Decline and fall

Tucked in behind Five Ways, at the rear of Gusto's Brasserie, is a narrow woebegone alley, sign-posted White Lane. Filled with natural debris and human detritus, it started life as a service lane for the 'night-cart', morphing gradually into motor garaging. As her age catches up with her, the 1888 building is sucked to her knees by rising damp, and the inevitability of dust-to-dust.

Paddington Posters (1) - Underwood Street

Underwood Street (which is parallel to Oxford Street) crosses William Street a block to the north. It is a narrow jaggy street, but that is not unique in Paddington. On one corner sits a laundromat, and on another a pub, The London.

The laundromat is in a two storey, non-descript terrace building, plentiful in Paddington, which probably dates from the 1880s. Beside the laundromat, is a barely sign-posted graffic design studio.

I gather that commissions are scarce, and income borderline.