View of Charing Cross Road and the Garrick Theatre 1929 Frame:natural A coloured aquatint with engraving

A coloured aquatint with engraving

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View of Charing Cross Road and the Garrick Theatre 1929 Frame:natural A coloured aquatint with engravingView 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.