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Lisson Green estate. Site of Marylebone goods
yard. An ambitious post-war
undertaking by the Borough of St Marylebone and completed in 1975 by London
Borough of Westminster,
Narylebone goods depot. Great Central Railway goods depot bombed in 2nd World War. 1901 Site
of Hydraulic Pumping Station
Alpha Road
Went through Church Street and into the park low, slung
houses in no particular order built after 1800.
Alsop Place?
William Allsop farm on the site of Baker Street Station.
Metropolitan Railway’s
offices. Have buffers and couplings sprouting from the
walls! Note also the 'electric spark'
symbol and Metropolitan Railway trespass notice.
Ashbridge Street
1834 yard Great Exeter Street 1939 Ashbridge was the
Borough Surveyor and collected local history material galleried workers
dwellings.
Baker Street
Line of the Tyburn.
Called after developer Edmund Baker of Boston who worked with Mr.Portman
in developing his estate. Baker Street Westminster. Recorded thus in 1794,
after William Baker laid out the street in the second half of the 18th century
on land leased from the Portman estate. Busy street running north to Regent's Park and south to Portman
Square. It was laid out about 1790, but
the surviving
houses of this time have been disguised by their conversion into shops. Leads
from Portman Square to Regent's Park with several fine modern buildings.
120 William Pitt lived in 1803-4, his
niece, the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope, keeping house for him.
26 Sherlock Holmes part of the Abbey National - Volunteer
aimed from the Loyal Volunteers
27 plaque to Mrs.Siddons, RSA replaced by London County
Council
31 Edward Bulwer Lytton, London County Council plaque
school of dancing
46
Bendix acquired this premises in
1947 and it was from here that the campaign to introduce the launderette to
Britain was directed. Three locations were chosen: Queensway as classic bed
sitter land; Raynes Park, typical outer suburban London and a shopping location
near the centre of Lincoln. The Bendix machine was being manufactured under
licence in Britain by Fisher and Ludlow and purchase tax was charged on
domestic luxuries like as washing machines. The washing machines for the
launderettes were essentially the same as the standard domestic model.
54-60 HQ of Bass Charrington in 1970s. Owns lot of vintners. 1967 merger of Charrington, Bass and Mitchell
and Butlers. Lots of mergers behind it
58-59 cabinet makers since 1822
83 Norgeby House. Central Office Of Information, a government
department formed in 1946. Previously special operations
executive, in the 2nd World War.
Michael House. A
fine building a block of shops and offices at the corner of Dorset Street,
Erected in 1913, it was for many years the headquarters
of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
It was extended, and became the head offices of Messrs. Marks &
Spencer, Ltd.
92-124 Abbey National HQ. A Prominent building next to Berkeley Court. The central section is adorned with a clock
tower 150 feet high, which ‘lends majesty to the long vista of buildings in
Baker Street’. It was formally opened on
18th March 1932, by the late Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, then Prime Minister. People
used to write to Sherlock Holmes there.
The company symbol appears in Portland stone on the facade. Abbey
National moved out 2002.
120 plaque to Home of William Pitt, the
younger and Hester Stanhope. Plaque says 'Prime Minister lived here 1803 to 1804' . Plaque erected 1949.
226 Sarah Siddons' house, demolished for the lost property
office
239 done up as
221a Sherlock Holmes, which doesn’t exist or rather didn’t exist. Opened in
1990 and looks like a film set.
Chiltern Court. Built by Metropolitan
railway 1927-9 above Baker Street
Stations. Huge block of flats at the junction with
Marylebone Road. Arnold Bennett, the
novelist, died in 27th March 1931 at 97. Wells lived at 47. Mansion flats -the grandest. Tall, stone-faced block over Baker Station
station by C. W.Dark, planned as a hotel in 1913 in conjunction with the
station, but completed as suites and restaurant only in 1929. It also contains an arcade connecting Baker Street with Marylebone Road, and a branch of the Midland
Bank at the corner of Baker Street.
Baker
Street station.
10th January 1863. Between Finchley Road and Great Portland
Street on the Metropolitan Line. Between St.John’s Wood and Bond Street on the
Jubilee Line. Between Marylebone and Regent’s Park on the Bakerloo Line.
