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The aspect depicted is looking west towards the Green, with the Exhibition Centre entrance arch on the right (built for the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908 – the site now of the new Shepherd’s Bush station).

I enclose a postcard of the arch in its pomp, right. Apologies for the pedantry.

Anthony Vesely

Osterley Bookshop, Osterley