Today we toured the lovely Thames-side Hammersmith Terrace home of famed English typographer Emery Walker (1851 - 1933), who along with his close friend textile designer William Morris were pioneers in the British Arts & Crafts Movement which flourished between 1880 and 1920. The cozy home was chock-a-block with the trappings of Arts & Crafts style... furniture, tapestries, wallpaper, textiles & art, and there to explain it all to us during a most thorough and illuminating 2 hour tour were two charming lady guides, Marigold and Thalia. Marigold was especially up on the intrigues of the Walker and Morris families, including rumored liaisons between artists' model Jane Morris (William's wife) and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and between May Morris (William & Jane's daughter) and Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Emery Walker's daughter Dorothy and her companion Elizabeth preserved the Walker home as a museum for visitors to enjoy. Photography was restricted to the garden.
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| Dahlias in the garden |
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| The Emery Walker House is right beside the Thames |
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| That's Thalia in the garden |
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Entrance today to the Sir Emery Walker House .
Originally the house entry was via the river. |
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| Dating from the late 1800s the Black Lion Riverside Pub & Beer Garden |
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| St. Peter's Church, Hammersmith, built 1829 |
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| Stopped here for a coffee |
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| St. Peter's Hammersmith |
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| Black vintage Citroën |
Glad you enjoyed the two hour tour. It is definitely worth seeing and how was the coffee???
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