Between Edgware Road and Great Portland Street on the Circle Line and on the
Hammersmith and City Line. In 1840 interests from the City Corporation looked
at the possibility of an underground railway which would ‘transverse or circle the
metropolitan area’. In the mid-1850s the Metropolitan Railway became a reality
and was built along the line of the ‘New Road’ to run between Paddington and
Farringdon. Intended to be underground. 10' wide platforms. Baker Street was one of the first stations on
the line and claims to be the first station opened on the underground
railway. In 1864 the Metropolitan
connected a junction to the St John's Wood Railway here and trains then ran
through to Swiss Cottage. It was intended they should go through to Finchley
Road but that didn’t happen. 1874 junction of East John's Wood line and Inner
Circle. In 1868 the Metropolitan and
St.John's Wood Railway opened and by In 1879 line to there doubled and ran in a
separate tunnel to West Hampstead. In
1880 there were connections to Harrow on the Hill as well as to the south west
London and to the East via the East London line. Came to be called, by Watkin,
'your great terminus'. In 1906 the
Bakerloo opened to Waterloo in a separate but adjacent station and was intended
to be their terminus. It was thus
also the oldest 'tube' in London. The two stations were
linked by a footbridge within a year. The current Metropolitan line layout and
the bulk of the surface buildings, designed by the architect Charles Clark, date
from 1925. The Bakerloo section had originally been
designed by Leslie Green and was on the east side of Baker Street north of the
Lost Property Office. The ticket office
was at basement level. It was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s when a branch
line was added and escalators were installed.
It was eventually demolished in the 1950s. The Jubilee Line, then called
the Fleet Line, was built in 1970 for which a new station tunnel and platform
were needed. It runs Parallel to the
northbound Bakerloo line so they interchange at the same level for both
northbound services. The Southbound
trains use separate platforms so the Jubilee Line trains use the Stanmore
Branch platform. It is an interesting station in that it provides a junction
between the tube and the underground; it has functioned as a terminus in the
past and in many ways has served as a main line railway station. There is a Plaque about Michael Robbins in
the station on the over bridge. There
are drawings of Sherlock Holmes, the world's best-known fictional detective
with deer stalker and pipe, of course – on wall tiles around the inside of the
station. Train staff mess room. HQ of the Metropolitan Line. There was a
Metropolitan electric substation taking power from Neasden in 1905. Five
lines run through the station and there are ten platforms. Only one other
station on the underground has so many - and that's Moorgate. The station is
now also a starting point of the Metropolitan trains to Buckinghamshire and the
Chilterns. The only remains of the Leslie Green Station consist of some portals
in a passageway and some metal grilles.
Features in films 'Ring of Spies’.
Statue of Sherlock Holmes erected in 1999
Berkeley Court, completed in 1929, covers the island site
bounded by Marylebone Road, Glentworth Street, Melcombe Street, and Baker
Street. This o is nine storeys high and
has a roof garden covering an area of an acre.
It also has an arcade of shops leading from Baker Street to Melcombe
Street, and on the ground floor, in Marylebone Road, is a branch of Lloyds
Bank.
Classic Cinema, erected in 1935,
which has a distinctive façade of stone.
Balcombe Street
The best pre-Victorian survivals in
progress in the 1820s and still complete, although with added top floors, etc. Tall terraces, with centres and ends
projecting
65 Wagner
Blandford Square
9 Schreiner
16 Lewes
38 Collins
Bell Street
Centre for second hand book dealers.
Broadley Street
Westminster City Council's low-rise housing of the 1970s.
Broadley Terrace
27 Michael Hopkins Office. expanded with a second building in 1993 using the architects’ own
Patera system. Glass reception area 1995
and it is all linked by a covered walkway.
St
Paul's church
Red Bus House 1887 by G. Hubbard, built as Bryanston Working
Men's Club;
Portman Gate. A
change of mood with the first upmarket private flats to invade the area,
replacing working-class flats of 1887.
1986 by Phippen Randall Parkes,
Artisans and General
Labourers Dwellings 1881. Since
replaced by Portman Gate.
Canal
Widens and moorings for boats on right hand side next to
Marylebone railway.
Freight yards to tranship between canal and rail. Lisson
Grove estate was built by Westminster Council on the site. The canal was originally intended to pass through the
Regents Park, but the route was changed when it became apparent that industrial
barges would lower the tone of the exclusive residential development.
House straddling the canal is called 'upside down house'
because inhabitants have to go downstairs to bed
Terrace for Lisson Grove Institute
Metal bridge over the canal from Lisson Grove housing
estate Tow path plaque Thames Bank Iron Co. once had branch line from Great
Central Railway line and contours of curved track can be seen round the wall
White building behind the wall belonged to IBM.
