Bedford Park, London
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Bedford Park is a suburban development in Chiswick, London, begun in 1875 under the direction of Jonathan Carr, with many large houses in British Queen Anne Revival style by Norman Shaw and other lead
Leafy artists' suburb: a tile-hung detached house on Rupert Road, Bedford Park, by the architect Norman Shaw, 1879
Bedford House, The Avenue, is an 18th-century house, lending its name to the estate which grew up around it.
Melbourne House, South Parade was one of the few other existing houses on the estate.
The Church, Tabard Inn and Stores from Acton Green by Edward Hargitt, 1882
Jonathan Thomas Carr was an English cloth merchant turned property developer and speculator. He is remembered for founding the Bedford Park garden suburb in Chiswick, west London. While he probably wa
Carr, aged 19 in 1864
Painting of Carr's large property in Bedford Park, Tower House (centre), by Manfred Trautschold, 1882
Carr's promotion of 'Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. the Healthiest Place in the World': coloured lithograph by Frederick Hamilton Jackson, c. 1882
Jonathan Carr plaque on the wall of St Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Park