The Radium Institute was built in 1912 to the designs of the architect Thomas Phillips Figgis. The institute was groundbreaking in the treatment of diseases using radioactive materials, based on the research of Professor Marie Curie. The daybook records that this photograph was part of a series taken for the Howard de Walden Estate, which owns or leases ninety-two acres (the majority) of the Marylebone area of London. It is almost certain that this photograph - and the rest of the series it belongs to - was commissioned during preparations for the forming of the first de Walden family Estate company in 1918, after considerable refurbishment and rebuilding works were carried out in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. The estate is named after the 6th Baron Howard de Walden, whose widow Lucy Joan Bentinck was passed possession of the estate as sister of the Duke of Portland, who died without male successor. The Portland family had previously held the estate for five generations until 1879.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Architect: Phillips Figgis, T
Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company
Early 20th Century Medical Centre, Early 20th Century Institute, Health And Welfare, Science And Technology