Great. Britain overachieving yet again.

Back in Time West London The Franco-British Exhibition at the White City opened on this day in 1908.

Shepherds Bush tube and the old grand entrance to the White City Exhibition site

'Hello. Is that the Lost Property Office?'
'Yes'
'I don't suppose you've had a porcupine puffer fish handed in? I left it on the 5 45 train from Farnborough into Waterloo.'
'It's your lucky day sir.'
(Image taken in 1899 inside the Lost Property Office at Waterloo Station)

Who steals a block of showers? Not like you can flog it in the pub.

Classy Holborn

Don’t know about this - kind of like to be in places where I can’t be reached by a phone signal. And don’t want to hear other peoples conversations either when I’m stuffed into a metal tube.

Tree eating a gravestone. Now that's sinister...

North End House, on Fitzjames Avenue, West Kensington in 1935. Best & Cheapest Flats in Town.

The West Kensington tree eating an Edwardian postbox for supper…

We are open 12-4pm today! Come and view some Chinese and Japanese treasures. Could there be something for you? Estimates are £60-12,000. Highlights in the sale are mentioned here in Antique Collecting antique-collecting.co.uk/2024/05/09/chi…

East Acton shops on the Old Oak Estate, 1920s

Friars Place Lane, 1922, Acton.

I like books with paper pages, music plucked from wire & wood, paints that stain & splatter. It bores me to see human creation shrunk to a shiny slither of a screen. As Orwell said, ‘The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.’

Whitehall Gardens, Acton in 1905

Acton, 1794

Engineers will resume final stabilisation works on the Grade II* listed Hammersmith Bridge on Tuesday 28 May.

Cyclists will still be able to cross by walking their bikes across. Works are set to finish by end of 2024.

Read more: lbhf.gov.uk/news/2024/05/s…

Hatfield Road, Acton