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| Name | Trade | Address | founded | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Bank | Threadneedle St. | 1734 - | |||
| Bank of Sloane | Bank | |||||
| Barclay's | bank | Lombard St. | moved in 1728 | 1728- | ||
| Child's | bank | 1 Fleet St. next to Temple Bar since 1673 | 1580's as goldsmith | began as bank in 1660's | 1681 - | |
| Coutts & Co. | bank | 59 Strand since 1720 | 1692 - present | |||
| Drummond's | bank | East side of Charing Cross | goldsmith in 1712 | 1717- | ||
| Hoare's | bank | 37 Fleet St. since 1690 | Golden Bottle goldsmith in Cheapside | 1673 | ||
| Lloyd's | bank | Lombard St. | Barnett, Hoare, Hanbury & Lloyd | founded in Birmingham | 1756- | |
| Rothschild | bank | New Court & St. Swithin's Lane since 1809 | 1806 - present |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. James | Church | between Piccadilly at about 200 & 40? Jerymn |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamack's | Club | 20? King Street | Wednesday subscription balls | |||
| Albany | lodging | Piccadilly between Burlington House & No. 52 |
Bachelor flats | Former residence of D.of York | St. James | 1802 |
| Beefsteak Society | above Covent Garden Theatre | |||||
| Boodle's | Club | St. James St. | Gentleman's Club | |||
| Brook's | Club | St. James St. | Gentleman's Club | 1778 to | ||
| Cheshire Cheese | Tavern | Wine Office Court | Favorite haunt of Dr. Johnson | |||
| Cocoa Tree | ||||||
| Gentleman Jackson's | boxing saloon | 13 Bond St. | boxing saloon | |||
| Kit Kat Club | ||||||
| Star&Garter | Tavern | Pall Mall | Meeting Place for many Clubs | |||
| Vauxhall | garden | fetes, clandestine meetings | ||||
| White's | Club | St. James St. | gambling, bow window | Aristocratic Gentleman's Club w\Tory affiliation | St. James | ? |
| Cock Pit Royal | cock fighting | Hyde Park | ||||
| Cock Pit | cock fighting | Gray's Walk | admission=tip 5s | |||
| Cock Pit | cock fighting | Jenny's Whim Tea Garden |
| Name | Address or Locale | Description | Famous for | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park | Park Lane | large open green w\paths for driving and walking, Serpentine 1730 | fashionable hour fete in 1814 | opened to public in 17th century |
| Kensington Gardens | adjoining Hyde Park | Formal Dutch garden until Queen Anne altered it | Temple by Kent | opened to public by George II |
| Green Park | between St James & Hyde Park Corner | Open lawns and tree lined walks | maple & lime trees fete in 1814 | |
| St. James | between palace and Whitehall | lawn until Nash added lake and flowerbeds in 1828 | mulberry trees fete in 1814 | opened to public in 1662 |
| Kew | botanical gardens | Chinese Pagoda, White House (Royal residence before 1802), Queen Charlotte added cottage | 1759 on Princess Augusta's estate, opened to public in 1897 | |
| Richmond Park | East of Town | 2470 acres, oaks, lakes, deer | excellent view of Thames | |
| Tea Garden | Site of King's Cross Station | |||
| Tea Garden | Pancras Wells | |||
| Adam and Eve | tea garden | cows\cream | ||
| Marylebone Gardens | harmony and decorum | until 1826 | ||
| Vauxhall | Surrey on Thames | walks, pavilion, & supper boxes | fetes, lighting, & fireworks | |
| Regent's Park | Developed by Nash, paths, clearings, cricket fields | buns and ginger beer | opened to public in 1838 | |
| Mulberry Gardens | ||||
| Ranelagh Gardens | Chelsea near Pensioner's Hospital | until 1804 | ||
| Vine | built over in 18th century | |||
| Elm court | built over in 18th century | |||
| Fig Tree Ct. | built over in 18th century | |||
| Green Arbour Ct. | built over in 18th century | |||
| Holburn & Bunhill Row | built over in 18th century | |||
| Neat House Gardens | between Lupus St. & River | |||
| Black Heath | golf course |
| Name | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedlam | Lambeth Rd | Mental hospital | |||
| Foundling Hospital | Orphans | ||||
| Middlesex Hospital | Charles St. 5? | ||||
| St. George's | Mount St. | Workhouse | Mayfair | ||
| St. James | Poland St. | Infirmary | |||
| St. Katherine's | Knightsbridge | ||||
| Trinity House |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admiralty | Navy | |||||
| Bank of England | Threadneedle St. after 1734 | 1694-present | ||||
| Bow Street | crime prevention | 11 Bow St. near Covent Garden | runners, started by Fielding | brain child of John Fielding, the "blind beak" | 1751 | |
| Customs House | 1715- | |||||
| Doctor's Commons | licenses | |||||
| Horseguard Headquarters | Army | Whitehall | ||||
| Middlesex Hospital | ||||||
| Post Office | St. Martin's | |||||
| Royal Mint | ||||||
| House of Commons | Legislation | St. Stephen's Chapel in Palace of Westminster | ||||
| House of Lords | ||||||
| Old Bailey | Crown Court | rebuilt in 1774 | 1539- present | |||
| Board of Trade | Treasury building at Whitehall | 1696 | ||||
| Royal Exchange | Threadneedle St. | 1566 | ||||
