View of Charing Cross Road and the Garrick Theatre 1929 Frame:natural from Ludgate Hill

from Ludgate Hill

In their own words

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this ground-breaking non-fiction graphic novel

which is dominated by the looming dome of St Paul's Cathedral is full of shoppers and tradespeople

Westminster Abbey can be seen on the background and on the extreme right is part of Victoria Embankment with new St Stephen's Club

View of Charing Cross Road and the Garrick Theatre 1929 Frame:natural from Ludgate HillView of Charing Cross Road and the Garrick Theatre. George Davison Reid took this photo looking north along Charing Cross Road. He captured the theatrical and musical face of London's West End at the end of the 1920s. The London Hippodrome, The Alhambra and the Garrick Theatre are all included in the composition. At the Garrick, a young Laurence Olivier was playing a supporting role in The Stranger Within for the summer of 1929.