During
his student years Michael Andrews lived for a while at the Epsom home of an
ex-army friend, the writer Peter Stanford. This
street scene combines a house in Paddington with a rocking horse seen in Epsom.
However, the people are types rather than specific portraits. Terence Mullaly
observed critically that the artist seemed to think he could make a picture out
of any collocation of forms, an accusation which Andrews thought to be true and
complimentary.
The picture was also shown in the 1952 Beaux Arts show, when it was entitled
A Street.