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References

ABBREVIATIONS

ABN Architect & Building News

Adburgham Alison Adburgham, Shops and Shopping 1800–

1914, 1981 edn

AJ Architects’ Journal

APSD The Dictionary of Architecture, issued by the

Architectural Publication Society, 8 vols, 1851–92

AR Architectural Review

B The Builder, from 1966 Building

BA British Architect

Barker & Robbins T. C. Barker & Michael Robbins, A History of

London Transport, 1963 (vol. 1) and 1974 (vol. 2)

BD Building Design

BDCE Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, 3 vols,

2002–14

Beard & Gilbert Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660–1840,

1986

BL British Library

BM British Museum

BN Building News

CL Country Life

Collage The London Picture Archive of the London

Metropolitan Archives

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Colvin Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British

Architects 1600–1840, 4th edn, 2008

DBB Dictionary of Business Biography, 5 vols, 1984–6

DSR District Surveyors’ Returns in London


FT Financial Times

HdeW Howard de Walden Estate

HE Historic England

HEA Historic England Archive

Honeycombe Gordon Honeycombe, Selfridges, 1984

JLA John Lewis Archives

JLG John Lewis Gazette

Land Tax Land Tax assessments at London Metropolitan

Archives (MR/PLT)

LCC Mins Printed Minutes of the London County Council

LMA London Metropolitan Archives

LT London Transport

MBW Mins Printed Minutes of the Metropolitan Board of

Works

MDR Middlesex Deeds Registry in London


Morrison Kathryn Morrison, English Shops and Shopping,

2003

ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

PEA Portman Estate Archives

POD Post Office and other directories

RB St Marylebone ratebooks, Westminster City

Archives

RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects

RO Record Office

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Roscoe Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & M. G. Sullivan, A

Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660–

1851, 2009

SA Selfridges Archives

StMBC Mins Printed Minutes of St Marylebone Borough

Council

Sheppard F. H. W. Sheppard, Local Government in St

Marylebone 1688–1835, 1958

Tallis Tallis’s London Street Views, c.1839

TNA The National Archives

UBD Universal British Directory, 1793–8

V & A Victoria and Albert Museum

WCA Westminster City Archives

WDP Westminster drainage plans at Westminster City

Archives

WP Westminster Planning Records online

Introduction

1. Ivan D. Margary, Roman Roads in Britain, 1973 edn, pp. 53–7: Sheppard, pp.

57–8: F. Celoria, ‘Traces of a Possible East–West Roman Road Surface Noted

near London’s Marble Arch’, in London Studies, Topography, Archaeology,

Folklife, no. 1, 1974, pp. 98–103

2. Ann Saunders, Regent’s Park, 1981 edn, pp. 16, 161–2: Survey of London, vol.

51, 2017, p. 147

3. Alfred Marks, Tyburn Tree, 1908: V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree, 1994,

pp. 31–4

4. Sheppard, p. 58

5. Thomas Pennant, Some Account of London, 1813 edn, p. 170

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6. The Post Man, 29–31 Aug 1700, 25–27 April 1707: The Tatler, 7–9 Sept 1710:

Evening Post, 12–14 May 1713

7. Pratt map of Marylebone, 1708: Weekly Journal, 18 July 1719, 24 April & 1

May 1725: WCA, Ashbridge 160/OXF: Survey of London, vol. 39, 1977, plate 1:

H. E. Popham, The Taverns in the Town, 1937, p. 46

8. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. 1, 1860,

pp. 328–9: Philip E. Jones, ‘The Estates of the Corporation of London’,

Guildhall Miscellany, vol. 1, 1952–9, no. 7, pp. 10–11: WCA, Ashbridge 145.4

9. WCA, Ashbridge 145.4

10. Flying Post, 7–9 Oct 1712: Weekly Journal, 11 April 1719

11. Sheppard, p. 58: Survey of London, vol. 39, 1977, plate 1

12. Sheppard, pp. 52–8, 132–3: MBW Mins, 2 Jan 1857, p. 9, 6 Feb 1857, pp. 89–

91, 6 March 1857, pp. 177–8

13. Survey of London, vol. 51, 2017, ill. 170

14. Sheppard, pp. 62–6: Philip E. Jones, ‘The Estates of the Corporation of

London’, Guildhall Miscellany, vol. 1, 1952–9, no. 7, pp. 12–14: Survey of London,

vol. 39, 1977, p. 171

15. HdeW Archives, 6/1: Richard Bowden, ‘”Silly Prejudices”, “Peevish

Obstinacy”, and “Knavery”: A Survey of Marylebone in 1738’, London

Topographical Record, vol. 29, 2006, pp. 116–7

16. Berners Estate records, building agreement of 26 May 1738: WCA, DD1224

etc.

17. Survey of London, vol. 39, 1977, p. 171

18. Gatrell, pp. 602–3

19. Sheppard, pp. 59–60, 132–3, 140: information from Colin Thom

20. Sophie in London, ed. Clare Williams, 1933, pp. 141–2

21. Report of a committee of the Vestry appointed to consider the Surveyor’s report of

the defective state of repair of the carriage-way of Oxford Street, 1837 (WCA,

f342.042151): Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1861–2 edn,

vol. 2, pp. 181–4

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22. Morning Post, 30 May 1842

23. The Examiner, 11 Nov 1838: WCA, Ashbridge 160

24. Newspapers passim, notably The Times, 25 Sept 1837, 10, 17 & 24 Sept

1838, 2 Dec 1839, 8 Oct 1844: Morning Chronicle, 28 Aug 1837, 10 Sept 1838:

Morning Post, 16 Oct 1837, 7 Nov 1838, 5 & 28 Jan 1839, 15 & 18 Oct 1844:

WCA, Ashbridge 160: also Alex B. Blackie, Wood Pavement, its Origins and

Progress, 1843

25. StMBC Mins, 9 Nov 1905, p. 14, 29 March 1906, p. 374, 10 May 1906, p. 447,

21 June 1906, pp. 528–9, 19 July 1906, p. 614

26. The Times, 8 Oct 1844

27. Barker & Robbins, vol. 1, pp. 25–7: Morning Post, 23 July 1833, 24 Jan 1843:

The Times, 8 Oct 1844

28. The Observer, 17 May 1846

29. Barker & Robbins, vol. 1, pp. 179–80

30. Daily News, 2 Jan 1864: see also The Standard, 31 Dec 1863: Morning Post, 6

Jan 1864: MBW Mins, 15 Jan 1864, pp. 60–1

31. TNA, RAIL1017/65: Daily News, 13 Dec 1884: Morning Post, 9 Jan 1885

32. The Standard, 24 Dec 1889: Survey of London, vol. 40, 1980, p. 178

33. Morning Post, 30 April, I May, 2 & 15 July 1890: The Standard, 1 May 1890

34. Barker & Robbins, vol. 2, pp. 36–47: B. G. Wilson & V. Stewart Haram, The

Central London Railway, 1950: Survey of London, vol. 40, 1980, p. 178: LMA,

Acc.1297/CLR1/1

35. LMA, Acc.1297/CLR1/1, 1/2

36. Barker & Robbins, vol. 2, pp. 111–3, 182–3: Wilson & Haram, p. 42:

Tramway and Railway World, 11 June 1914, pp. 442–4: LT Museum, notes on

Oxford Circus Station

37. Royal Commission on London Traffic, vol. 7, Report of the Advisory

Board of Engineers

38. Barker & Robbins, vol. 2, p. 184

39. Royal Commission on London Traffic, vol. 2, q. 12157

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40. Ibid., qq. 8078, 8138

41. Ibid., qq. 14516–21

42. Ibid., q. 6278

43. LCC Mins, 21 Jan 1908, pp. 46–7: Andrew Saint, ‘The Marble Arch’,

Georgian Group Journal, vol. 7, 1997, pp. 89–91

44. Sheppard, p. 203

45. LCC Mins, 27 Nov 1906, p. 1336: The Times, 23 Oct 1906, 5 Dec 1906, 16 Jan

1907: WCA, C138 (Municipal Journal, 22 May 1964)

