Category: Mayfair

Park Lane, W1K

Park Lane has several historically significant properties and is one of the most desirable streets in London.

Hanover Square Rooms

The Hanover Square Rooms (also called the Queen’s Concert Rooms) were assembly rooms principally for musical performances.

Albany Courtyard, W1B

The courtyard is named after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, who in 1791 purchased Melbourne House which stood on this site.

St George’s, Hanover Square

St George’s, Hanover Square, is an Anglican church built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London (the Queen Anne Churches).

Royal Society

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine.

Royal Aeronautical Society

The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British-founded multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community.

Oxford Street, W1S

Oxford Street is England’s most famous and popular shopping street.

Mayfair

Mayfair derives its name from a fair held in May in fields around the site of today’s Shepherd Market. In the 1660s three large mansions, including Burlington House (now the Royal Academy) were erected on the north side of Piccadilly. These were followed by smaller scale high quality, speculative residential development. Early development was slow …

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The Fascination of London – Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater

Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater – The Fascination of London by Geraldine Edith Mitton Mayfair is at the present time the most fashionable part of London, so much so that the name has come to be a synonym for wealth or pride of birth. Yet it was not always so, as he who runs may read, …

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Old Park Lane, W1

Old Park Lane was formerly the southern extention of Park Lane when the latter was a simple country lane on the boundary of Hyde Park, separated from it by a brick wall. Once known as Tyburn Lane, the whole of Park Lane led from Piccadilly to Tyburn (Marble Arch). Before even that it was known …

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