The Lady Vanishes: Park Crescent, West London (Christmas Eve 1959)

[Yithian]

Not a lot to go on, but the author seems to be Lucian Landau, psychic investigator, medium, dowser and condom pioneer!

I'm on a phone at the moment. Can anybody rustle up an image of the location?

 

[Tunn11]

Here's a streetview link. Can see 1 and 7 looks as if the others may have been combined for offices or not numbered or have doors an basement level?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...950b6!8m2!3d51.5231632!4d-0.1475938?entry=ttu

 

[Yithian]

Here's a streetview link. Can see 1 and 7 looks as if the others may have been combined for offices or not numbered or have doors an basement level?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...950b6!8m2!3d51.5231632!4d-0.1475938?entry=ttu

Very good.

Lamps still in situ, too.

 

[Tunn11]

Very good.

Lamps still in situ, too.

It looks as if the layout may have changed a bit (or even the numbering) but could she have gone down some of the steps to a basement level and either entered the building or hidden there? If 4 was unoccupied it could have been being used as a type of squat and if she shouldn't have been there may have not wanted to be seen.

 

[Floyd]

It looks as if the layout may have changed a bit (or even the numbering) but could she have gone down some of the steps to a basement level and either entered the building or hidden there?

It certainly looks like that now.
Nos. 2-6 seem to have been merged into adjoining properties with access to those now perhaps throught the gate(s);

 

[Floyd]

Here's a map showing how the properties used to be separated;