W1, Old Bond Street, 28
This arcade has two addresses, one at each end: 28 Old Bond Street and 12 Albermarle Street. The decorative facade, including the relief bust of Queen Victoria seems identical at both ends. Built in 1879, her 60th year, the relief still shows a young woman - that's how to attract a very desirable customer. Ornamental Passions has a good entry on this building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royal Arcade - Victoria
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
Building erected in 1883 by George Attenborough for his jewellery and pawn-broking business, Attenborough and Sons. Architects: Archer an...
c.2012: Brought to our attention by Clive Yelf on his always interesting blog, Faded London which seems to have folded. Wanting to establ...
In the early 1900s Moncure Conway retired to Paris, where he met and became good friends with sculptor Spicer Simson, still in the early...
These 10 portrait mosaics are the result of a project by Morley College to celebrate the achievements of significant women who have lived...
There are actually 2 busts (identical we think): one facing into the square and one facing out on the traffic.
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