Leonard Bentley
Lower Regent Street
This is a Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard in their “Town and City” series which was phototyped in Holland and first published in December 1904, but the photograph is a little earlier circa 1902. The view is looking south in Lower Regent Street towards Waterloo Place and Pall Mall from Piccadilly Circus. The building on the left is part of Nash’s Quadrant and houses the ticket and booking offices of the great Railway companies and the company of Dr. Henry Lunn the founder of Sir. Henry Lunn travel which became Lunn Poly when it merged with the Polytechnic Touring Association in the early 1960s. On the first floor there is a Dental practice, The American Association of Painless Dentistry. There were a lot of Dental practices in the UK which used the word “American” and “Painless” in their names, even then the American way of Dentistry was something to be admired and emulated. The horse drawn van of Chibnall’s Bread has come a long way, their Bakery was in George Street, Croydon.
Lower Regent Street
This is a Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard in their “Town and City” series which was phototyped in Holland and first published in December 1904, but the photograph is a little earlier circa 1902. The view is looking south in Lower Regent Street towards Waterloo Place and Pall Mall from Piccadilly Circus. The building on the left is part of Nash’s Quadrant and houses the ticket and booking offices of the great Railway companies and the company of Dr. Henry Lunn the founder of Sir. Henry Lunn travel which became Lunn Poly when it merged with the Polytechnic Touring Association in the early 1960s. On the first floor there is a Dental practice, The American Association of Painless Dentistry. There were a lot of Dental practices in the UK which used the word “American” and “Painless” in their names, even then the American way of Dentistry was something to be admired and emulated. The horse drawn van of Chibnall’s Bread has come a long way, their Bakery was in George Street, Croydon.