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Leafy artists' suburb: a tile-hung detached house on Rupert Road, Bedford Park, by the architect Norman Shaw, 1879. Bedford Park is a suburban development in Chiswick, London, begun in 1875 under the direction of Jonathan Carr, with many large houses in British Queen Anne Revival style by Norman Shaw and other leading Victorian era architects including Edward William Godwin, Edward John May ...
Painting of Bedford Park's Chiswick School of Art, Stores and Tabard Inn, with a large house on the right, by Thomas Erat Harrison, 1882. The architecture of Bedford Park in Chiswick, West London, is characterised largely by Queen Anne Revival style, meaning an eclectic mixture of English and Flemish house styles from the 17th and 18th centuries, with elements of many other styles featuring in ...
'Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. the Healthiest Place in the World': coloured lithograph by Frederick Hamilton Jackson, c. 1882. The developer of the Bedford Park estate, Jonathan Carr, commissioned the artist F. Hamilton Jackson to create publicity images including an "iconic" one of the church, which had not even been completed at the time. [7]
The Tabard. The block of three buildings containing The Tabard public house (formerly the Tabard Inn) is a Grade II* listed structure in Chiswick, London.The block, with a row of seven gables in its roof, was designed by Norman Shaw in 1880 as part of the community focus of the Bedford Park garden suburb.
Bedford College was founded in London in 1849 as the first higher education college for women in the United Kingdom. In 1900, it became a constituent of the University of London . Having played a leading role in the advancement of women in higher education and public life in general, it became fully coeducational (i.e. open to men) in the 1960s.
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of its urban area (as defined by the Office for National Statistics), including Kempston and Biddenham, was 106,940. Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district.
Painting of Carr's large property in Bedford Park, Tower House (centre), by Manfred Trautschold, 1882 [6] [7]. It is popularly supposed that the Bedford Park development brought Carr to bankruptcy, but this is not supported by the evidence: he extended the estate with an extra 89 acres, took out a £200,000 mortgage on it, and in 1881 sold all of it to a new company, Bedford Park Ltd, which he ...
Chiswick (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ CHIZ-ik) [3] is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing.It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery.