Mwah-hah-hah-hah!
No, seriously, though. This happens a lot to me as well. If you shoot street in London and follow others who do the same, you can sometimes spot, to the nearest yard, where the person was standing when they took the photo. Was the Charlotte Place shop the newsagents on the corner? I've done at least a couple of shots which include that. The pond is not a million miles from Bromley, but it's permanent, and has been for at least the more than twenty years I've passed by it.
No, it’s this one, looking South from Goodge Street to Rathbone Place:
View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/garryknight/49221490677/
(is it OK to link it here? I think you may have another on Flickr, in colour not with a phone cam). It’s a fairly popular place for photos, partly because you can frame the PO Tower in it.
My grandfather’s greengocer’s was on the right, corner with Goodge St, now a restaurant but it keeps changing hands since he retired pre-1960. I and my brothers used to visit it as school kids. I don’t know when the family members stopped living there though I know my great-grandfather had moved to Fitzroy Square by the time of his death.
Back in 1911 there were 18 of us in 3 of the houses, 1, 5, 13, on both sides and they had several shops, greengrocer, fruiterer, confectioner, all food related
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There were 3 named “Richard” (eldest son tradition) the oldest of which was my gggfather born in 1836, just 100 years before me, and the youngest my grandfather
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It wasn’t called Charlotte Street then but was know as “The Court”. It’s still residential because there are flats above the shops
“My pond” was a sort of crater on Hayes Common and mostly dry, we used to ride our bikes somewhat perilously down the tracks. I think it is a permanent pond now.
Leeds Castle (Kent)-03513 by G.K.Jnr., on Flickr
for looking.,
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