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Chesterfield Street is a "virtually intact" Georgian street (except for No. 6, which is a reconstruction) [1] in London's Mayfair district. Several of the buildings are Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England .
Claridge's was founded in 1812 as Mivart's Hotel, in a conventional London terraced house, and it grew by expanding into neighbouring houses.In 1854, the founder (the father of biologist St. George Jackson Mivart) sold the hotel to a Mr and Mrs Claridge, who owned a smaller hotel next door.
Telephones on automatic exchanges had letters as well as numbers marked on the telephone dial, and calls to London numbers used the first three letters of the exchange name followed by four digits, e.g. EUS 1234. [2] The number could be dialled as 387-1234 or spoken to a manual exchange operator as Euston 1234.
Among the listed buildings in the street are parts of Flemings Mayfair Hotel and Green Park Hotel. Other listed buildings include numbers 6, [ 2 ] 7 and 8, [ 3 ] 12a, [ 4 ] 14, [ 5 ] 15, [ 6 ] 24, [ 7 ] and 25.
Dartmouth House is a Georgian house in Mayfair, central London, England. It now serves as the headquarters of the English-Speaking Union (ESU), an educational charity. [1] It is located at 37 Charles Street, southwest of Berkeley Square. Over 40,000 people use the building each year. [2]
Sketch is a restaurant at 9 Conduit Street in Mayfair, London, England, which opened in 2003. The restaurant is owned by Mourad Mazouz, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the head chef is Pierre Gagnaire . [ 4 ] The cuisine is described as ' New French ', and is a loose adaptation of the cuisine served in Gagnaire's three Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris and ...
Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in Mayfair, London.It was originally a private English Baroque and then Neo-Palladian mansion owned by the Earls of Burlington.It was significantly expanded in the mid-19th century after being purchased by the British government.