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Bedford Square from the BT Tower in 1966 Bedford Square (2005) Panorama of Bedford Square. Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord Chancellors, who lived in the largest house in the square for many years. [1]
Bedford Square, Bloomsbury WC1B 3RA: House: 18th century: 24 October 1951: 1244548: Numbers 28–38 Bedford Square and attached railings: Numbers 40–54 Bedford Square and attached railings Bedford Square, Bloomsbury WC1B 3RA: Terrace: 1776–81: 24 October 1951
Entrance to the Bedford Estate office in Montague Street Looking north across Bloomsbury Square on the Bedford Estate with Bedford House behind, c. 1725, London town house of the Dukes of Bedford Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, statue by Richard Westmacott in Russell Square on the Bedford Estate John Norden's map of 1593 map, showing the Bedford Covent Garden Estate not long after it was ...
Green plaque at Bedford Square, London. The college was founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid (née Sturch) in 1849, a social reformer and anti-slavery activist, who had been left a private income by her late husband, Dr John Reid, which she used to patronise various philanthropic causes.
The office is located at 18 Bedford Square in the City of Westminster in central London; [2] the building also houses the London office of the London Representative Office of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Hong Kong Tourism Board. It was previously located at 6 Grafton Street. Former office at 6 Grafton Street
James Burton was born in Strand, London, as James Haliburton, on 29 July 1761. [1] [2] He was the son of William Haliburton (1731–1785), [1] who was a Scottish [2] [3] property-developer whose family were from Roxburghshire, [1] [4] and of Mary Foster (who was previously Mary Johnson; 1735–1785), whom his father married in 1760.
In 1917, it moved to its current location in Bedford Square, central London, and has since acquired additional London premises in John Street, a property on Morwell Street behind Bedford Square, [10] and a 350-acre (1.4 km 2) site at Hooke Park in Dorset.
The Morrells maintained a townhouse in Bedford Square [16] in Bloomsbury and also owned a country house at Peppard, near Henley on Thames. Selling the house at Peppard in 1911, they subsequently bought and restored Garsington Manor near Oxford. Morrell delighted in opening both as havens for like-minded people.