Aldwych Collection

The Aldwych, London - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Aldwych Tube Station
The exterior of ALDWYCH STATION, on the Piccadilly Line, faced with the distinctive red ceramic tiles employed at the time

A Member of Tattersall s
A scene from the play A Member of Tattersall s, by Captain H.S.Browning, which opened at the Whitney Theatre (now the Novello Theatre, Aldwych, London) on 28 February 1912

Bush House / Aldwych 1926
BBC Bush House in the Aldwych Date: 1926

Waldorf Hotel London
Pigeons eye view of the WALDORF HOTEL, Aldwych, soon after its opening in 1908. It has 310 bedrooms and a Palm Court

Winifred Shotter (1904 - 1996), English actress of the 1930s, mainly in Aldwych farces

Alwych / Gaiety Theatre
Aldwych, with the Gaiety Theatre

Aldwych Lonon aerial view - late Victorian period

Aerial view, Aldwych, London

Ram Gopal and Maya Rani
Indian dancers Ram Gopal (1912-2003) and Maya Rani, promoting performances at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Date: circa 1939

Ben Travers farce scene, theatrical action photograph. With description, More Dangerous than Leg Theory; Gussie Pogson (Robertson Hare) and Dandy Stratton (Ralph Lynn), Test Match cricketers

Robertson Hare, actor, character portrait in glasses and cricket cap. John Robertson Hare, OBE (1891-1979) actor who established his career in the Aldwych farces

Photograph taken by the corner of the Strand and the Aldwych. Showing Inveresk House, (on the left), formerly known as Borthwick House when it held the offices of the Morning Post, became, in 1928

Bush House, Kingsway, London. Date: circa 1910s

General Strike - Policeman riding with volunteer bus drivers. The barbed wire on the bonnet is to stop protestors damaging the engine. The strike lasted 9 days between 4th and 12th May, 1926

Wych Street and Holywell Street, London, destined to be demolished for the Holborn-Strand improvement scheme which was finally completed after the First World War

Ellaline Terriss as Peggy Quainton in The Gay Gordons
Ellaline Terriss as Peggy Quainton in the Edwardian musical comedy, The Gay Gordons, at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Date: 1907

Aerial view of the Aldwych and the Strand, London. Date: circa 1910

The Gaiety Theatre, London - located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand Date: 1930s

The Aldwych, London, with the Gaiety Theatre on the right. circa 1905

Eagle Hut dining saloon, YMCA, Aldwych, London, with letter designated tables. Date: circa 1919

ALWYCH / WALDORF HOTEL
Aldwych, with the Strand Theatre, the Waldorf Hotel and the Aldwych Theatre Date: circa 1907

Wych Street
Old houses in Wych Street. Wych Street was a street in London, roughly where Australia House now stands on Aldwych. It ran west from the church of St Clement Danes on the Strand to a point towards

NFS (London Region) Aldwych V1 bombing attack, WW2
The aftermath of a V1 flying bomb attack on the Air Ministry in the Aldwych, that killed 48 people

Webster & Waddington, theatre ticket agents, London
Webster & Waddington Ltd, theatre, opera and concert ticket agents, Regent Street, London, with posters advertising concerts and productions. Date: 1906

A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers (12 November 1886 18 December 1980). First produced at the Court Theatre in Liverpool, and at the Aldwych Theatre on 22nd July 1925

The Gaitety Theatre, Aldwych, Strand, London - The show running at the time of this image was Our Miss Gibbs. Now the site of the ME London Hotel, designed by Foster & Partners. Date: 1909

Steel Frame of Building
The steel frame used in the construction of the Morning Post offices in the Strand, London; later a sixth floor was added

Thark by Ben Travers
Promotional postcard for Thark by Ben Travers. First produced at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, 27th June and Aldwych Theatre, 4th July 1927

Tatler cover - Maud Cressall as the Fairy Queen
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of actress Maud Cressall (1886-1962) in the role of the Fairy Queen for the play

The Golden Land of Fairy Tales
Promotional postcard for The Golden Land of Fairy Tales translated and adapted by A. H. Quaritich & Maurice Raye; music Heinrich Berte

Gaiety Theatre, London
Promotional postcard of the The Gaiety Theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was first established as the Strand Music Hall in 1864 on the former site of

Plunder by Ben Travers
Promotional postcard for Plunder by Ben Travers. First produced at Kings Theatre, Southsea, 18th June and Aldwych Theatre, 26th June 1928

Aldwych Constructed - London Date: 1906

Article on opening of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, 1917
Article in The Graphic, written by Margaret Chute, reporting on the opening of the Eagle YMCA Hut in Aldwych, London, which opened 3rd September 1917

Christmas Day at the Aldwych YMCA Rest Hut, WW1
Soldiers and sailors enjoying some lively entertainment at the busy Aldwych Rest Hut, Christmas 1916. Gifts of pipes, tobacco

The Eagle hut disturbance, 1919
Soldiers, sailors and civilians retiring from Bow Street police station following a riot where a crowd of around 1000 had protested at the arrest of two American soldiers

Eagle Hut YMCA in London, WW1
A general view of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London. The YMCA supplied British servicemen away from home in the UK and overseas with a place to eat, drink, relax, and write letters home

A night view of Inveresk House, home of the Great Eight
The home of the Illustrated Weeklies - a night view of Inveresk House in the Strand on the corner of Aldwych and facing towards Wellington Street, London

Diagrammatic view of home of Great Eight
Interior wonders of Inveresk House in the Strand, London, the new home of the Great Eight, containing the offices of the Illustrated London News, Sketch, Sphere, Tatler, Graphic, Bystander

Opening of Kingsway and Aldwych, London, by King Edward VII, on 18 October 1905, with an archway provided by the London Fire Brigade

Flagging his home town at the Eagle Hut, WW1
An American sailor sticks a flag into a huge map adorning the wall of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London, in order so he may meet other American soldiers and sailors from the same area

The Eagle hut in Aldwych, WW1
Exterior and interior views of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London. The YMCA supplied British servicemen away from home in the UK and overseas with a place to eat, drink, relax, and write letters home

King George V visits the Eagle Hut, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary inspect a guard of honour of American soldiers at the Eagle Hut in Aldwych in July 1918 in honour of Independence Day

Belgian soldiers wait for railway passes, WW1
Belgian Army troops, on leave in London, wait at Aldwych for railway passes to visit their refugee families. As many men who were granted leave from the front had relatives in England

At the Eagle Hut by Helen McKie
Sketches of members of the American Army and Navy enjoying the comforts of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London. The YMCA supplied British servicemen away from home in the UK

London bus during the General Strike, Route 1, destined for Kensington Church, the Aldwych and Notting Hill Gate. Alongside the driver, on the outside of the vehicle

A coloured aerial view of Aldwych London
A coloured aerial view of Aldwych, London. A Simmonds view

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