46. The Times, 6 & 17 June 1931, 23 June to 17 July 1931, passim

47. Ibid., 29 July 1953, 23 & 30 Nov 1954, 5 March 1955

48. Kathryn A. Morrison & John Minnis, Carscapes, 2012, pp. 169–86: StMBC

Mins, 11 Dec 1930, pp. 65–7, 21 Feb 1935, p. 187: Survey of London, vol. 51,

2017, pp. 189, 396–7: Honeycombe, pp. 108–9

49. The Times, 3 April 1958, 15 April 1959, 21 July 1960

50. LCC Mins, 5 May 1959, p. 278: ABN, 24 Aug 1960, p. 231

51. The Times, 9 May, 4 Aug, 28 Nov and 1 & 12 Dec 1961: The Guardian, 4 Aug

1961

52. Official Architecture and Planning, April 1961, pp. 177–80: AJ, 23 & 30 March

1961, pp. 419–20, 457: Daily Telegraph, 23 March 1961: Municipal Journal, 7

April 1961

53. The Times, 27 Oct 1961

54. Chapman Taylor Partners, The Grosvenor Estate Strategy for Mayfair and

Belgravia, 1971: WCA, C138 (The Observer, 13 June 1971): Survey of London, vol.

39, 1977, pp. 80–1

55. The Times, 3 Oct 1971, 11 April 1973

56. WCA, C138 (Contract Journal, 10 June 1982: Building, 18 June 1982: City

Limits, 14 Jan 1983): The Times, 8 Feb & 24 Dec 1983: AJ newsletter, 2 Sept 2016

57. WCA, C138 (Westminster City Council Information Sheet, Sept 1971:

Evening Standard, 14 Dec 1971: The Guardian, 8 & 22 Dec 1971)

58. WCA, C138 passim: The Times, 22 March & 3 June 1972, 13 March 1974

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59. WCA, C138 (Municipal & Public Services Journal, 29 March 1974: Building,

12 July 1974, p. 113)

60. https://osd.london (2018)

61. Clare Williams, Sophie in London 1786, 1933, pp. 141–3

62. Quoted in Kathryn A. Morrison, English Shops and Shopping, 2003, pp. 41–2

63. The London Directory for the Year 1784

64. Graham Pollard, ed., The Earliest Directory of the Book Trade by John Pendred

(1785), 1955

65. John Carnelley, George Smart and Nineteenth-Century Concert Life, 2015, pp.

16–17: ODNB

66. Andrew Kahn, ‘Nikolai Karamzin, Letters of a Russian Traveller’, Studies

on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2003, p. 388

67. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1841 edn, p. 74.

The complete episode was reprinted as Thomas De Quincey, Ann of Oxford

Street, 1948

68. Morning Post, 4 July 1822

69. Kathryn Morrison, ‘Bazaars and Bazaar Buildings in Regency and

Victorian London’, in Georgian Group Journal, vol. 15, 2006, pp. 281–308

70. J. Spedan Lewis to C. H. Reilly, 29 May 1942, John Lewis Archives 3873

71. Horace W. C. Newte, Sparrows, The Story of an Unprotected Girl, 1909, p. 77

72. BN, 8 Oct 1886, p. 522

73. Dickens’s Dictionary of London, 1880 edn, p. 205

74. Charles Eyre Pasco, London, an Illustrated Guide to the Season, 1887

75. ABN, 9 Jan 1931, p. 81

76. Paul Cohen-Portheim, The Spirit of London, 1950 edn, p. 41

77. Ivor Brown, Winter in London, 1951, p. 38

78. FT, 20 May 1936

79. George Orwell’s Diaries, ed. Peter Davison, 2009, pp. 283–4

80. Life Magazine, 16 Dec 1940

81. The Times, 8 Feb 1940, 28 Nov 1986: FT, 4 July 1968

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82. AR, Feb 1957, pp. 105–11: see also Architectural Design, April 1957, pp. 212–

3

83. WCA, C138 (The Observer, 13 June 1971: Daily Telegraph, 23 June 1972:

Mayfair News, 8 April 1977)

84. The Times, 16 Jan 1985

85. Evening Standard, 11 June 2013

86. The West End Partnership, The West End, Delivery Plan 2015–2030

87. https://osd.london (2018)

88. Kathryn Cave, ed., The Diary of Joseph Farington, vol. 13, 1984, col. 4493

89. The Times, 15 & 16 Aug 1821

90. Morning Post, 21 July 1821

91. The Standard, 9 Sept 1831

92. The Standard, 29 June 1838

93. Daily News, 28 Feb 1872

94. Morning Post, 13 March 1874

95. Pall Mall Gazette, 20 June 1887

96. Daily News, 23 June 1897

97. StMBC Mins, 4 May 1911, p. 258, 14 May 1911, p. 294: The Times, 19, 24 &

30 June 1911

98. The Times, 15 March, 6 & 13 May 1935: StMBC Mins, 21 Feb 1935, p. 189, 11

April 1935, p. 308: Honeycombe, pp. 72–3, 81

99. StMBC Mins, 13 Oct 1936, pp. 596–7, 15 Oct 1936, p. 603, 21 Jan 1937, p.

157, 18 Feb 1937, p. 233: Westminster City Council Mins, 23 July 1936, pp.

421–2, 12 Nov 1936, pp. 577–8

100. Honeycombe, pp. 74, 80–1: Ernest Stern, My Life, My Stage, 1951, pp. 256–

7

101. The Times, 10 & 12 May, 2 Aug 1937

102. StMBC Mins, 29 Nov 1952, pp. 216–7, 18 Dec 1952, p. 250: Westminster

City Council Mins, 26 June 1952, pp. 122–3, 9 Oct 1952, pp. 192–3, 23 April

1953, pp. 78–80

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103. The Times, 10 Feb 1953

104. Honeycombe, pp. 112–3: V & A Museum, E.440–2010

105. The Times, 3 Aug 1978

Chapter 1

4–68 Oxford Street

1. LMA, Acc/2558/NR/13/233

2. TNA, C54/4830

3. TNA, C5/487/47

4. TNA, PROB11/355/272

5. MDR 1711/1/78: Victor Smith & Peter Kelsey, ‘The Lines of

Communication: The Civil War Defences of London’, in Stephen Porter, ed.,

London and the Civil War, 1996, pp. 126–7, 134

6. MDR 1711/1/78, 1718/5/281–3, 1720/5/375, 1721/1/159–162,

1723/5/124–5, 1727/2/408: TNA, PROB11/565/79, 11/595/355

7. The London Guide, 1755

8. Morning Post, 27 Jan 1780

9. The Belfast News-Letter, 26 March 1861

10. Morning Chronicle, 18 Feb 1838: B, 16 Aug 1845, p. 395: Brewery History, no.

133, 2009, p. 49

11. B, 6 July 1907, p. 26

12. John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his Times, 1895 edn, pp. 59–60

13. MDR 1721/1/212, 1723/5/279

14. WCA, Acc.1774, Box 1, deed of 1854, Box 2, deed of 1829

15. TNA, PROB11/921/251

16. W. Roberts, The Book-Hunter in London, 1895, pp. 201–2

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17. B, 3 Dec 1859, p. 797, 15 May 1875, p. 448: MBW Mins, 12 March 1875, p.

