Another bit of interesting architecture falls to the wrecker’s ball. It was a vaguely Art Deco garage ( a miniature Hoover building) although it has been empty for a few years as a developer bought up the whole block.
This is what it’s going to be now.
Another bland development comprising residential, retail and parking for six cars. Disingenuously the developer has appended another computer generated image looking north from Frank Banfield Park towards the new block of blandness. It implies the park is part of the development; it isn’t. Hammersmith will soon be indistinguishable from Croydon, not a compliment.
My downcast spirits were restored after walking up the river on the north bank past mostly fine old buildings on Lower and Upper Mall to the Black Lion at the east end of Chiswick Mall for lunch after visiting Miss May’s grave.
Meanwhile the hotel development is in stasis and Freddie’s Flowers are brightening up the kitchen, although I’m no Constance Spry.
That’s a bit flattering about the old garage but the new building is so depressingly grim, and utterly lamentable. Croydon is quite right. We are badly governed!
We saw your Black Lion lunch companion Wednesday evening at the two Shaw short plays in the Orange Tree Richmond! Pleased to see that your pretty flowers are scented with stocks and pink roses.?