Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1902
This is a F. Hartmann Real Glossy series postcard printed and colourised in Saxony, it shows Piccadilly Circus looking northwest towards Glasshouse Street. The Company produced postcards for a very short time, from 1902 until 1907 and I think that the bus shown is one of the earliest LGOC motor buses introduced in 1902. The German colourists have been a bit wayward in their colourisation but the advertisement on the side of the bus clearly shows that the “Ouida” play, “Under Two Flags” is running somewhere in London. In September the play was on at the Coronet Theatre in the New Kent Road, South London and played in suburban London theatres and provincial theatres right up to the first world war, its only West End run was at the Lyceum in the last two months of 1913. The play was based on the novel by Louise de la Ramée who was known as “Ouida”; it was a story about love and the French Foreign Legion. The advertisement for “Mellins Emulsion” referred to a Tonic food containing Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites designed for “delicate children and weakly adults”. Their factory was in Stafford Street, Peckham, S.E.15.
Piccadilly Circus: 1902
This is a F. Hartmann Real Glossy series postcard printed and colourised in Saxony, it shows Piccadilly Circus looking northwest towards Glasshouse Street. The Company produced postcards for a very short time, from 1902 until 1907 and I think that the bus shown is one of the earliest LGOC motor buses introduced in 1902. The German colourists have been a bit wayward in their colourisation but the advertisement on the side of the bus clearly shows that the “Ouida” play, “Under Two Flags” is running somewhere in London. In September the play was on at the Coronet Theatre in the New Kent Road, South London and played in suburban London theatres and provincial theatres right up to the first world war, its only West End run was at the Lyceum in the last two months of 1913. The play was based on the novel by Louise de la Ramée who was known as “Ouida”; it was a story about love and the French Foreign Legion. The advertisement for “Mellins Emulsion” referred to a Tonic food containing Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites designed for “delicate children and weakly adults”. Their factory was in Stafford Street, Peckham, S.E.15.