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Rathbone Place
Rathbone Place is a street in central London that runs roughly north-west from Oxford Street to Percy Street. it is joined on its eastern side by Percy Mews, Gresse Street, and Evelyn Yard. The street is mainly occupied by retail and office premises. History The street was originally known as Glanville Street.Rathbone Street , ''Survey of London, Volume 21, The parish of St Pancras part 3: Tottenham Court Road & Neighbourhood''. 1949. British History Online. Retrieved 13 November 2014. It was renamed after Captain Thomas Rathbone, who had owned a house on the street since 1684. Inhabitants The essayist and critic William Hazlitt lived at No. 12 from 1802 to 1805, while the painter John Constable lived at No. 50 during this time. The sculptor Gilbert Bayes lived at No. 52 from 1899 to 190 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathbone Place, 9 May 2016
Rathbone is a surname which may refer to: People * Monroe Jackson Rathbone II (1900–1976), American businessman * Andy Rathbone (born 1961), American writer. * Augusta Rathbone (1897–1990), American artist * Clyde Rathbone (born 1981), Australian rugby union player * Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1872–1946), British M.P. and campaigner for women's rights * Elfrida Rathbone (1871–1940), English educationist and philanthropist, cousin of Eleanor Rathbone * Hannah Mary Rathbone (1798–1878), English writer * Harold Steward Rathbone, co-founder of Della Robbia Pottery * Henry Rathbone (1837–1911), US Army major and diplomat present at Abraham Lincoln's assassination * Henry Riggs Rathbone (1870–1928), US Congressman and son of Henry Rathbone * Hugh Reynolds Rathbone (1862–1940), Liverpool merchant * Jack Rathbone (born 1999), American ice hockey player * Jackson Rathbone (born 1984), American actor * John Rathbone (1910–40), English politician * John Rathbone (1750–180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public House
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#On-licence, on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century, to differentiate private houses from those open to the public as alehouses, taverns and inns. Today, there is no strict definition, but the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) states a pub has four characteristics: # is open to the public without membership or residency # serves draught beer or cider without requiring food be consumed # has at least one indoor area not laid out for meals # allows drinks to be bought at a bar (i.e., not only table service) The history of pubs can be traced to taverns in Roman Britain, and through Anglo-Saxon alehouses, but it was not until the early 19th century that pubs, as they are today, first began to appear. The model also became popular in countries and regions of British influence, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Rathbone
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in ''David Copperfield'' (1935), Tybalt in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1936) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938). His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. Rathbone's later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. In 1948, he shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play with two others. He was also nominated for two Academy Awards and honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Rathbone was born in Johannes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Problem (Sherlock)
"The Final Problem" is the third episode of the fourth series, and the series finale, of the British television series '' Sherlock'', and the thirteenth episode overall. The episode first aired on BBC One, PBS, Channel One and 1+1 on 15 January 2017. Plot A young girl wakes up on an aeroplane and finds everybody asleep. Panic stricken, she picks up a mobile phone and attempts to call for help only to hear the voice of Jim Moriarty announce, "Welcome to the final problem". After staging a break-in at his home and tricking him into revealing Eurus' existence, Mycroft Holmes reveals that, like himself and Sherlock, Eurus was also born with advanced intellectual abilities, even being described as an era-defining genius on a par with Isaac Newton. However, she also has a total lack of normal sensation and emotion. When she kidnapped and killed Sherlock's dog, Redbeard, and set their house on fire, Sherlock's parents sent Eurus to a mental institution. But Mycroft reveals that, behi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction News
''Construction News'' is a monthly publication, plus digital and events services, primarily targeting the United Kingdom construction industry. History Early history The magazine was first published as ''Labour News'' on 30 August 1871, having been founded by Victorian reformer Alsager Hay Hill to try to ease the blight of unemployment by printing information about job vacancies. It became ''Construction and Labour News'' on 14 March 1963, and just over a year later (9 April 1964) was first published under its current title. Emap Prior to its acquisition for £7.6m by Emap in August 1995, ''Construction News'' and its related media interests was owned by the Thomson Corporation Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reut .... At that time, the publication had a paid-for circul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Portland Estates
