Take a browse at the on-line collections at the Museum of London
Here you will find a selection of objects from the museums collections, organised according to borough. They aim to add more items, building up a comprehensive map of where objects were made, found or used in London. There is an interactive map listing items from each borough
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Here are one or two examples of the many hundreds
OIL, INK AND GOUACHE ON CARD
London Landscape
This painting is set in Brixton immediately after the Second World War. The artist wrote that he 'was fascinated by the window full of bills on the derelict shop front - it seemed to be blooming like a flower in such a drab setting. I came back the following morning about 6.30am and using the roof of my car as an easel, I worked on it until the place became too busy and finished it some time later from memory, which was refreshed by a number of visits. My last visit was an anti-climax, all the bills were gone and had given place to the usual vulgarity of a chromium plated shop front.'
Inside Woolworths Store, Kilburn High Road
Before the First World War branches of Woolworth's opened in Croydon, Peckham, Woolwich, Harlesden and Brixton. This branch, at 100-104 Kilburn High Road, was trading by the early 1920s. The shops were a huge success and the business thrived during the 1920s and 1930s. By 1950, there were a 762 Woolworth's stores in the U.K. boasting the popular slogan 'Nothing in these stores over sixpence'.
- Production Date:
1951-1975
