The annual 15 day May Fair used to be held at the Haymarket but in 1686 it moved to the site of Curzon Street and Shepherd Market. About 100 years later it was suppressed by the local residents, mainly nobility, who objected to it.
Large sections of this and the surrounding area, now known as Mayfair, has been owned by the Grosvenor family since 1677.
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
From City of London : The Pool of London Partnership was established in 1996 and operated in an area stretching East from London Bridge to the Butler's Wharf / St. Katherine's Dock area and include...
Lord George Cavendish, the future Earl of Burlington, commissioned the architect Samuel Ware to design this covered shopping arcade. He also founded the Burlington Arcade Beadles, recruited from hi...
Former slave and businessman. Born in Senegal, (his birth year is approximate). At the age of about six, he was bought and taken to England, where he was presented as a servant to Sir John Phillipp...
Chairman of HMV Shops Limited in 1984. If the web is anything to go by, unveiling the Nipper plaque is the only significant action Johnson ever took.
Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Author and teacher. Born in Brighton. A prolific writer of novels, mainly for girls. From 1906 to 1935, she worked as a teacher and housemistress at the High School for Girls, Loughton. We cannot f...
"Johnners", For nearly fifty years he was the voice of cricket on BBC television and radio. Born Hertfordshire. Died London.
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