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  2. St James's - Wikipedia

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    St James's was once part of the same royal park as Green Park and St. James's Park.In the 1660s, Charles II gave the right to develop the area to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans who developed it as a predominantly aristocratic residential area around a grid of streets centred on St James's Square.

  3. St James's Club - Wikipedia

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    The St James's Club was a London gentlemen's club which operated between 1857 and 1978. It was founded by two leading diplomats and its members continued to be largely diplomats and authors. It was first established in Bennet Street, and after a brief spell in Mayfair, moved to 106 Piccadilly by 1868.

  4. List of members' clubs in London - Wikipedia

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    St James's St Tory. Members inc Byron & Gibbon closed 1932 Commonwealth Club: 1868 25 Northumberland Avenue formerly headquarters of the Royal Commonwealth Society: Closed June 2013. The RCS still exists as a charity. Conservative Club: 1840 88 St James's Street (1841–1845); 74 St James's Street (1841–1950) Political; Conservative

  5. Mayfair - Wikipedia

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    Mayfair consisted mainly of open fields until development began in the Shepherd Market area around 1686–88 to accommodate the May Fair, which had moved from Haymarket in St James's because of overcrowding. [3] There were some buildings before 1686. A cottage in Stanhope Row, dating from 1618, was destroyed in the Blitz in late 1940. [13]

  6. White's - Wikipedia

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    White's is a gentlemen's club in St James's, London. Founded in 1693 as a hot chocolate shop in Mayfair, it is London's oldest club [1] and therefore the oldest private members' club in the world. It moved to its current premises on St James's Street in 1778.

  7. St James's Square - Wikipedia

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    St James's Square is the only square in the St James's district of the City of Westminster and is a garden square. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential streets in London.

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