The postcard above, printed around 1908, shows what Wood Lane used to look like. The postcard shows the entrance to "The Great White City", an exhibition space which hosted many extravagant exhibitions until the outbreak of war in 1914. Today, Wood lane is an unappealing hodgepodge of Victorian terraces (mostly budget hotels), car parks (soon to be demolished), shopping centres (Westfield), bus stops, offices, and building sites. It's not a street that invites pedestrians, though this may change as new development changes the landscape over the next few years. Still, however things turn out, it's hard to imagine Wood Lane ever looking as good as it did over a hundred years ago.
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