| Stock Exchange | a triangular site between Threadneedle Street, Throgmorton Street and Old Broad Street | 1802- | ||||
| Lloyds | Insurance Underwriter for sea ventures | In Royal Exchange on Threadneedle | 1771-present | |||
| Corn Exchange | at Mark Lane after 1750 | extension in 1827 | ||||
| Prime Minister's residence | 10 Downing St. | Gift from George II to Sir Robert Walpole. He refused it so it now belongs with the office | 1731-present |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.K. Newman's Minerva Library | Library/Printer | 1790-1820 | ||||
| Hatchard's | Bookseller | 187 Piccadilly | 173 until 1801 moved to 190 | Piccadilly opposite Albany | 1797 to present | |
| Hookham's | Circulating Library | 15 Old Bond St. | lending novels | Mayfair | 1798 | |
| Joseph Johnson | 72 St. Paul's Churchyard | Patronized by Paine, Woolstonecraft, Wordsworth, & Priestly | Published Thomas Paine under pseudonym | 1770-1809 | ||
| Charles Knight | Book Seller | Began publishing the Windsor & Eaton Express in 1812 | ||||
| Lindsell's | Bookseller | Wimpole St. | medals of Sir Sidney Smith for half a guinea each | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1807 | ||
| Williams | Westminster |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Academy | Pall Mall to 1771 & Somerset House until 1837 | Summer exhibition May to August | 1768 | |||
| Society of Arts | Covent Garden, moved to Strand | 1760 1st public exhibition | 1754 | |||
| Egyptian Hall | Bullocks Museum | Piccadilly | ||||
| National Society | 1811 | |||||
| Royal Lancastrian Institution | 1808 | |||||
| Society of Antiquaries | Chancery Ln until 1753, Somerset House 1777-1875 | 1751 | ||||
| Architectural Museum | Tufton St. | Westminster | ||||
| Royal Naval Museum | Greenwich | |||||
| Painted Hall | Nelson & other sea battles | |||||
| Sir John Soane | 12-14 Lincoln Inn Fields | Hogarth's works, show of Egyptian artifacts in 1806 | bequethed as Museum on his death in 1837 |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldbath Field's | correction house | Wells nearby | rebuilt in 1794 | |||
| Millbank Penitertiary | ||||||
| Newgate | Prison | London's chief Prison | rebuilt in 1770, 1783 gallows moved here from Tyburn | 1188- | ||
| King's Bench | Burough High St. | Southwark | ||||
| Fleet | 1750 became debtor's prison | Faringdon Rd. | 1197-1846 | |||
| Charing Cross | Pillory |
| Name | Address | Personal Associations | Other inhabitants | Style | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington House | Piccadilly | next to Albany | ||||
| Cambridge House | Palladian | Piccadilly | ||||
| Carlton House | Pall Mall | Prinny inherited in 1783 | Haymarket | |||
| 18 St. James Square | Castlereagh's House | |||||
| Chesterfield House | Park Ln. | Palladian | ||||
| Devonshire House | Palladian | Piccadilly | ||||
| 43 Grosvenor Sq. | Duchess of Kendall George I's mistress | |||||
| 9 Grosvenor Sq. | John Adams | Little America | ||||
| Lichfield House | St James Sq. | Palladian | ||||
| Lord Mayor's Mansion | Cannon St. behind St. Paul's Cathedral | Ludgate Hill | ||||
| Melbourne House | Piccadilly next to Whitehall | Piccadilly | ||||
| John Nash | 29 Dover St. | Palladian | Mayfair | 1798 | ||
| Northumberland House | ||||||
| Somerset House | East of Westminster Bridge on North Bank | |||||
| Spencer House | St James Pl. | Palladian | ||||
| 20 St James Sq. | Adam | |||||
| 20 Portman Sq. | Adam | |||||
| 44 Berkeley Sq. | Palladian | |||||
| 11 Bow St | Henrey Fielding & Bow Street Runners | |||||
| 17 Gough Square | Dr. Johnson | |||||
| Thomas Hope | Duchess St. | Hope was an antiquarian & one of the founders of the Dilettanti Society | ||||
| 36 Craven St. | Benjamin Franklin | 1761- | ||||
| Warwick House | Coxspur behind Carleton House | Princess Charlotte |
| Name | Address | Important facts | Principal actors & c. | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astley's Amphitheatre | South | ||||
| Coberg | Montcrieff | South | 1820-1831 | ||
| Covent Garden | fire in 1808 reopened in 1809, became opera house in 1847 | 1733- | |||
| Drury Lane | burned 1672, burned 1809 and reopened 1812 | Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Nell Gwynne, Kemble, Kean, Young | 1663- | ||
| Lyceum | Wellington St and the Strand | became theatre 1834 | 1765 | ||
| Olympic | Wych St. | built from old men-'o-war ships, burned 1849 | |||
| Pantheon | Oxford St. | ||||
| Sanspareil | 411 Strand | Renamed Adelphi in 1820, rebuilt in 1858 | Bedford, Wright, Yates, Mme Celeste, Miss Woolgar | The Strand | 1806- |
| St. James | King Street | built for the singer Barham | 1835 | ||
| Theatre Royale | burned 1820, reopened in 1822 | Colman, Foote, Fielding, Webster | Haymarket | 1720- | |
| Opera House | Haymarket | ||||
| Royal Circus | South | ||||
| Royal | East | ||||
| Sans Souci | West | ||||
| Sadler's Wells | North London | ||||
| English Opera House | North London |
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