Bridge over canal: line
into Marylebone, used to be Great Central railway from London to Manchester,
etc., now commuters to Aylesbury
Second bridge,
Metropolitan line to Watford
Third bridge on old maps is
called ‘Chapel Bridge’ carries Park Road, which borders the western side of Regent's
Park
Steps to Park Road from the canal. Canal planned to go through the Park but
because it goes north, it is in a cutting Digamma Cottage. Ugo Foscolo.
Italian revolutionary lived
Chagford Street
Formerly New
Street Mews, where the first Bentley was created in 1909
Dorset Chambers
39 Chagford House is an exception here: built c. 1850 as model lodgings.
Church Street
Created in the 1790s as part of the development of Lisson
Green going west to the parish church at Paddington Green.
Portman Market. Hay market opened in 1830 adding
vegetables and other things soon after.
Named after Sir William Portman who owned the manor in the 16th. Site sold in 1900 and became a vehicle
maintenance department. Closed in 1906
but traders then set up stalls in the street. Developed as part of the Church
Street estate post Second World War.
13 Leigh Hunt
13 Alfie's Antique's Market, on the site of Jordan’s
department store. Home to 100 antique dealers.
Clarence Terrace
The smallest of them all. It was built in 1823 with a central portico
flanked by colonnade screens and a little more ornamentation in the carved
capitals of the columns now flats behind a replica
facade because of subsidence. Clarence
Terrace. This was the work of Decimus Burton and is altogether an elaborate and
magnificent design. The building is intact modern, for as with Park Crescent
the terrace has been completely rebuilt, with a replica of the original facade
disguising the modern flats behind
2 home of
novelist Elizabeth Bowen. MacNeice
Cornwall Terrace
bow window running from the ground to the first
floor and adorned with caryatides. There is a nice story told about this
window. The terrace was planned to extend further northwards, but Mrs. Siddons,
the actress, who lived in York Place (now Baker Street) behind the Park,
complained to George IV that the prospect from her drawing-room window would be
spoiled, so the end of the terrace was altered and adorned. Designed by Decimus
Burton when very young (1821),
British Academy
Cresford Street?
43 Marylebone antiques market.
Dorset Square
Laid out c.1820 after Thomas Lord moved his first cricket
ground to its new site named from the Duke of Dorset, a keen patron of the game
in its early years. Unspoiled terraces of the early 19th century. The
best pre-Victorian survivals in progress in the 1820s and still complete,
although with added top floors, etc.
Original site of Lords 1787-1810
1 plaque was unveiled in 1957 to commemorate the deeds
of the men and women of the Free French Forces and their British comrades who
left from this house on special missions to enemy-occupied France'.
28 22? George Grossmith, Snr
Glentworth Street
Thoroughfare constructed in 1929 to
connect Clarence Gate Gardens with Marylebone Road. Before that date a long row of private houses
covered the entire site fronting Marylebone Road on which two great buildings
have been erected
St.Cyprian.
Clarence
Gate Gardens
Hanover Gate
Flats great blocks at Hanover Gate, which front both
Prince Albert Road and the former burial ground of St. John's Church, were
erected in 1903.
3 Dickens
7 Pinter
13 Noyes
13a Dickinson
17 Collins
Hanover Terrace
By Nash.
Grave, restrained and classical, its pediments adorned with rather isolated
statues.
10 home of Ralph
Vaughan Williams 1872-1958. 'Composer lived here from 1953 until his death'
13 home of H.G.
Wells and where he died – a tetchy old man with a blaring radio. Previously the
home of poet Alfred Noyes.
17 home of
novelist Wilkie Collins – inspiration for the Woman in White was a young
woman met one moonlight night in the park who later became his girlfriend. Later the home of Edward Gosse, author of Father
and Son.
Harwood Avenue
St. Edward's
Convent
Huntsworth Mews
Ivor Place
The best pre-Victorian survivals in
progress in the 1820s and still complete, although with added top floors, etc. Tall terraces, with centres and ends projecting
Glentworth Street
68 Eliot
98 Eliot
Gloucester Place
The best pre-Victorian survivals in
progress in the 1820s and still complete, although with added top floors, etc. Tall terraces, with centres and ends
projecting. Line
of the Tyburn. Tube underneath. Built about 1810 and
preserving some of its old lamp-brackets.
