Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black The section covers the area

The section covers the area between Battersea Park in the North West

Collins created a number of night-time photographs playing with the bright lights of the West End to record people enjoying the buzz of fifties nightlife

but as rents increased

The Serpentine was created early in George II's reign by damming the Westbourne

a celebrated refreshment lodge where syllabub and cheesecake could be had can be seen in the distance

Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black The section covers the areaAn illustration of the Boat Race at Putney Bridge from 'London, a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold describes the scene, with the Oxford and Cambridge rowers approaching 'amid frantic shouting, amid a snow storm of pocket handkerchiefs and delirious ravings of purple faced betting men'. The rowers are followed by a 'helter skelter' of steamers 'hidden under their human burden and gay with bunting'. On the bridge the