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Sheffield Terrace, LONDON, W8 7NA

I am not sure why this single brick house is in the middle of the terrace in Sheffield Street. It is rather a strange house.

Looking southwest.

The front of these flats is in Sheffield Terrace. This view is from Hornton Street.

1962 Mercedes 220 in foreground.

The Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38074

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38073

Frank Bridge (1879-1941) was a composer, violist and conductor. He is perhaps best known as the teacher and mentor of Benjamin Britten (the latter's 1938 work "Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge" pays tribute to his teacher) but his own work repays investigation and after a period of obscurity is now receiving the attention it deserves. From him Britten will have learned to be uncompromising both artistically and politically. Bridge's work, unusually, demonstrates a steady movement away from public taste: his early works in a late-Romantic vein, such as the tone-poem "The Sea", were popular, but in the interwar years he became more and more harmonically radical under the influence of the Viennese composers of the time. Politically he was a committed pacifist, a strand seen in his work from "Lament" (an elegy for a child drowned in the sinking of the "Lusitania") to his late major work, "Oration", a "concerto elegaico" for cello. (Bridge's younger brother William was a professional cellist.) His influence will certainly be heard, both musically and politically, in Britten's "War Requiem". More details about Bridge can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge . The English Heritage blue plaque marking this as Frank Bridge's home can just be seen through the wisteria; a closer look, albeit still obstructed, is at Image

Frank Bridge (1879-1941) was a composer, violist and conductor. He is perhaps best known as the teacher and mentor of Benjamin Britten (the latter's 1938 work "Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge" pays tribute to his teacher) but his own work repays investigation and after a period of obscurity is now receiving the attention it deserves. From him Britten will have learned to be uncompromising both artistically and politically. Bridge's work, unusually, demonstrates a steady movement away from public taste: his early works in a late-Romantic vein, such as the tone-poem "The Sea", were popular, but in the interwar years he became more and more harmonically radical under the influence of the Viennese composers of the time. Politically he was a committed pacifist, a strand seen in his work from "Lament" (an elegy for a child drowned in the sinking of the "Lusitania") to his late major work, "Oration", a "concerto elegaico" for cello. (Bridge's younger brother William was a professional cellist.) His influence will certainly be heard, both musically and politically, in Britten's "War Requiem". More details about Bridge can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge . Frank Bridge's plaque is faintly visible at first floor level through the wisteria; it can be seen in context at Image

The earliest London Underground lines, most of which are now part of the Circle Line's route, were built by cut-and-cover, shallow cuttings subsequently arched over, rather than by deep level boring: at points the cutting is exposed to the light like this. An exposed section of line like this, and a house window overlooking it, play a crucial part in a Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans".