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Albion Mews, a mews which runs off Albion Street. Albion Street is a residential street located in Central London in the City of Westminster. Part of the Tyburnia area, it runs southwards from Connaught Street to the Bayswater Road on the edge of Hyde Park. It is notable for its Regency architecture.
A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them, built behind large city houses before motor vehicles replaced horses in the early twentieth century. Mews are usually located in desirable residential areas, having been built to cater for the horses, coachmen and stable-servants of prosperous residents.
The Sowetan never was a free sheet as it was never published before this date. The name was registered at the time with the intention to publish at a rather huge cost. It was one of more titles registered as a backup at the time. Initial sales were slow because people wrongly assumed that The Sowetan had only news from Soweto.
Devonshire Mews East on Richard Horwood's map, 1813 edition. The Close was laid out in the 1770s [1] and was known as Devonshire Mews East [2] until 1934. [1] It is one of a number of "Devonshire" streets in the vicinity and like Devonshire Street, from which it is accessed, derived its name from Dorothy Cavendish, later Duchess of Portland, daughter of the 4th Duke of Devonshire.
Adjacent to the street is the smaller St Petersburgh Mews, which runs parallel northwards to Moscow Road. St Petersburgh Place is noted for its two places of worship, the Anglican parish church of St Matthew's, Bayswater , and the Jewish New West End Synagogue , both of which are listed buildings.
The Royal Mews is a mews, or collection of equestrian stables, of the British royal family. In London these stables and stable-hands' quarters have occupied two main sites in turn, being located at first on the north side of Charing Cross , and then (since the 1820s) within the grounds of Buckingham Palace .
Douglas Kelson Mews (22 September 1918 – 1993) was a Canadian-born composer, organist and church musician who worked in England and New Zealand. He taught composing at the University of Auckland from 1969 to 1983.
The street runs from the junction of Homer Row and Crawford Place in the west to the junction of Baker Street and Paddington Street in the east. From west to east, the street is crossed by Seymour Place, Wyndham Place, Upper Montagu Street, Durweston Street/Montagu Mews North, Gloucester Place, Montagu Mansions and Durweston Mews/Montagu Row.