334, 19 March 1875, pp. 359–61

18. LCC Mins, 1890–1901, especially 10 June 1890, p. 504, 29 Sept 1891, pp.

901–2, 6 Oct 1891, pp. 949–50, 21 June 1892, p. 559, 6 June 1893, pp. 587–8, 25

Feb 1896, pp. 205–6, 10 March 1896, pp. 256–7, 17 March 1896, pp. 267–8, 24

Jan 1899 p.7 0, 20 Feb 1900, p. 251: London, 19 Jan 1900: William Saunders,

History of the First London County Council, 1892, pp. 524–5: Percy J. Edwards,

History of London Street Improvements, 1855–1897, pp. 224–6

19. MDR 1793/6/78–86

20. WCA, Acc.2471/3

21. Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs, 1984 edn, pp. 95–8

22. WCA, 705, 1056

23. B, 5 March 1892, p. 196, 9 July 1892, p. 41, 13 Aug 1892, p. 137, 13 May

1893, p. 377

24. Girouard, pp. 169, 185

25. WCA, 705, Acc.1774, Box 2: information from Anna Sander, Balliol College

Archives

26. WCA, T138/1

27. WDP 2/1357/4: POD

28. Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson, The Lost Theatres of London, 1968, pp.

299–321

29. LMA, MR/L/MD/858/1

30. B, 17 Nov 1860, p. 744, 30 March 1861, pp. 210–1: BN, 22 March 1861, p.

241: The Era, 31 March 1861

31. LMA, Acc/3527/458

32. The Standard, 12 Feb 1868, 2 Nov 1873: BN, 14 Feb 1868, p. 110: Illustrated

Sporting & Theatrical News, 22 Feb 1868: The Era, 23 March 1873: Mander &

Mitchenson, pp. 312–3

33. The Era, 6 Dec 1863, 31 Jan 1869, 8 May 1870, 2 July 1876, 13 Oct 1878

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34. MBW Mins, 4 April 1884, pp. 591–2, 603–4, 11 July 1884, pp. 60–1, 74, 6

March 1885, pp. 457–8

35. LMA, LCC/MIN/10868

36. LMA, LMA/4673/D/01/33/29; LCC/MIN/10868: The Times, 13 Dec 1888:

Pall Mall Gazette, 29 Oct 1890, 11 May 1892: The Era, 21 May & 16 July 1892:

DSR: ODNB (Newton-Smith): Mander & Mitchenson, pp. 316–8

37. The Era, 13 Nov 1897

38. B, 28 Jan 1893, p. 74: The Era, 4 Feb 1893: DSR

39. LCC Mins, 11 May 1897, p. 497: DSR: LMA, LCC/MIN/10868: Edwin O.

Sachs & Ernest A. E. Woodrow, Modern Opera Houses and Theatres, vol. 2, 1897

40. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/242; LCC/MIN/10868

41. Charles B. Cochran, The Secrets of a Showman, 1925, pp. 236–7: James

Harding, Cochran, 1988, pp. 64–7

42. Cochran, p. 345: Harding, pp. 89–90

43. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/242

44. The Times, 23 April 1925

45. HE, Historians’ file WM616, reports of 1991 by Steven Brindle, which form

the basis of this account

46. POD

47. Charles B. Cochran, Cock-a-doodle-doo, 1941, pp. 276–83

48. B, 11 May 1928, pp. 808–18: Building, June 1928, pp. 273–81

49. J. M. Richards, Memoirs of an Unjust Fella, 1980, p. 46

50. B, 11 May 1928, p. 808

51. Building, June 1928, pp. 274, 280

52. B, 11 Jan 1929, p. 61

53. WCA, T138/3 (Time Out, 7 Jan 1995)

54. HE, Historians’ file, WM616

55. DSR: MBW Mins, 10 June 1887, p. 936, 29 July 1887, p. 217, 12 Aug 1887, p.

332: Penny Illustrated Paper, 2 July 1887: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/115

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56. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/115: MBW Mins, 8 March 1888, p. 456, 1 Feb 1889,

p. 325, 22 Feb 1889, pp. 465–6, 484: The Standard, 3 Oct 1889: The Era, 12 Oct

1889: LCC Mins, 4 March 1890, p. 181, 18 March 1890, p. 239

57. LCC Mins, 1 Nov 1890, p. 982, 27 Oct 1891, p. 1068: Daily News, 4 June

1891: Morning Post, 30 Nov 1891: Ida Jager, Willem Kromhout Czn, 1992, pp. 31,

136, 171: Alban Chambon, Wikipedia entry

58. Bury & Norwich Post, 20 Sept 1892: The Standard, 14 Oct 1892: The Times, 19

Oct 1892: BN, 25 Nov 1892, p. 730: The Era, 24 Dec 1892

59. B, 31 Jan 1885, p. 164: FT, 24 March 1904

60. DSR

61. Lt.-Col. Newnham-Davis, Dinners and Diners, Where and How to Dine in

London, 1899, pp. 220–1

62. R. W. Lewin, 2 Oct 1893, in LMA, LCC/MIN/10811

63. LCC Mins, 27 Feb 1894, p. 219, 18 Feb 1896, p. 165: The Times, 28 Nov 1895

64. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/115; LCC/MIN/10811: WDP 2/1010/2: DSR: B,

28 Oct 1905, p. 446, 6 July 1907, p. 26

65. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/115: B, 13 April 1928, pp. 613, 616–21

66. LMA. GLC/AR/BR/06/054764

67. WDP 2/1010/1–3: The Times, 9 Sept 1953, p. 8

68. WDP 2/1010/3–4: AJ, 28 Nov 1957, p. 870: information from Lloyds TSB

Bank Ltd

69. WP

70. POD

71. WDP 2/1000/6

72. B, 27 July 1923, p. 150, 21 March 1930, p. 589: Architecture Illustrated, Jan

1931: WDP 2/1010/8

73. POD: WDP 2/1011/2


75. TNA, PROB11/1556/4

76. True Briton, 25 Jan 1800: The Times, 30 May 1806

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77. B, 8 May 1875, p. 426: WDP 2/1011/3

78. WDP 2/1011/4: B, 11 April 1885, p. 536, 24 May 1890, p. 386: LCC Mins, 25

Feb 1908, p. 423: POD

79. Daily News, 6 June 1851: Morning Chronicle, 5 Sept 1860: The Graphic, 2 July

1873

80. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1431/AHP/121a: B, 17 Oct 1868, p. 772, 29

March 1884, p. 466: WCA, Ashbridge 420/PAR

81. Pall Mall Gazette, 5 Jan 1894: POD

82. WDP 2/1655/21/21: RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1430/AHP/121–2:

DSR

83. BN, 17 June 1910, p. 831: HEA, BL20843, 20843A

84. HEA, measured drawings 58/451–478: WDP 2/1011/6

85. DSR: WDP 2/1011/7

86. Census

87. POD

88. LCC Mins, 11–12 April 1911, p. 1022: WDP 2/1011/8

89. WCA, 170/13, 14, 19

90. WCA, 170/31–35

91. HEA, measured drawings, 58/451–478

92. WDP 2/1011/8, 9

93. WP: https://news.fitzrovia.org.uk/2017/07/31

Chapter 2


1. Berners estate deeds, articles of agreement, 26 May 1738: MDR 1738/2/308,

1739/1/7, 402–5, 409, 1739/2/70–1, 200–3, 450–2, 1739/3/278–9, 486–8, 490,

1739/4/190–1, 245, 488–9, 1740/1/29: WCA, DD1468 etc.

