Victor Talking Machine Mosaic, Carteret Street
On my way to a teaching conference near St James’s Park today I happened to spot this beautiful mosaic advertisement down a side-street, Carteret Street to be exact.
After a bit of rooting around on the web it seemed the most likely explanation is that it was an advertisement for the Victor Talking Machine Company, a business in the 1920s that produced phonographs. If so, somehow this striking example of mosaic tiling has been preserved for 90 years or so.
Thanks for this little post about the Carteret Street mosaic. It caught my eye and when I did a quick little Internet search yours was the first thing that came up. Fantastic work, thanks for the info. How did you find the name of the Talking Machine company?
Hiya, So glad you like the images. It’s a beautiful mosaic. I put a call out on Twitter and then googled the Victor Talking Machine Company – it has a wiki page as it turns out.
Hello! It all seems to be happening at the same time. I came across this yesterday and googled ‘Victor Mosaic’ and here I am! Will be writing it up in my iPad Around London blog.
Hello! Excellent news. I enjoyed the post very much.
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I love this mosaic and have admired it for many years. But I can’t see any obvious link to the Victor company, whose logo appears to have been the HMV listening dog. What makes you think that this is a definite link? I had always assumed that the mosaic was once attached to a long defunct club or restaurant, although the more natural terminology might have been ‘Victor’s’ in that case.