifted to the council by the Gunter estate following the Second World War.
They certainly were grand then.

Gunterstone Road in West Kensington. Two builders William Gibbs &John Flew picked the area for a development called West Kensington estate, on land that had belonged to confectioner James Gunter (from Gunterstone, or Tregunter, near Brecon).

Happy city ? Modern Victoria in central London…. An unstructured jumble of lumps and knives

The National Trust are running one of the best communications strategies I've ever seen to counter an Astro-turf far right assault - ethical PR courses will use this to teach

Back in Time West London My great-grandparents worked in the Maypole - lived in North Hyde, Heston and walked over the canal to the factory every day. My Great-Grandfather is listed as an 'incapacitated margerine blender' in the 1939 Register

The Maypole Institute in Southall on Margarine Road (later Merrick Rd) was built in 1910 as a recreation centre for the workers of the Danish firm, Otto Monsted & Co, a margarine manufacturer and owner of the Maypole Dairy.  Employees paid 6d (2.5p) a month as a subscription.

Southall Spread.
The Maypole Dairy bought Otto Monsted’s margarine factory in 1915. The factory in Southall was the world's largest margarine factory - covering 22,500 square yards, employing 650 people, churning out 700 tons of margarine a week.

Meet the starched white whipping (cream) boys of the Maypole Dairy on King Street, Hammersmith c 1917. 🥛

Meet the young artist who has made it their mission to draw London's pubs. ✍️

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#MISSING | We are appealing for information to locate Kacem from Kensington and Chelsea. He was last seen at around 10am on 27th of April. Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting 2988 of the 28th of April.

The public health response in the United States to the danger posed by avian flu. Is anything similar being considered in the UK I wonder…

Lost London Types : from a series of postcards that captured the people working on the city’s streets a century ago…First off, the Messenger Boys.
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