Surrey Commercial Docks 1922 Harold Burdekin These portraits of leading society

These portraits of leading society figures are juxtaposed with a crowd of caricatured Londoners

Sailing barge at Greenmoor Wharf

The painting depicts Old London Bridge

while pictures of street-side galleries place London's art scene within an ever-expanding cosmopolitan world

New volume in ACC Art Books' The London series

Surrey Commercial Docks 1922 Harold Burdekin These portraits of leading societyA horse drawn cart belonging to the Midland Railway Company was photographed at the Surrey Commercial Docks waiting to take part of a cargo of paper from the S. S. Castor. These docks were not linked by rail, so carts and vans would take some of the imported products to the railways to be sent countrywide. A year after this photo was taken The Midland Railway was merged with many other companies to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Surrey