34 Monkhouse
62 was 18 Mary Anne Clarke
48 John Godley
57 Dickens
rented this in 1857 while working on Our Mutual Friend
65 plaque to William Wilkie Collins which says 'novelist, lived here'. Born in
London,
99 plaque to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861. The plaque says 'poet, lived here' . the family lived here
when they first came to London. Plaque
erected 1924.
Ivor Court
Rossmore Court flats
117 plaque to
Gerald Kelly, which says 'Portrait Painter lived here'. Gerald Festus
Kent Terrace
10, plaque to Ernest Howard
Shepard which says ‘painter and
Illustrator lived here.' it was as the
illustrator of A. A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows" that he made his name.. Plaque erected 1993.
Linthorpe Street
The best pre-Victorian survivals in
progress in the 1820s and still complete, although with added top floors, etc. Tall terraces, with centres and ends
projecting. Some modish 1970s town
houses a one side
Lisson Grove
‘Lisson Grove’ is first on record in the late 18th century
and preserves the name of the ancient manor of ‘Lilestone’ 1086 in the Domesday
Book. Lisson, 'Lille's estate or
farm'. Was called Nightingale Lane and was a lane into the old village from Kilburn, which began to expand after the building of the New Road in the 18th. The posher bit of the village was south of
this with stuccoed houses from the late 18th while the northern part of Lisson Grove became
slummy and full of bad characters and many Irish immigrants.. Cosmopolitan street.
Manor House flats block, imaginative, free style, 1903
Pilasters to
its centre
31-35 Lisson Grove. This is an unexpected building to find in
Marylebone:
35 Lisson Grove dining rooms
became the Sea Shell fish shop.
Now relocated
116 plaque to ‘Benjamin Haydon 'painter, and John
Charles Felix Rossi sculptor lived here'.
Haydon, lived here in part of the house that Charles Rossi the sculptor
had built. Plaque erected 1959.
Sea Shell fish bar corner of Shorton Street
Lisson /Bell Street
galleries. This is actually two
merged galleries. The first, in Lisson Street, is a conversion completed a few
years ago by Fretton; the second has taken an empty site around the corner, in
Bell Street.
Lisson Grove offices and
flats. This small development is a
conversion of three plots in a late Georgian terrace in Lisson Grove. It
includes the comer junction with Bell Street where the architect has taken the
opportunity offered by conversion work to provide a modernist reinterpretation.
White lead manufactory towards the
north.
Marylebone
‘Maryburne’ in 1453,’ Marybourne’ 1492, ‘Marybon’ 1542,
‘Marylebone’ 1626, that is - place by -
St Mary's stream', from Old English ‘burno’ and with reference to the
dedication of the church built in the 15th century. It is to be noted that the
medial ‘Ie’ is intrusive and dates only from the 17th century. It was probably
introduced on the analogy of other names like St Mary-le-Bow where it has a
loose connective sense. This ‘ie’ is usually sounded now in current
pronunciations of the name, 'Marylebon' or 'Marlibon'. The earlier name of the
settlement which was houses along the road to Primrose Hill was ‘Tiburne’ 1086
in the Domesday Book, ‘Teyborne’ 1312, ‘Tyborne’ 1490, so called from the
original name of the stream here, the Tyburn, first recorded as ‘Teoburnan’ -
'the boundary stream' from Old English ‘teo‘ and ‘burna’. In an Anglo-Saxon
charter of 959 it formed the boundary between the manors of Ebury and
Westminster.
Area was Marylebone Park and forest Henry VIII's
hunt. Leased to Duke of Portland in
1791. Commission into its neglect in
1796. 1810 Portland lease expired and
Nash and Leverton asked to prepare development plans
Willan's Farm
Marylebone Park Farm, 153 acres. South of it was Gravell
Pit Field with gravel extraction.
Western boundary was Hill Field and beyond it Sedge or Flatt Field.
Footpath to Barrow Hill and Tyburn as a field boundary
Melcombe Street
Melcombe is a Portman family owned property near Taunton.
Abbey Building Society, clock tower 150', opened 18th
March 1932 by Ramsey McDonald when Prime Minister Michael House, corner Dorset
Street, 1913, HQ Imperial War Graves Commission now Marks and Spencer
Classic Cinema 1935, North Bank
9 Collins
21 George Elliot living with G.H. Lewes
Mulready Street
Outer Circle
The road goes uphill a little past
Grove House, passes the old boundary of Hill Field beyond which lay Sedge Field
and Sparrowhawk Wood.
Park Road
Leading from Baker Street to St.
John's Wood Station, has recently been much widened, and the west side is now
mostly lined with handsome blocks of flats.
125 'Washing
machine on the park' west side and co-ownership. flats for a housing association, cheaply built but with an pit and
service core surrounded by flexibly planned rooms. By Fan & Grimshaw, 1968-70.
145 Strathmore Bookshop Ltd.
23 Jose de San Martin
35 Rudolf Steiner House. By
Montague Wheeler, 1926, 1932, and an extension of 1937, Bookshop. Expressionist architecture.
44-76 newcomers in the centre of a tattered row of
terrace houses bounding reconstituted in 1977-8? By Westwood, Piet, Poole & Son by a mixture of repair
and rebuilding.
72 Business Bookshop
Abbey Lodge. Close to Hanover Gate, is a new block of flats
six storeys high, faced with red brick, with stone dressings and erected in
1933. Replaced the villa whose name it bears. The villa was home from 1851 till
1903 of Baron and Baroness de Bunseiuld – he was a German nobleman, and she the
daughter of the banker, Samuel Gumey, who in 1840 visited Germany with his
sister, Elizabeth Fry, on a tour of the prisons there, taking his daughter with
him. An acquaintance was made which eventually developed into a romance and the
young couple were given Abbey Lodge, which adjoined Samuel Gurney's house at 20
Hanover Terrace, as a wedding present
Ivor Court on the north-west corner of Upper Gloucester
Place, erected in 1934.
Regent's Court Prominent amongst
these flats
Rossmore Court, a ten-storey building at the corner of
Rossmore Road. erected in 1934
Shops long row of mean-looking houses, with shops on
the ground floor, extending from the top of Baker Street to the junction of
Upper Gloucester Place. .
Winsor Castle and Kent Passage bowed and battlemented. Neatly punctuates the end
Park Terrace
Plympton Street
Prince Albert Road
St.Mark’s church. 1851, ragstone reordered galleries by
Blomfield. Tall wide bleak nave. Blomfield chancel. Grand reredos, monuments
Grove
House also known as Nuffield Lodge by 1823. Burton
house by the canal as it enters the Park. Built in 1823 for George Bellas Greenhough, a
natural scientist, and the first president of the Geological Society. . George Greenough who approached James Burton with a view to
taking a lease on a villa in the park. Burton and Nash were too busy to
undertake a new project but suggested that Burton's son, Decimus, should be the
architect. Decimus Burton had served six years, mainly in his father's office,
and this was to be his first important commission. The site chosen was three
acres in the strip of land isolated from the park by the Regent's Canal, and
here he built Grove House in 1822—24. It can be seen on the left of the towing
path in the well-kept grounds just inside the Park. It was leased by the Midland Bank Ltd. for the use of its Chairman and in
1953 it became the Headquarters of the Nuffield Foundation, and its name was
changed to Nuffield Lodge. The gardens are under the management of the
botanical research department of University College. The Nuffield Foundation
has vacated the property
Gardens managed by London University Botanical Research
Dept. George Greennough wanted one and Decimus Burton, James Burton's son,
built it - his first commission
Regents Park
Nash accepted and Regent liked it so it was called
'Regent's Park'. Managed by HM Office of
Works. Designed Nash 1810-1828. Nash and Burton built the villas
Tyburn flowing
through the park and becomes the artificial ponds for a bit. Joined by a Tributary from the zoo, near site
of Wellin's Farm
Bandstand. This
was the scene of the IRA bomb attack in 1982 in which seven Royal Green Jackets
bandsmen were killed.
Winding lake 22 acres 1867
skating accident so depth reduced 40 drowned under the American ambassadors
house, problems of building the lake.
South
Villa became Bedford College part of London University. Now a privately owned American liberal arts
college. Bedford College, which was founded in 1849 by
Elizabeth Jesser Reid who lived at 21 York Terrace. The college outgrew its
premises in Bedford Square and acquired in 1908, a lease of South Villa, which,
with the exception of one entrance lodge, was demolished and the present
academic buildings put up. But South Villa stood on the site of something still
older - the main farmhouse of what had been Marylebone Farm. The house might
have been built first for Sir William Clarke who, during the Civil War, was
first Cromwell's and then General Monck's secretary but who, along with his
second master at the Restoration, became the king's man and was mortally
wounded at the Battle of Harwich against the Dutch in 1666. He had a house in
the Park which was left empty on his death and may very well have been taken
over by the leading farmer in the neighbourhood. At the beginning of the
eighteenth century it was owned by a farmer called George Daggett, who was
always quarrelling with his neighbours, stopping up rights of way, shooting
night-soil where it had no business to be, falling behind with his rent, and
generally making a nuisance of himself. He was succeeded by William Francis
whose widow, Jane, went bankrupt during the great cattle plague of 1745 so that
her creditors could only be paid 2s 4d in the pound on what she owed. The farm
eventually passed to the Willans, father and son, who added the surrounding
fields to it until it became the largest farm in Middlesex.
