The Universal Samaritan?
Emery Walker and his house in Hammersmith
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An illustrated talk at St Bride Library, 30 April 2008 at 7pm

Admission £5/£3 concessions

Emery Walker (1851—1933), the co-founder of the Doves Press, is well
known in printing circles as a key figure in the private press movement,
and as the commercially successful pioneer of cutting-edge techniques of
photo-reproduction. He was an the intimate friend of William Morris,
Philip Webb and Bernard Shaw, and a significant figure in the wider Arts
and Crafts and socialist movements. These aspects of his life are still
evident at 7 Hammersmith Terrace, his home for the last 30 years of his
life. The talk offers an introduction to Walker’s life and a look at his
home which, with its William Morris, Cotswold and North African
furnishings, is the best-preserved Arts and Crafts interior in Britain.

Aileen Reid works for English Heritage as an historian on the Survey
of London, the official history of London’s streets and buildings. Since
2001 she has also been curator at 7 Hammersmith Terrace, where she
catalogued the contents and oversaw the opening of the house to the
public for the first time in 2005.

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