BehindTheScenesPublishing.com: HOLLAND PARK BEHIND THE SCENES (2014)

NEW TITLE 21 OCTOBER 2014

First Edition

Paperback
Illustrated
246 x 189 mm
144 pp
480g
ISBN 978-0-9556659-1-2

Price £19.99

Published by BehindTheScenesPublishing.Com

HOLLAND PARK BEHIND THE SCENES takes the reader back to the elegant days of the Edwardian era with a collection of more than two hundred photographs and postcard images of this much-loved area of London. Residents once again play an enjoyable role in the commentary: discover where Ezra Stilton, the Misses Stribling, John Fielder Hiss, William Smiles, Fred Foottet, Edgar Kettle, Mrs Missing, Annie Going and Henry Gonne, Mrs Whish, and Miss Cheere all lived or worked in Holland Park, a century ago. For today's residents, family historians, new visitors, and those nostalgic for days gone by.

Review: PICTURE POSTCARD MONTHLY DECEMBER 2014

“Holland Park Behind the Scenes (Hermione Cameron) not only provides the reader with a pictorial cornucopia of Edwardian views of this genteel part of London, it introduces them to the residents of the time! Ms Cameron, who was inspired to write the book by the late politician Tony Benn, has spent long hours researching the occupants of houses and premises featured on the 200+ postcards, acquired from fairs and online, that appear in her book. For anyone who has lived in the area, this is a massive bonus in a postcard nostalgia book. For the rest of us, it’s a fascinating glimpse of the sort of people who inhabited the area a century ago. The cast includes artists, sculptors, barristers, stablemen and chauffeurs along with the celebrity body builder Eugene Sandow. The author reveals that postcard cartoonist Phil May and his wife lived on Holland Park Road and Phil was a regular (and a generous buyer) at the Holland Arms. Prominent Suffragettes lived at Campden Hill Square. By the time I’d learnt all this I felt I was on nodding terms with the area’s inhabitants! Grand houses, a skating rink and a host of shops all play their part in an impressive panoply of Edwardian life. Featured postcards include those by the top London publisher Charles Martin. The book’s last chapter focuses on Holland House, largely destroyed by German fire bombing in the 1940 blitz.”