Buildings in Regent Street
Buildings in Regent Street
Record No
104672
Title
Buildings in Regent Street
Description
View of 302-326 Regent Street, Westminster, looking north towards Langham Place. In the foreground, 302-312 Regent Street, an office-shop block including 29-30 Margaret Street, built c1922 by T. S. Darbyshire and Fryer in classical style with Beaux Arts details; Grade II listed, listing number 1265229. The ground-floor unit is occupied by the Royal Air Force Careers Information Office. Further along, on the corner of Little Portland Street, the unit at numbers 310-312 is occupied by Quality Inn, a restaurant at this location since 1939. Across Little Portland Street, an office-shop block, c1924, designed by Sir Henry Tanner in classical style with Beaux Arts details; Grade II listed, listing number 1227724. Also in view, three Edwardian buildings in Margaret Street, from left to right, number 28 by Belcher & Joass, architects, G. Godson & Sons, builders, for art metal manufacturers Barkentin & Krall. The shop unit is occupied by religious bookseller A. R. Mowbray & Co., which remained at the premises until 2006. Adjacent, number 27 by Augustus E. Hughes & Son, architects, for H. Tatton Sykes, 1903-04. Then number 26, formerly Margaret Street Hospital for Consumption, by F. M. Elgood, architect and J. W. Falkner & Sons, builder, 1914-15. The hospital treated tuberculosis patients and was re-named St Pancras Chest Clinic in the 1950s and closed in the late 1960s. In this busy street scene, traffic going south is at traffic lights waiting for vehicles to cross into Margaret Street; a man in a van is looking out at the photographer. Vehicles in Margaret Street are passing an old-fashioned traffic light with finial; an elderly woman is waiting to cross the road.
Date of execution
1972
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_325_72_9345
London picture map location
Exact
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