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2. Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London,

2006, pp. 54, 233, 237: BM, Prints & Drawings, 1876, 0510.764: POD

3. WCA, DD1174, 1329: WDP 2/1060/18

4. Beard & Gilbert, p. 617: Morning Post, 1 Nov 1813

5. The Observer, 16 Jan 1848

6. WCA, DD1174, 1289, 1290: LMA, MBO/PLANS/552

7. Clive Edwards, ‘The Firm of Jackson and Graham’, Furniture History, vol.

34, 1998, pp. 238–65

8. The Examiner, 3 Jan 1836

9. Morning Post, 27 April 1837

10. POD, quoted in Edwards, p. 240

11. The Standard, 5 March 1860: POD

12. A, 16 Nov 1872, p. 278: RIBA Drawings Collection, PB213/14: LMA,

MBO/PLANS/552: B, 13 April 1867, p. 268: WCA, 420/JAC

13. House Furnisher & Decorator, Sept 1872, p. 97, quoted in Edwards, p. 241:

DSR

14. Edwards, pp. 259–65

15. The Times, 7 May 1885

16. Clive Edwards, ‘Art Furniture in the Old English Style: the firm of

Collinson and Lock, London, 1870–1900’, in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative

Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, vol. 19, no. 2, 2012, pp. 255–81: HEA,

BL08254/1: DSR

17. ILN, 28 Oct 1905

18. WDP 2/1060/18: DSR

19. B, 16 April 1887, p. 591, 12 May 1888, p. 340: DSR: WDP 2/1012/2

20. Colin Sorensen, London on Film, 1996, p. 17: Pall Mall Gazette, 18 Oct 1894

21. POD

22. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/TP/073429/01: LCC Mins, 15 April 1913, p. 768,

24 June 1913, p. 1491: Berners Estate, lease book and sales particulars, 1934

23. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/TP/073429/01

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24. The Times, 21 & 22 Aug 1945, 4 Dec 1945, 7 & 10 June 1946, 19 July 1946, 8

& 27 Jan 1947

25. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/TP/073429/01, 02

26. ABN, 25 Jan 1961, p. 138: WDP 2/R0020

27. WP: www.orms.co.uk/work/76-oxford-street (2018)

28. Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 804–5: www.gpe.co.uk/our-

portfolio/rathbone-square (2018)

29. Berners Estate lease book: DSR

30. LCC Mins, 26 June 1900, p. 863, 31 March 1914, p. 850: WDP 2/1012/3

31. WDP 2/1012/4: Berners Estate lease book: DSR

32. POD

33. www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de, sub Osler: information from Mr John P.

Smith

34. Deepika Ahlawat, ‘Empire of Glass: F. & C. Osler in India, 1840–1930’, in

Journal of Design History, vol. 21, no. 2, 2008, pp. 155–70

35. Morning Chronicle, 28 June 1845

36. Glasgow Herald, 19 June 1846: Daily News, 17 Feb 1847: Lloyd’s Weekly

Newspaper¸ 25 June 1848

37. Carol A. Hrvol Flores, Owen Jones, 2006, p. 147: J. R. Piggott, Palace of the

People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham¸ 2004, Chapter 3

38. BN, 3 June 1859, p. 510

39. Ibid.

40. Art Journal, 1 Nov 1862, p. 211

41. ILN, 12 July 1862, p. 56

42. B, 3 Oct 1885, p. 455

43. British Trade Review, 1 Jan 1904, p. 11

44. Academy Architecture, 1909 (1), p. 142: BN, 8 March 1912, p. 342

45. WDP 2/1012/5: Radio Trade Journal, 26 Dec 1925: B, 12 Feb 1926, pp. 276,

278

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46. HE, Historians’ file WM1057 (report by Howard Spencer): LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/7/4084

47. Berners Estate, sales particulars, 1934: WDP 2/1012/6: B, 2 May 1930, p.

872

48. WCA, DD1307

49. POD

50. Adburgham, pp. 42, 283: POD

51. HEA, BL09289/1: Art Union, 1841: David A. Taylor, ‘Additions to

Christopher Dresser’s List of Clients’, Joournal of the Decorative Arts, no. 36,

2012, pp. 102–3

52. LCC Mins, 10 Dec 1889, p. 972, 22 April 1890, p. 331: WDP 2/1012/8:

Berners Estate, sales particulars, 1934

53. WDP 2/1012/7: B, 25 Sept 1931, p. 518

54. WCA, D Misc 158: Morning Post, 8 July 1805

55. WCA, DD3420, 3422

56. Morning Post, 27 Nov 1849

57. Daily News, 3 Oct 1846

58. Ibid., 29 April 1853

59. Morning Post, 7 Feb 1839, 4 April 1840, 27 May 1844, 18 July 1844, 23 April

1845, 9 May 1845

60. Ibid., 23 April 1845

61. Ibid., 22 June 1849

62. Daily News, 17 June 1851, 29 April 1853


64. Morning Post, 20 July 1854, 6 Aug 1862: Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury

Guardian, 9 Feb 1856: Daily News, 19 Oct 1861: The Standard, 3 Jan & 14 Nov

1862

65. RIBA Drawings Collection, PB334/3, 337/3: The Mirror of Literature,

Amusement & Instruction, 26 April 1845: trade bill in collection of Christopher

Bourne, esq.: LMA, MBO/PLANS/454

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17

66. The Standard, 7 Oct 1857

67. ODNB sub George Gask

68. WCA, Ashbridge 420/GRA: Illustrated London 1893, p. 93: The Standard, 24

May 1892

69. This section is largely based on archives in possession of Christopher

Bourne, Esq., Snowshill Hill, Gloucestershire

70. HEA, BL26558: B, 6 Jan 1922, p. 33

71. B, 18 Sept 1925, p. 422

72. ABN, 29 Nov 1935, pp. 243–4

73. Drapers’ Record, 28 Aug 1937, p. 40

74. The Times, 28 Nov 1986

75. Sonia Ashmore, Bronwen Edwards & David Gilbert, ‘”Mr Bourne’s

Dilemma”: Consumer Culture, Property Speculation and Department Store

Demise: the Rise and Fall of Bourne and Hollingsworth on London’s Oxford

Street’, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 30, 2012, pp. 1–13

76. FT, 8 Aug 1978, 14 Oct 1978, 15 March 1979

77. FT, 27 May 1983: Glasgow Herald, 27 Aug 1983

78. The Times, 17 Oct 1985: FT, 18 Oct 1985: B, 25 Oct 1985, p.11

79. WP

Chapter 3


1. MDR 1721/2/30, 1722/3/120–3, 1723/1/392, 1725/1/343, 1728/6/113:

London Gazette, 2–5 Oct 1725

2. MDR 1721/2/30, 1721/2/55, 1734/3/69: TNA, C11/1281/12;

PROB31/136/61: London Gazette, 2–5 Oct 1725: Daily Journal, 28 Jan 1729

DRAFT


18

3. WCA, Ashbridge 750: ODNB: Daily Journal, 17 Nov 1726, 13 Feb 1733 etc.:

Daily Post, 25 Nov 1726, 26 April 1732: Alan Borg, ‘The Monarch of

Marylebone Plains: James Figg’s Place in 18th-Century British Art’, British Art

Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 35–6: information from Tony Gee

