Advertisement hoarding in Camden Street
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Advertisement hoarding in Camden Street
Advertisement hoarding in Camden Street
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SC_PHL_01_335_F2882 (Collage 106722)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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A view of an advertisement hoarding in Camden Street at the junction with Camden Road, Camden Town. Products advertised include Bovril beef drink, Sanizal disinfectant, Watney's beer, Senior's fish and meat pastes, Rowntree's cocoa, Boots pharmacy and Victory hairdressing salons. The largest panel is for the Stoll Theatre in Kingsway where "For Crying Out Loud" starring Will Hay and Nervo & Knox was being presented by Jack Hylton. Posters also advertise venereal disease clinics with the message "clean living is the real safeguard", "Cut your gas and electricity - they both use coal" and one for the National Party featuring an image of Sir Winston Churchill but without his name and the message "Help him finish the job". In the election on 5 July 1945, Churchill's caretaker government was defeated and the Labour Party under Clement Atlee won a landslide. The name of the billposting company, Partington's, also appears. A traffic light is also visible. The hoarding is affixed to the side elevation of 62 Camden Road. It still exists, the elevation presenting 11 blank windows and one opening window. The two-storey villas to the left have been rebuilt as larger properties but at a similar height and appearance. Dating from the early nineteenth century, numbers 18-62 Camden Street were Grade II listed in 1974, listing number 1272437.
A view of an advertisement hoarding in Camden Street at the junction with Camden Road, Camden Town. Products advertised include Bovril beef drink, Sanizal disinfectant, Watney's beer, Senior's fish and meat pastes, Rowntree's cocoa, Boots pharmacy and Victory hairdressing salons. The largest panel is for the Stoll Theatre in Kingsway where "For Crying Out Loud" starring Will Hay and Nervo & Knox was being presented by Jack Hylton. Posters also advertise venereal disease clinics with the message "clean living is the real safeguard", "Cut your gas and electricity - they both use coal" and one for the National Party featuring an image of Sir Winston Churchill but without his name and the message "Help him finish the job". In the election on 5 July 1945, Churchill's caretaker government was defeated and the Labour Party under Clement Atlee won a landslide. The name of the billposting company, Partington's, also appears. A traffic light is also visible. The hoarding is affixed to the side elevation of 62 Camden Road. It still exists, the elevation presenting 11 blank windows and one opening window. The two-storey villas to the left have been rebuilt as larger properties but at a similar height and appearance. Dating from the early nineteenth century, numbers 18-62 Camden Street were Grade II listed in 1974, listing number 1272437.
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