| Description | Prose and verse illustrated with line and coloured drawings, with contributions from family members and friends.
Includes poem entitled The Underground Railway and description of encounter on Willesden train, travelling from Uxbridge Road to Blackfriars in The Power of a Picture. Three Glimpses through the Glass recounts an outline history of the family.
Original binding with gold lettering and initials PHL.
Note: The Hammersmith rate books of April 1884 and April 1885 list Charles Barker as the occupier of 15 Askew Crescent. He moved from 8 Askew Crescent sometime after April 1883.
Charles Barker was a master bookbinder and a widower, with three daughters and a son. In the 1881 census he lived at 8 Askew Crescent, and by the time of the 1891 census he had moved to 53 Richmond Gardens, Hammersmith. He died in October 1902 and was buried on 25 October in Hammersmith Cemetery, Margravine Road |