Photograph, gelatin silver print

Clouds over one of two huge carved heads of Old Father Thames which flank the steps at the rear entrance to Hammersmith Town Hall. The architect E. Berry Webber designed the Town Hall in 1938-9 and these heads are a reminder that the building stands on old Hammersmith Creek.
Sandra Flett was a semi professional photographer who lived in Chiswick and photographed the river extensively. She could see the Thames from her house and writes ‘We have lived near the river for years and it has become part of the background of our lives’. For her, the river was a ‘geographical backbone’ linking together the disparate parts of London.