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Regency Cafe opened in 1946 on Regency Street, London, near to the borders of Westminster and Pimlico. [1] It was sold by the original owners to Antonio Perotti and Gino Schiavetta in 1986. [2] It is now run by Antonio's daughter, Claudia and Gino's son Marco. [1] [3] The interior tiling is original, [4] while the tables are newer and Formica ...
St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster, central London. A Royal Park, it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less, now the site of St James's Palace. The area was initially enclosed for a deer park near the ...
Haymarket, 2006. Haymarket is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London.It runs from Piccadilly Circus in the north to Pall Mall at the southern end. . Located on the street are the Theatre Royal, His Majesty's Theatre, New Zealand House, a cinema complex and restaura
St James's Place is a street in the St James's district of London near Green Park. [1] It was first developed around 1694, the historian John Strype describing it in 1720 as a "good Street ... which receiveth a fresh Air out of the Park; the Houses are well-built, and inhabited by Gentry ..." [2] [3] Henry Benjamin Wheatley wrote in 1870 that ...
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.
Street sign for Duke Street, St James's, SW1. Duke Street, St James's viewed from Piccadilly. Duke Street, St James's is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from Piccadilly in the north to King Street in the south, and is crossed by Jermyn Street. Ryder Street joins it on the western side.
St James's Street is the principal street in the district of St James's, central London. It runs from Piccadilly downhill to St James's Palace and Pall Mall . The main gatehouse of the Palace is at the southern end of the road; in the 17th century, Clarendon House faced down the street across Piccadilly from the site of what is now Albemarle ...
After the Restoration and King Charles II's return to London on 29 May 1660, another pall-mall court was constructed in St James's Park just south of the wall, on the site of The Mall. [3] Samuel Pepys 's diary entry for 2 April 1661 records: "[I] went into St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York playing at Pelemele, the first time that ...