Great Portland Estates plc (branded as GPE) is a British property development and investment company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The firm switched to Real Estate Investment Trust status when REITs were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007. History GPE was founded by Howard and Basil Samuel in 1959 to invest in properties originally developed by the Dukes of Portland. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange later that year. It acquired the Ilex Estate in 1997. In 2007 the company converted into a real estate investment trust. In April 2018 it was announced that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, KKR would be taking up 57,000 square feet of space in GPE's new office development in Hanover Square, Westminster, Hanover Square. The move was the biggest single deal in Mayfair for a decade. Great Portland Estates was rebranded to GPE in November 2021. Operations GPE is based in London and the great majority of its assets a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Rathbone Square
One Rathbone Square is a commercial building in London, and was the UK headquarters of Facebook. History Rathbone Square is a development in central London. The site was bought from Royal Mail Group for £120m in September 2011; it was the former West End Delivery Office. Design Planning consent was granted from Westminster City Council in February 2014. The main architect for the site was Graham Longman; Make Architects were given the project in October 2011. Construction Construction began in July 2014, with demolition of the former seven-storey site. Main construction began in 2015. Structure It is situated off Oxford Street, in the east of the City of Westminster, and is on the boundary with the London Borough of Camden. It is about 500m south-east of the BT Tower, which can be seen along the neighbouring Rathbone Place. The site costs Facebook £17.8m per year to rent, with a fifteen-year term on the contract. It features a build called LDN_LAB, a business incubator for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Mail
Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distribution Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). Formed in 2001, the company used the name Consignia for a brief period but changed it soon afterwards. Prior to this date, Royal Mail and Parcelforce were (along with Post Office Counters Ltd) part of the Post Office, a UK state-owned enterprise the history of which is summarised below. Long before it came to be a company name, the 'Royal Mail' brand had been used by the General Post Office to identify its distribution network (which over the centuries included horse-drawn mail coaches, horse carts and hand carts, ships, trains, vans, motorcycle combinations and aircraft). The company provides mail collection and delivery services throughout the UK. Letters and parcels are deposited in post or parcel boxes, or are collected in bul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems " Do not go gentle into that good night" and " And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under Milk Wood''. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as '' A Child's Christmas in Wales'' and '' Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog''. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet". Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914, leaving school in 1932 to become a reporter for the '' South Wales Daily Post''. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In 1934, the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines" caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara; they married in 1937 and had t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohemianism
Bohemianism is a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations. The term originates from the French ''bohème'' and spread to the English-speaking world. It was used to describe mid-19th-century non-traditional lifestyles, especially of artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and actors in major European cities. Bohemian is a 19th-century historical and literary topos that places the milieu of young metropolitan artists and intellectuals—particularly those of the Latin Quarter in Paris—in a context of poverty, hunger, appreciation of friendship, idealization of art and contempt for money. Based on this topos, the most diverse real-world subcultures are often referred to as "bohemian" in a figurative sense, especially (but by no means exclusively) if they show traits of a precariat. Bohemians were associated with unorthodox or anti-establishment political or social viewpoints expressed through f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia
The Wheatsheaf is a pub in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, that was popular with London's bohemian set in the 1930s. Its customers included George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings, who were known for a while as the ''Wheatsheaf writers'' Other habitués included the singer and dancer Betty May, and the writer and surrealist poet Philip O'Connor, Nina Hamnett, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Carson and Quentin Crisp. Dylan Thomas In spring 1936, the poet Dylan Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara (1913–1994), a 22-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent. She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium. Introduced by the artist Augustus John, Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf.Paul Ferris "Thomas, Caitlin (1913–1994)", ''Oxf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