Longbridge.
The
Holme. Became student accommodation. 4-acre garden
filled with interesting and unusual plants.
The
first villa to be erected in the Park. It was built for Nash's supporter, James
Burton, a builder who was responsible for the financing and building of much of
Regent Street and many of the terraces and villas. The architect was his son,
Decimus, who designed it when only eighteen years of age
Winfield House the private residence of the American
Ambassador to London.built by Barbara Hutton and
offered to the US Ambassador so owned by the US Government. Palatial
modern mansion built for her as the former Countess Haugwitz von Reventlow, of
which the private grounds were exceeded in size only by those of Buckingham
Palace. Site of Hertford Villa built by Decimus Burton in 1825 for the
Marquess of Hertford who in 1830, purchased the clock with the striking figures
of Gog and Magog from St Dunstan's church in Fleet Street and installed it in
the garden, naming the villa after it - changed name to
St Dunstan's House. He became the
‘Caliph of Regent's Park’. Then owned by
Aldenham merchant banker, then Otto Hahn banker. From
1916 to 1921, it housed a training centre for those blinded during the war and
in its turn gave the name to that noble association. Then, in 1934, Lord
Rothermere occupied the villa and gave the old clock back to St Dunstan's
church where it can be seen today in good working order. The villa was
demolished in 1937 and the present house built.
Chilianwalla memorial
Hanover Lodge. At the end of Lodge
Road. 1820s. Later part of Bedford College.
Plaque to Thomas Cochrane and Earl Beatty which say ‘Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
(1775-1860) 'and later David, Earl
Beatty, OM (1871-1936), admirals, lived here'
Block of students' one-room flats which overlook the
canal
Loudon protest against tasteless planting of separate
trees
Hanover Gate 1903 and Old ?? Of St.John's Church. Three flats
London Islamic Centre
in North Villa; became Islamic Cultural Centre and now Mosque 1977. Burnished copper dome
1740s eastern section was White House Farm, byres and
eight fields, and Coneyburrow Farm.
Lodge Field in the area. Salt
Petre Field and Dupper Field with a gravel pit
Salisbury Street
Flats characteristic earlier type of balcony-access
flats for the St Marylebone Housing Association by E.W. Barnfield.
Portman Day Nursery 1937 by Howard Robertson, socially progressive
for the time roof-top playground, laundry, and canteen
65 built as a furniture factory. 1938 by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners and
colourful neo-art-deco revamping dates form 1985 by Terry Farrell & Co.,
when it was converted for light industrial and office units.
St. John’s Wood High Street
Church
Lords Station. 13th
April 1868. Built by the Metropolitan
Railway. On the south side of St.John’s Wood Road at the junction with Park
Road opened as St.John’s Wood Road. In
1925 it was rebuilt and renamed St.John’s Wood. In 1939 it was renamed Lords
and then closed
St.Marylebone Western School
2 Maugham
Sussex Place
By Nash, 1822. with little cupolas and a large garden
between it and the road. It enjoys the best view across the lake in the whole
Park and looks as if Nash were using up design left over from the Pavilion at
Brighton.
25 home of Cyril
Connolly, critic
Taunton Place
10 Collins
Wellington Road
municipal and pavement-side planting. impressive foliage
planting outside the station entrance, and there are some well planted gardens
around blocks of flats on the left and the balconies of Wellington
Hospital on the right,
St. John's Wood Chapel site with burial
ground. An
amalgam of formal municipal planting, children's playground and wildlife
garden, all in 6 acres of still-consecrated ground where ancient graves are
half hidden among the cow parsley and ragged robin. The main wildlife area has
a thistle meadow to encourage goldfinches, Managed by Vestry of
St.Marylebone
War memorial at
the Roundabout - depicting St
George and the Dragon, to the memory of those from St Marylebone who died in
the two World Wars.
Wyndham Place
This is the culmination of adjacent
Bryanston Square on the right and designed to complete the vista to the north,
however, trees have grown to maturity and interrupt the view.
St.Mary’s
Church
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