When Charles Ginner moved from France to London in 1910 he met artists Harold Gilman and Spencer Gore, becoming a fellow member of the Camden Town Group. Ginner captures the bustle of London’s streets by layering the cars, buses, flower sellers, and pedestrians at this busy intersection. He also pays attention to details of everyday life – from the car registration to the advertisement on the bus for Alhambra Theatre of Varieties. His approach to form and his painting style was influenced by Vincent van Gogh, whose paintings Ginner had seen in London in 1910–11 and Parisin 1911.