4. MDR 1722/1/309-10, 1740/4/278, 1743/1/438–9: Survey of London, vol. 52,

2017, p. 766

5. Daily Advertiser, 30 Nov 1782: Oracle & Public Advertiser, 7 June 1794

6. WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW maps K): POD

7. Musical World, vol. 17, 1842, p. 418

8. POD: Morning Post, 25 March 1801: The Floral Calendar, 1839

9. POD, sub George Dobree

10. Morning Post, 9 & 25 Dec 1886: The Standard, 24 April & 24 May 1898:

Census: POD

11. WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW maps K): POD

12. Morning Post, 3 Nov 1837: The Standard, 30 Jan 1852: Daily News, 5 Dec

1854: POD

13. MBW Mins, 15 March 1872, p. 416: B, 11 May 1872, p. 374: A, 28 Sept 1872,

p. 178

14. MBW Mins, 15 Oct 1880, pp. 472–3, 17 June 1881, p. 982: The Standard, 19

April 1890: DSR

15. LCC Mins, 29 March 1892, p. 270: B, 21 May 1892, p. 409: RIBA Drawings

Collection, PA1279/2: DSR

16. Robert Halliday & Bernard Susser, ‘The Ipswich Jewish Communities in

the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of

Archaeology and History, vol. 40, part 2, 2002, pp. 151, 156

17. Morning Post, 26 Oct 1849: Daily News, 24 April 1851

18. B, 10 May 1862, p. 340: BN, 8 May 1863, p. 354

19. B, 21 Aug 1886, p. 294: DSR: HEA, BL11490

20. LCC Mins, 16 Nov 1909, pp. 1026–7, 14 Dec 1909, p. 1349, 29 Nov 1910, pp.

1263-4, 3 March 1914, pp. 536–7

DRAFT


19

21. https://buildingourpast.com/2016/01/03/ca-modes-part-i-getting-

established (2017)

22. WDP 2/R0007: WP: POD

23. ODNB and DBB sub Sir Frederick Thorpe Mappin: John Culme, Directory of

Gold & Silversmiths, Jewellers & Allied Trades, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 308–10

24. Culme: Daily News, 22 April 1860, 26 May 1860: The Times, 31 May 1860

25. The Standard, 2 & 25 July 1867

26. MBW Mins, 21 Dec 1888, p. 1183, 11 Jan 1889, pp. 52, 65: DSR

27. LCC Mins, 31 March 1903, p. 532: DSR

28. BN, 4 May 1906, p. 635: Academy Architecture, 1906 (1), p. 44

29. ODNB

30. BA, 29 May 1908, p. 388

31. AR, Nov 1908, pp. 254–60: B, 12 March 1910, p. 296: HEA, BL20234–7:

Jonathan Clarke, Early Structural Steel in London Buildings, 2014, p. 231

32. LCC Mins, 12–13 Oct 1909, p. 591, 30 Nov 1909, p. 1215, 27–28 Feb 1912, p.

470, 18 June 1912, pp. 1464–5: B, 8 March 1929, p. 483, 14 Feb 1936, p. 359:

WDP 2/1013/6

33. The Times, 30 April 1953

34. AR, vol. 38, 1915, pp. 98–101

35. FT, 6 Jan & 18 June 1956

36. Ibid., 29 July 1959

37. Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966, pp. 58–9: Morrison, pp. 93–9

38. WCA, Ashbridge 792, sale particulars, 1834

39. The Times, 17 March 1827

40. Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography, 1965 edn, vol. 2, c. 1308

41. Ralph Hyde & Pieter van der Merwe, ‘The Queen’s Bazaar’, in Theatrephile,

vol. 2, no. 8, 1985, pp. 10–14

42. Morning Post, 11 Dec 1827: The Examiner, 6 April 1828: Morning Chronicle,

21 April 1828, 2 March 1829

43. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, 18 April 1829, p. 266

DRAFT


20

44. Hyde & Van der Merwe, p. 14


46. Ibid., 20 April 1830, 13 Jan 1831

47. Richard D. Altick, The Shows of London, 1978, pp. 253, 332, 398–9, 410–11,

414

48. WCA, Ashbridge 792, sale particulars, 1834

49. The Standard, 9 April 1834. For a full account of the theatre see Robert

Thorne, ‘The Princess’s Theatre, Oxford Street’, in Theatrephile, vol. 2, no. 8,

1985, pp. 16–17

50. TNA, C13/2297: Morning Post, 22 Oct 1836, 20 Oct 1837

51. Morning Post, 19 Oct 1838, 18 Oct 1839, 25 Sept & 1 Oct 1840

52. Companion to the British Almanac, 1841, pp. 241–2: The Mirror of Literature,

Amusement, and Instruction¸16 Jan 1841, pp. 33–4

53. Morning Post, 31 March & 8 April 1841, 1 April 1842

54. M. Glen Wilson, ‘Charles Kean at the Princess’s Theatre; a Financial

Report’, in Educational Theatre Journal, vol. 23, March 1971, p. 54

55. ILN, 10 Oct 1857: B, 26 March 1859, p. 215

56. Wilson, p. 52

57. Malcolm Elwin, Charles Reade, A Biography, 1931, p. 270

58. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/1472: B, 13 Nov 1880, pp. 581–2: BN, 29 Oct 1880,

p. 513, 1 April 1881, p. 360

59. The Standard, 19 April 1890: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/001006/1: LCC Mins,

3 June 1890, p. 465, 31 Oct 1893, p. 1057, 5 Dec 1893, p. 1187

60. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/31/19235: MBW Mins, 16 Nov 1883, pp. 733–4, 745–6

61. B, 26 Feb 1896, p. 157, 6 Dec 1902, p. 535: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/1472;

GLC/AR/BR/31/19235: LCC Mins, 21 Dec 1897, p. 1427

62. Boston Evening Transcript, 6 July 1900: B, 6 Dec 1902, p. 535: The Times, 12

March 1904

63. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/1472; GLC/AR/BR/31/19235: B, 2 Dec 1905, p.

582, 27 July 1907, p. 119, 1 Aug 1908, p. 124

DRAFT


21

64. The Times, 10 June 1912: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/03829/01: HEA,

BL21829–30

65. The Times, 17 Nov 1920, 5 Dec 1923: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/03829/01

66. The Times, 30 July 1931: WDP 2/T186, 2/1013/4: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/17/001006/1–2, GLC/AR/BR/23/062706

67. The Independent, 14 Jan 2014

Chapter 4


1. MDR 1724/2/191, 1724/5/430, 1725/3/194–5, 1725/3/211, 1726/2/190

2. TNA, C11/2394/3: WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW, Maps H & I): POD: Whitehall

Evening Post, 11 July 1799 etc.

3. WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW, Map I): POD

4. Morning Post & Daily Advertiser, 16 Nov 1786, 22 May 1789: TNA,

PROB11/1270/255: Curtis Price, Judith Milhous, Gabriella Dideriksen &

Robert D. Hume, Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth Century London, vol. 1, 1995,

pp. 157–72, 639–56, vol. 2, 2001, pp. 389–93 etc: UBD: POD

5. Morning Chronicle, 8 May 1847: The Era, 17 Aug 1862: B, 26 Nov 1864, p. 872,

14 Sept 1895, p.195: St James’s Gazette, 20 Dec 1897: POD

6. Adburgham, p. 283

7. TNA, PROB11/1820/238: LMA, MS 11936/465/893696: POD

8. Morning Post, 24 Nov 1873: Benjamin Weinstein, Liberalism and Local

Government in Early Victorian London, 2011, pp. 145–75

9. Tallis’s History and Description of the Crystal Palace, 1851, vol. 2, p. 22: J. A.

Nicholay, Historical Account of Skins and Furs: A Brief History of Furs & the Fur

Trade, 1851

DRAFT


22

10. LMA, MBO/PLANS/171, 199, 200; MR/B/C/1841/2–3: BN, 1 Oct 1858, p.

976: B, 12 Sept 1863, p. 653, 2 Nov 1867, p. 807: DSR: POD

11. DSR: POD: MBW Mins, 18 Oct 1867, p. 131: B, 2 Nov 1867, p. 807, 19 June

1875, p. 544: The Standard, 2 Nov 1867: Pall Mall Gazette, 18 Jan 1889

12. Morning Post, 13 Feb 1779, 24 Jan 1781: Morning Chronicle, 29 Jan 1780: POD

13. True Briton, 18 Nov 1793

14. TNA, PROB11/1546/142: LMA, Acc.216/1

15. B, 15 Jan 1881, p. 86, 29 Jan 1881, p. 144: POD

16. The Examiner, 2 Nov 1834: The Court Journal, 17 Oct 1835: Adburgham, p.

283

17. B, 30 July 1887, p. 192, 12 Aug 1887, p. 379: MBW Mins, 8 July 1887, p. 68:

The Times, 23 March 1897: LMA, MBW/BA/36766: POD

18. POD: Collage 26599

19. Andrew Saint, ‘What Became of Waring?’, Construction History, vol. 12, no.

1, 2014, pp. 75–98

20. WCA, 2233/33, cutting from Sidcup District Times, 23 May 1919

21. Freemans Journal, 28 Nov 1896

22. FT, 10 July 1897, 7 May 1902

23. Ibid., 5 April 1898

24. Ibid., 12 April 1901

25. Ibid., 3 June & 7 July 1904; RIBA Journal, vol. 13, 1905, pp. 29–49

26. FT, 3 Aug 1906

27. Ibid., 12 April 1901

28. LCC Mins, 25 Feb 1902, pp. 286–7

29. DSR

30. FT, 11 June & 3 Aug 1906

31. RIBA Journal, July 1923, p. 566

32. Royal Academy Library, Norman Shaw drawings

33. RIBA, Fellowship nomination papers for R. Frank Atkinson, June 1905

34. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/12/ES/001403

DRAFT


23

35. WCA, 2238/84, plans in brochure for opening of new building, 1906

36. Jonathan Clarke, Early Structural Steel in London Buildings, 2014, pp. 242–4

37. B, 4 Nov 1905, p. 474: BA, 25 Dec 1908, p. 436: Stanley Jones & Co.Ltd,

Achievements in Artistic and Practical Shopfitting, c.1923

38. WCA, 2233/83

39. The Times, 11 Dec 1907

40. Ibid., 25 April 1907

41. FT, 28 & 29 Dec 1910, 16 June 1911

42. Hansard, 19 July 1922, personal statement by Lord Waring

43. Alan Powers, Serge Chermayeff: Designer Architect Teacher, 2001, pp. 13–17

44. Kahncrete Engineering, Nov–Dec 1926, pp. 98–9

45. The Times, 2 Sept 1930

46. Ibid., 22 Oct 1932

47. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/038029/01; GLC/AR/BR/17/001006/01, 02;

GLC/AR/BR/23/1403/Part I

48. FT, 2 Jan 1954

49. Ibid., 13 & 18 June, 14 & 28 July 1955

50. Ibid., 29 Oct 1960: WCA, 2233/37

51. WCA, 2233/96; T138/4 (Westminster & Paddington News, 6 April 1973)

52. LMA, LMA/4460/01/68/032 & 033: HE, Historians’ file, WM100

53. Ibid.

54. AJ, 21 Feb 1979, p. 363

55. WDP 2/1014/1: WP: www.collins-construction.com/projects/pec-oxford

(2016)

56. POD: HdeW, terms and plans

57. DSR: WDP 2/1014/3

DRAFT


24

Chapter 5


1. Survey of London, vol. 51, pp. 7–8: MDR 1719/1/303, 1720/5/64,

1725/3/308–9, 1725/4/57–9, 1728/4/242–4, 1738/1/100

2. WCA, D Misc. 271; Ashbridge cuttings, 160/OXF: Survey of London, vol. 51,

2017, p. 242: MDR 1728/1/169

3. UBD

4. Daily Advertiser, 14 Feb 1772: Gazette & New Daily Advertiser, 6 April 1781:

Morning Chronicle & London Advertiser, 15 Jan 1785 etc.

5. WCA, 2568/1/1

6. David Souden, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, 1991, pp. 48, 71: POD

7. MBW Mins, 4 July 1873, p. 28: B, 8 May 1875, pp. 416–7: DSR: POD

8. MBW Mins, 11 July 1879, p. 87, 14 Nov 1879, pp. 632–3, 640: B, 19 April

1879, p. 442: DSR

9. MBW Mins, 8 July 1881, p. 83, 11 Dec 1885, p. 873, 12 March 1886, p. 504, 8

Oct 1886, p. 484, 20 May 1887, p. 833: B, 14 Aug 1886, p. 257: DSR: HEA,

BL23860

10. Carmarthen Weekly Reporter, 18 Aug 1899

11. LCC Mins, 28 March 1893, pp. 352–3, 19 Nov 1895, p. 1078, 17 Dec 1895, p.

1218, 17 March 1896, p. 285, 21 April 1896, p. 395:

www.johnlewismemorystore.org.uk/page/t_j_harries_of_oxford_street?path

=0p316p (2018)

12. The Times, 30 July 1902, 1 Oct 1910, 25 March 1920

13. Ibid., 21 March 1922, 21 March 1923

14. Ibid., 19 Sept & 20 Dec 1928

15. JLA, 788/iii, 1955–8, & 2525t: JLG, 12 March 1955

16. The Times, 14 May & 15 Dec 1956

DRAFT


25

17. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/100963/2: The Times, 23 June & 11 Dec 1959, 29

May 1961: LCC Mins, 4 July 1961, pp. 444–5


19. WCA, T138/31

20. Drapers, 5 Jan 2016: The Guardian, 6 April 2016

21. TNA, ED168/881: LCC Mins, 30 March 1915, pp. 489–90: Helen Reynolds,

Couture or Trade: an Early Pictorial Record of the London College of Fashion, 1997

22. London College of Fashion archives, college scrapbooks

23. TNA, ED168/882: LCC Mins, 17 June 1958, p. 386, 6 Oct 1959, pp. 548–50:

London College of Fashion archives, college scrapbooks, press cuttings, 1963

24. TNA, ED168/882

25. Woman & Home, March 1964: London College of Fashion archives, LCC

press release, 1963

26. London College of Fashion archives, LCC press release, 1963; press

cuttings, 1963: Building Industry News, 28 Nov 1963: Contract Journal, 5 Dec

1963

27. London College of Fashion archives, prospectuses and press cuttings

28. Inner London Education Authority, Education Committee Mins, 20 July

1966, p. 560

Chapter 6


1. MDR 1719/1/223, 1719/4/113, 251, 1722/4/140, 192

2. WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW Maps D)

3. Morning Post, 14 Dec 1818, 5 Dec 1840: The Examiner, 23 Dec 1832: POD

4. Laura Microulis, ‘Charles Hindley & Sons, London House Furnishers of the

Nineteenth Century’, in Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 5, no. 2, 1998, pp.

