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Eastcastle Street
Eastcastle Street is a street in the City of Westminster. It runs from Newman Street in the east to Great Titchfield Street in the west. It is crossed by Berners Street and Wells Street. Winsley Street runs from its south side. Berners Mews joins it on the north side and Berners Place on the south. It was originally named Castle Street and continued as Great Castle Street beyond Oxford Market square (now Market Place). It was the site of the Eastcastle Street robbery. Notable buildings It contains listed buildings: * The Champion public house. *The Welsh Church of Central London. *The Berners Hotel (faces Berners Street). *United Kingdom House (facade fronts Oxford Street). It is also the location of the Getty Images Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets— creative ... galler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Westminster
The City of Westminster is a city and borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of central Greater London, including most of the West End. Many London landmarks are within the borough, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Westminster Cathedral, 10 Downing Street, and Trafalgar Square. Westminster became a city in 1540, and historically, it was a part of the ceremonial county of Middlesex. Its southern boundary is the River Thames. To the City of Westminster's east is the City of London and to its west is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. To its north is the London Borough of Camden. The borough is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street; and the night-time entertainment district of Soho. Much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newman Street
Newman Street is a street in the City of Westminster. It runs from the junction of Mortimer Street, Cleveland Street, and Goodge Street in the north to Oxford Street in the south and is joined on its western side by Eastcastle Street. Notable buildings The former Dickie Fitz Dickie Fitz was a restaurant in a former pub at 48 Newman Street on the corner with Goodge Street in the City of Westminster, London. It closed in June 2017. It had traded under that name for about one year as an Australia Australia, of ... restaurant is at number 48 on the corner with Goodge Street. It contains a number of listed buildings: *No. 33 on the eastern side. *Nos 27 to 29 on the eastern side. *No. 73 on the western side. References External links * Streets in the City of Westminster {{london-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Titchfield Street
Great Titchfield Street is a street in the West End of London. It runs north from Oxford Street to Greenwell Street, just short of the busy A501 Marylebone Road and Euston Road. It lies within the informally designated London area of Fitzrovia. In administrative terms it is in the City of Westminster. It lies within their designated East Marylebone Conservation Area in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone. History Like the better known Portland Place and Great Portland Street which run parallel with it to the west, Great Titchfield Street was developed by the Dukes of Portland, who owned most of the eastern half of Marylebone in the 18th and 19th centuries. It appears half complete on the John Rocque map of 1746. At that time it only ran from Oxford Street to Riding House Street. In 1757, the New Road, now Marylebone Road, was laid out to provide a route around built-up London. This encouraged residential development in the area, with a regular grid of streets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berners Street
Berners Street is a thoroughfare located to the north of Oxford Street in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, originally developed as a residential street in the mid-18th century by property developer William Berners, and later devoted to larger commercial and semi-industrial buildings or mansion blocks of flats. It has associations with Charles Dickens, and was the location of makers of musical instruments including pianos and harps, as well as furniture and film-makers. Geography Berners Street runs approximately 195 metres in a northerly direction from the junction of Oxford Street and Wardour Street to join up with Mortimer Street (formerly Charles Street) and the former Middlesex Hospital (now called Fitzroy Place). The street lies in an area known as Fitzrovia and is considered historically to be in East Marylebone. Twenty one trees were added to Berners Street in 2012. History Berners Street was originally developed as a residential street by the Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Street
Wells Street is a street in the City of Westminster. It runs from Riding House Street in the north to Oxford Street in the south. It is crossed by Mortimer Street and Eastcastle Street. It is joined on its western side by Marylebone Passage and on the eastern side by Booth's Place and Wells Mews. St Andrew's church Wells Street was once the location of St Andrew's, a Church of England parish church, completed to designs by Samuel Daukes in 1847, which was deconstructed and rebuilt in its entirety in Kingsbury, Middlesex, in 1933–34.St Andrew’s Church, formerly in Wells Street, now at Kingsbury, Middlesex. Survey of London,University College London, 1 April 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2017. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winsley Street
