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Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam: the entrance to the Chinese Tea House in the Park
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NOTES: Sanssouci was the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Built above a terraced vineyard in 1745-1747, it is essentially a single-storey villa, containing ten principal rooms. The creation of the Park, organised around several buildings, began soon after the completion of the palace.
Royal Festival Hall and Skylon, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London, seen from the east
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NOTES: The Architects Department of the London County Council were responsible for the Royal Festival Hall and Powell & Moya designed the Skylon.
New Council House (Guildhall), Old Market Square, Salisbury: perspective view with a market taking place
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NOTES: The 'New Council House' was designed by Sir Robert Taylor and completed in 1795 following the destruction of the previous 'Old Council House' in 1780.
Helter skelter and roundabout, Hampstead, London
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NOTES: This image was almost certainly taken on the Gray family’s fairground in the Vale of Health, Hampstead Heath. During the 1930s Edwin Smith and his wife Olive Cook lived next to this site and knew the Gray family well. The painter Stanley Spencer was also a neighbour and he painted a picture of the helter-skelter in the photograph, that is now part of the Graves Art Gallery collection at Sheffield. The ride in the foreground of the photograph was Fred Gray’s set of Gallopers. This ride still exists and is part of the Thursford Collection at Fakenham in Norfolk.
