This view shows 22-34 Hill Street, a terrace of nineteenth-century shop buildings on the east side of the street in the Central Richmond conservation area of Richmond-upon-Thames. All are listed locally as Buildings of Townscape Merit. Known collectively as Castle Terrace, it comprises mostly three-storey shop buildings, but number 34 is four-storey with a gable above, having been The Talbot Tap public house for much of the nineteenth century on a site next to the Talbot Hotel and livery stables that were replaced by the existing Odeon Cinema, shops, and apartments during the 1930s. Shops shown include CROWN WALLPAPERS, TOUCH OF CLASS, POSNERS, its window still showing its closing down sale, K SHOE SHOP, WIMPY BAR, LASKYS, PIZZA LAND, and a Chinese restaurant partly hidden by a traffic direction sign. A few shoppers are seen browsing and walking by, while a BMC 1800 and a Morris Marina approach the junction with Bridge Street.
