Throughout the medieval period, the Palace of Whitehall grew as a complex of buildings housing the Royal Family. It was substantially extended by Henry VIII who also acquired St. James’s Park and other land for hunting, thus assuring the continuing close relationship of open space to Royal and government buildings. The eastern portion of the …
November 2018 archive
Streets of the City of Westminster
This forms part of the “Streets of” series of posts where we have gathered the information from the conservation areas of each London borough, in this case Westminster. https://www.westminster.gov.uk/conservation-areas Adelphi Bayswater Belgravia Birdcage Walk Covent Garden Fitzrovia Harley Street Haymarket Knightsbridge Leicester Square Lisson Grove Maida Vale Marylebone Mayfair Paddington Green Pimlico Queen’s Park Estate …
Survey of London: Battersea High Street area
Table of contents Survey of London: BatterseaBartlett School of Architecture/UCL Next This material appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College Londonwww.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.01_battersea_high_street_area.pdfUsed with permission. © English Heritage 2013 The High Street area, encompassing the historic core of Battersea village, has a long and involved building history but little pre-Victorian fabric. The economic …
Survey of London: Battersea
Table of contents Survey of London: Battersea Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL Battersea High Street area This eBook appears courtesy of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.01_battersea_high_street_area.pdf Used with permission. © English Heritage 2013 Chapter 1: Battersea High Street area Chapter 2: Battersea Bridge Road to York Road Battersea Riverside Chapter 3: …
A Topographical Dictionary of London: N
NAG’S HEAD COURT. – 1. is in Drury Lane. – 2. is in Golden Lane, Barbican, the second turning on the left hand, about twelve houses from Old Street. – 3. is also in Golden Lane, about two or three houses on the right hand from Barbican. – 4. is in Gracechurch Street, about a …
London Street Names (1896)
LONDON STREET NAMES. THEIR ORIGIN, SIGNIFICATION, AND HISTORIC VALUE; WITH DIVERS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS F. H. HABBEN, B.A. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1896 PRELIMINARY. ” The happiness of London,” said the oracular Dr Johnson, whom we still reverence as “the great lexicographer,” notwithstanding his inevitable supersession by the lapse of time — ” The happiness …
Queenstown Road, SW11
Image credit: Queenstown Road looking north towards Battersea Power Station, in 2012. (Historic England)
London Borough of Sutton
This guide to the conservation areas of the London Borough of Sutton is largely taken from the borough’s document with some sections augmented by street guides from the Wikipedia: Click to access Part%201.pdf Anne Boleyns Walk, SM3 The area has a typical inter-war suburban form and represents a cohesive example of the historic development …
Maida Vale
The Maida Vale area was developed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the early 19th century as middle class housing. The earliest layouts followed on from the building of the Regent’s Canal (1812-20) although building only started significantly in the 1830s, the southern area being virtually complete by mid 1860s up to Sutherland Avenue. The remaining …
Maxwell’s Hampstead
From “Hampstead, its historic houses, its literary and artistic associations”, Anna Maxwell (1912) PRIORY LODGE. That ” small house ” has been enlarged, and become the present Priory Lodge, which, happily for the pilgrim’s purpose, remains untenanted and in the care of a person who can point out the original Johnson rooms, also facilitating a …