DRAFT


26

69–96 (photograph p. 71, quotation p. 81): MBW Mins, 16 April 1869, p. 464, 2

Aug 1878, p. 220, 4 Oct 1878, p. 391, 28 Nov 1879, p. 738: DSR: Morning Post,

20 Oct 1892: Furniture History, vol. 6, 1970, pp. 73–80, vol. 37, 2001, pp. 67–90:

POD

5. POD: WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW Maps D)

6. POD: WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW Maps D): http://bookhistory.blogspot.co.uk

7. LMA, MBO/PLANS/601: MBW Mins, 4 Aug 1876, p. 219, 4 May 1877, p.

666: B, 4 Aug 1877, p. 798: Western Mail, 2 March 1877: DSR: POD

8. Websites: Census

9. BN, 18 Oct 1878, p. 393

10. DSR

11. Morning Post, 1828–1831, passim: TNA, PROB11/1739/65

12. The best account of the John Lewis firm is by Peter Cox, Spedan’s

Partnership, 2010

13. JLA, passim


15. MBW Mins, 11 Jan 1878, pp. 53–4, 1 Feb 1878, pp. 159, 162, 23 Jan 1880, p.

137: LCC Mins, 22 April 1890, p. 333: DSR

16. DSR

17. JLA, 3873/1, Spedan Lewis to C. H. Reilly, 15 Feb 1937, and 4129/2,

Spedan Lewis to Reginald Uren, 9 Feb 1951

18. The Times, 8–11 March 1911: WCA, D Misc 57: DSR: Thomas Seymour,

‘The Cavendish Square business; the strange affair of Mr Lewis’s plate-glass

window’, typescript, c.2005 (copy in JLA, 114/22): Survey of London, vol. 51,

2017, pp. 19–21

19. English Heritage, Blue Plaques file 185

20. Seymour: The Times, ut supra, also 25 Oct 1901, 1 July 1903


22. Seymour: The Times, ut supra, also 14 Nov 1911

23. HdeW Archives, 5/7/1

DRAFT


27

24. Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 662, 673

25. Cox, Chapters 4–7

26. Ibid. Chapters 7–8

27. JLG, 22 Sept 1928: Cox, p. 82: RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1281/1/5

28. JLA, 2525t

29. Cox, p. 83: JLA, 3873/1, Spedan Lewis & C. H. Reilly correspondence, July

1935: HdeW Archives, 1/10, minutes of 27 May 1924, 28 July 1925

30. C. H. Reilly, Scaffolding in the Sky, 1938, pp. 295–7

31. JLA, 4432k, reminiscences of William Crabtree

32. JLA, 4129/2

33. JLA, 2668a: AJ, 12 March 1936, pp. 415–9

34. JLA, 3873, passim

35. Ibid., 4129/2

36. Ibid., 2668a, 13 Nov 1935

37. Ibid., 3873, 1936–7

38. Ibid., 2668a, 9 May 1935

39. Ibid., 3873/1, 1 Aug 1936

40. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1059/2/14

41. JLA, 421/4, 2354a

42. Architecture Illustrated, July 1939, pp. 22–4

43. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1059/1–19: Caterer and Hotel Keeper, 12 May

1939, in JLA, 252/3, vol.9 (Spedan Lewis scrapbook)

44. The Times, 23 July & 16 Aug 1943: Harriet Atkinson, The Festival of Britain,

2012, p. 38

45. JLA, 2668a and 3873/2, 1941–3

46. RIBA Drawings Collection, DR53/7, DR166/2, PA1059/2/19–27

47. JLA, 3873/3, April–Oct 1945

48. Ibid.,, 4129/2, Spedan Lewis to Reginald Uren, 9 Feb 1951

49. Ibid., 3873/3, Spedan Lewis to Crabtree, 18 Oct 1945

50. Ibid., 4129/2, Spedan Lewis to Slater, 2 Oct 1945

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28

51. Ibid., 4129/2, memo and letter of March 1946

52. Ibid., 2525s

53. B, 9 Sept 1949, pp. 319–21: ABN, 23 Sept 1949, pp. 298–300: AJ, 22 Sept

1949, pp. 308–11, 27 July 1950, p. 85: AD, Aug 1950, p. 232

54. JLA, 4129/2, Spedan Lewis to Uren, 9 & 15 Feb 1951

55. Ibid., 788/iii, 1951–4

56. Ibid., 788/iii, 1955–8: JLG, 12 March 1955, 14 Feb 1959

57. Financial Times, 24 Oct 1960: B, 11 Nov 1960, pp. 869–72

58. JLG, 16 April, 25 June, 22 Oct & 5 Nov 1960

59. JLA, prospectus, 17 Oct 1960; JLG, 29 Oct 1960

60. JLA, 1048/o/4

61. Ibid., 4129/2, memo, 5 April 1951

62. Ibid., 788/iii, 15 March 1956

63. JLG, 21 April 1962, 27 April 1963, 25 April 1964

64. The Times, 8 Nov 2006: JLG, 30 Nov 2007

65. JLG, 6 June 1970

Chapter 7


1. MDR 1722/4/193–4, 1723/4/239, 1724/6/60, 1725/6/532, 1749/4/50;

Survey of London, vol. 51, 2017, Chapter 8

2. MDR 1725/6/532, 1730/3/196

3. London Courant, Westminster Chronicle and Daily Advertiser, 20 Nov 1781:

Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 27 Sept 1788: HdeW Archives, terms and

