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The sun also rises in NW6 A Victorian artist's studio, with links to Thomas Hardy and the Beatles, has turned Japanese - and is now for sale. Sonia Purnell reports

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20041017
Author:by SONIA PURNELL

The solidly built, redbrick West Hampstead Studios just off West End Lane in north London could not boast a more English heritage. Built in 1879, they were designed by the Gothic Revivalist architect Sir Arthur Blomfield. The project - which included clearing the local graveyard for West Hampstead railway station - was a training ground for the young Thomas Hardy before he became one of the greatest names in literature. He was Blomfield's assistant, but soon dropped architecture for his budding writing career. He later revisited the Studios while working on Tess of the d'Ubervilles.

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