Birdcage Walk runs east from Great George Street, along the south side of St James’s Park.
At the western end of Great George Street, was Storey’s named after Master Edward Storey, the "keeper of the king’s birds," whose house stood on the spot.
The birds, the amusements of Charles II, were kept in aviaries arranged in order along the road which bounds the south side of the Park. Originally the Walk was the carriage-road between Storey’s Gate and Buckingham Gate and only open until 1828 to the Royal Family and to the Hereditary Grand Falconer, the Duke of St. Albans. It was a ’walk’ to the rest of us!
About half of the south side of Birdcage Walk, extending from Queen Anne’s Gate to Buckingham Gate, is occupied by the Wellington Barracks, for the use of the household troops. The barracks were first occupied by troops in the year before the battle of Waterloo.