Winsley is a large village and civil parish about west of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Conkwell, Turleigh, Little Ashley and Great Ashley. History The area was probably farmed in Roman times, as it lay between the town of Aquae Sulis (now Bath) and a villa complex at Bradford. Winsley is not mentioned in Domesday Book, being included with Bradford. The Bradford estate was granted to St Mary's Abbey, Winchester in 955 and then in 1001 to Shaftesbury Abbey. The Wiltshire Victoria County History has an account of later owners. Winsley is first recorded (as ''Winesley'') in 1242 although the name is Saxon in origin. Other settlements around this time were Haugh, Ashley, Hartleigh and Turleigh. Stone quarrying became important from the 18th century, with quarries at Conkwell and at Murhill, where from 1803 stone for the canal was carried by wagons down a wooden railway. The 1841 census found 105 labourers working in stone quarries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastcastle Street Robbery
The Eastcastle Street robbery was the holdup of a Post Office van in London in May 1952 which, at the time, was Britain's largest postwar robbery.''The Guardian''; 26 January 1995; "Final curtain for robber who got away" The robbers escaped with £287,000 (estimated to be worth, in 2019, approximately £). It occurred around 4:20am on Wednesday 21 May in Eastcastle Street just off Oxford Street, central London, when seven masked men held up a post office van.''The Times''; 22 May 1952; "London Mail Robbery Security Measures Tightened" The robbers used two cars to sandwich the van. The first car emerged slowly from a side street causing the van to slow down, the second car then pulled up alongside.The Times, 23 May 1952; "£200,000 Stolen From Van" The driver and two attendants were dragged out and coshed and the van was stolen. It was later found abandoned near Regent's Park; 18 of the 31 mailbags were missing. It was found that the van's alarm bell had been tampered with. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Church Of Central London
The Welsh Church of Central London (Welsh: Eglwys Gymraeg Canol Llundain, EGCLL), also known as The Welsh Baptist Chapel is a Welsh Baptist church in Eastcastle Street, in the City of Westminster, London, England. The church building is a grade II listed building with Historic England on the National Heritage List for England. It currently performs Baptist services bilingually in English and in Welsh as well as hosting concerts following a merger of the Welsh Baptist church with two nearby Independent churches in 2006. History In the 1880s, a large number of Welsh people came to London to work. As the Welsh population rose, churches were set up to minister to them. In 1888, the Welsh Church of Central London, then the Welsh Baptist Chapel, was constructed as a place where Welsh Baptists could worship in services in the Welsh language in London. When it was first opened, it was described in the Baptist Magazine as a "church of a most aggressive character, doing a grand work amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Champion, Public House
The Champion is a grade II listed public house in Wells Street, in the City of Westminster, London. It was built around 1860 to 1870 of gault brick with stucco dressings and a slate roof. Historic England comment on its "lively classical detailing". It was refitted by architects John Robson Reid and Sylvia Reid in the 1950s following a competition in ''Architectural Review ''The Architectural Review'' is a monthly international architectural magazine. It has been published in London since 1896. Its articles cover the built environment – which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism ...''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berners Hotel
The London EDITION is a historic luxury boutique hotel, formerly known as the Berners Hotel, located in Berners Street in the City of Westminster, London. History The Berners Hotel was built in 1908–10, designed by John Slater, surveyor to the Berners Estate. It is a grade II listed building. The hotel was owned by Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts and operated as the Berners Park Plaza Hotel throughout the 1990s, until it was sold to JJW Hotels and Resorts in 2001 and returned to its historic name. The hotel closed in 2006 for renovations, which were begun but never completed, after the property went bankrupt in August 2010. The Berners Hotel was acquired by Marriott Hotels in November 2010, and the new owners announced it would be renovated and branded as one of their EDITION Hotels. The hotel reopened as The London EDITION in September 2013, with interiors designed by Yabu Pushelberg. Marriott sold the hotel, along with two other corporate-owned EDITION hotels, to the Abu Dhabi I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom House
United Kingdom House at 164–182 Oxford Street in the City of Westminster, London, is a grade II listed former Waring and Gillow's department store designed in 1905–1906 by Frank Atkinson with advice from Richard Norman Shaw Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), also known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the g .... It is now used as retail and offices premises. References External links * * Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster Department store buildings in the United Kingdom Grade II listed retail buildings Oxford Street Buildings and structures completed in 1906 1906 establishments in the United Kingdom {{London-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
