This impression is strengthened by a small photographic exhibition in the nursery, focusing on Hampstead in the 1930s, which potentially could be expanded upon. Guidebook An attractive guidebook by Alan Powers is available at 3, to accompany the house tour or for later digestion. This is conveniently divided into coherent sections focusing on key themes. Peter Goldfinger contributes a section on growing up at Willow Road. Other sections reinforce the information offered by the video and tour guide, and compliment these without becoming repetitive.
Further chapters focus on vital though subsidiary aspects - interior design, services arid fittings.
The design quality of the book is high, and its predominantly black and white format is at once aesthetically appealing and appropriate to its subject matter. As the amount of text is quite substantial, but balanced by visual information, the book is likely to satisfy both the general visitor and those with prior knowledge or more specific interests. A separate list, with notes, details the art collection. The guides generally find visitors' responses to the house and its presentation favourable. Many like to imagine what it would be like to live there, or draw comparisons with their own homes or remembered things.