Bedford Park, West London, Southfields Road c1911

Bedford Park, West London, Southfields Road circa 1911. Postcard by Young & Co of Teddington. Click the postcard to enlarge.

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Battersea, South London, Grayshott Road c1914

Battersea, South London, Grayshott Road c1914. This part of Grayshott Road was redeveloped in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The top of Grayshott Road was renamed Acanthus Road, a name that was previously used for a road 100 yards to the right that was also demolished for redevelopment. Grayshott Road now starts at number 45. The men and boys with their milk carts stand outside 41 Grayshott Road, the premises of James Bradbury, Dairyman.
Postcard by W. H. Applebee. Click the postcard to enlarge.
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Twickenham, Middlesex, York Street, 1913

Twickenham, Middlesex, York Street, 1913. In this postcard of York Street, Twickenham we can see a newspaperboy with a sign that proclaims 'Appalling Colliery Disaster in Wales'. Although there were many coal mining disasters in Wales at the turn of the last century, this one probably refers to the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster on 14th of October 1913, the worst of the lot. 439 miners lost their lives in an explosion underground. York Street was built at the turn of the twentieth century to replace Church Street as the main road to Richmond. The buildings on the left were completed in 1906. Sydney Chidley Pianos originally occupied the premises on the far left, but only lasted a few years and then Leslie Warner Shoes were there for many years after that. The premises is now that of HSBC Bank.
Postcard by W. H. Applebee of Ashford. Click the postcard to enlarge. For more old photographs visit the Sepia Saturday blog.

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