plans: Morning Advertiser, 25 Feb 1832

4. Morning Advertiser, 19 Oct 1854

5. UBD: The World, 24 July 1793: Daily Advertiser, 9 Jan 1796

DRAFT


29

6. Morning Advertiser, 11 April 1810

7. Unless otherwise indicated, the text primarily draws upon H. L. Karby, An

Autobiography of D. H. Evans 1879–1956, 1958

8. Census

9. Western Mail, 17 Oct 1876

10. Census

11. Census: D. Hugh Matthews, Castle Street Meeting House – A History, 1989,

pp. 5, 9, 10

12. B, 2 Sept 1882, p. 323, 22 Nov 1884, p. 714, 13 Dec 1884, p. 813, 12 Feb 1887,

p. 271

13. John Grigg, The Young Lloyd George, 1973, p. 104: Drapers’ Record, 28 Aug

1937, p. 40

14. LMA, O/136/1

15. FT, 9 July 1915: Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 9 July 1915: Glasgow

University Archives, FRAS 362/2, Board of Directors, Mins, 9 Dec 1914, 17

Feb 1915

16. FT, 27 May 1915

17. Ancestry, Probate Records

18. Glasgow University Archives, FRAS 362/1, Board of Directors Mins, 24

Jan 1895

19. Survey of London, vol. 41, 1983, pp. 17–23

20. Evening Standard, 29 June 1909


June 1906

22. Ibid,, FRAS 362/1, Board of Directors Mins, 8 Nov 1906, 9 Jan 1907

23. BN, 21 Jan 1910, p. 98: LCC Mins, 14 May 1907, pp. 1062–4

24. BN, 21 Jan 1910, p. 98

25. Ibid.

26. Glasgow University Archives, FRAS 362/3, Board of Directors Mins, Feb

1912, 9 Oct 1912: Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, p. 673

DRAFT


30


March 1927

28. Ibid., FRAS 362/3, Board of Directors Mins, 15 Nov 1928

29. Ibid., FRAS 362/3, Board of Directors Mins, 15 Dec 1933

30. Ibid., FRAS 362/3, Board of Directors Mins, 5 April 1935

31. AJ, 15 Sept 1938, pp. 428–9, 432–3

32. B, 8 Jan 1937, pp. 121–2

33. Glasgow University Archives, FRAS 362/3, Board of Directors, Mins, 10

May 1935

34. Morrison, p. 157

35. B, 8 Jan 1937, p. 122

36. D. H. Evans, Coronation brochure, 1937

37. D. H. Evans, Coronation brochure, 1937: Draper’s Record, 6 March 1937

38. Glasgow University Archives, House of Fraser archives

39. The Guardian, 22 Aug 2018

40. Jacob Simon, ‘Thomas Johnson’s The Life of the Author’, Furniture History,

vol. 39, 2003, p. 32: TNA, PROB11/646/130: MDR 1719/2/144, 1719/4/113,

1724/3/421, 1724/6/412: RB


42. WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW maps)

43. HdeW Archives, terms and plans: Tallis

44. UBD: Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 14 Dec 1789: London Chronicle, 11–14

May 1799: Stamford Mercury, 11 Aug 1809

45. WCA, T138, advertisement from the Chemists’ and Druggists’ Diary, 1893

46. Census

47. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/06/056723: WDP 2/1017/4–6: WCA, T138; M: Acc

449/239 and 10/14


49. Census: www.richardfordmanuscripts.co.uk/catalogue/9615 (2018)

DRAFT


31

50. LMA, CLC/B/192/001/MS11931/015, MS11932/035, DD/006/MS19494,

B/020/MS14115/002

51. Ibid., CLC/B/192/B/009/MS11932/047

52. B, 12 July 1902, p. 39


54. HEA, BL20192, 20245: Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly, vols 67–68,

1908, p. 27

Chapter 8


1. Survey of London, vol. 51, 2017, pp. 147, 241: UBD: TNA, PROB11/1417/146:

Morning Post, 2 Jan 1805

2. Adburgham, p. 45

3. WCA, M.Acc.0503, Box 2: Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec 1903

4. LMA, Q/UL/J/229–30

5. Newcastle Courant, 14 Jan 1842

6. J. W. Ferry, A History of the Department Store, 1960, p. 242

7. Morning Post, 14 Oct 1844: The Standard, 14 Oct 1844, 29 Nov 1847

8. LMA, Q/UL/J/230

9. WCA, M.Acc.0503, Box 3, Stinton’s Trust

10. The Standard, 6 Feb 1852: Morning Post, 23 Nov 1859

11. Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec 1903

12. Morning Post, 27 Nov 1849, 2 June 1851: LMA, Q/UL/J/252

13. Adburgham, pp. 146–7: Bath Chronicle, 21 July 1864: Marchioness of

Londonderry, Henry Chaplin, a Memoir, 1926, pp. 47–8

14. MBW Mins, 15 Jan 1864, p. 87, 29 Jan 1864, p. 138: B, 23 Jan 1864, p. 70

15. B, 18 Dec 1897, p. 515

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32

16. DSR

17. Ferry, p. 250

18. B, 20 July 1878, pp. 782–5

19. Ferry, pp. 249–50

20. WCA, M.Acc.0503, Boxes 2–4

21. LMA, Q/UL/H/227

22. WCA, M.Acc.0503, Box 3

23. LCC Mins, 4 Feb 1913, pp. 231–2, 14 July 1914, pp. 164, 166: LMA.

GLC/AR/BR/17/036622/03, GLC/AR/BR/23/001139/2

24. The Times, 27 Feb & 13 March 1919

25. WP, report by Donald Insall & Associates, 2012: LMA.

GLC/AR/BR/17/036622/02–04; GLC/AR/BR/23/001139/01–03: The Times,

25 June 1969: FT, 6 Aug 1976

26. Simon Bradley & Nikolaus Pevsner, London 6: Westminster, 2003, p. 463:

WP, report by Donald Insall & Associates, 2012

27. WP, report by Donald Insall & Associates, 2012

28. www.ft.com/content/e233ee42-b5cd-11e8-b3ef-799c8613f4a1:

www.britishland.com/news-and-views/press-releases/2016/07-07-2016

(accessed 2018)

29. WP, reports on 334–348 Oxford Street, 2012: Evening Standard, 11 June 2013

Chapter 9


1. WCA, 2273-1 (HdeW Map A)

2. John & Edward Bumpus Ltd, Booksellers to His Majesty the King, 1930: The

Times, 7 Jan 1935

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3. POD: TNA, B3/516: Morning Chronicle, 19 Nov 1832

4. B, 14 April 1883, p. 500: MBW Mins, 28 July 1881, p. 219, 5 Aug 1881, pp.

244, 248

5. Survey of London, vol. 51, 2017, p. 150. Business records of the later period of

the Bumpus firm are in WCA, M.Acc 418

6. LMA, Q/UL/J/81, 308: AR, vol. 18, 1905, pp. 184–6: BN, 18 Aug 1905, p.

218: WDP 2/1018/3: DSR

7. ABN, 9 May 1930, pp. 603–5

8. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/076092: WDP 2/1017/9–10, 2/1018/1, 2: The Times,

7 Jan 1935: ABN, 17 April 1936, pp. 66–8: Vogue, 5 Aug 1936: The Observer, 3

Feb 1935, 16 Dec 1951: Architecture Illustrated. April 1951, pp. 34–5


10. MDR 1780/2/138, 1780/3/543, 1788/8/430, 1800/4/91: London Gazette,

17–20 May 1788

11. WCA, DD1136

12. Survey of London, vol. 51, 2017, ill. 176

13. B, 29 Oct 1892, p. 333

14. The Observer, 7 Aug 1864: B, 3 Sept 1864, p. 648

15. FT, 13 May 1961: RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1087/1: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/17/003722

16. WP: www.fletcherpriest.com (2018)

17. WCA, 0855

18. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619: LCC Mins, 9 Dec 1913, p. 1040, 10 Feb

1914, p. 301, 26–27 May 1914, p. 1335

19. WCA, 0855

20. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619

21. LMA. COL/CC/CLC/02/86, 87; COL/SVD/PL/01/2786: WCA 0855:

WDP 2/1018/7: B, 30 June 1916, p. 470: DSR

22. The Observer, 23 Oct 1921

23. WCA, 0855

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34

24. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619

25. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619: ABN, 12 Feb 1932, pp. 221–6, 26 Feb 1932,

supplement; 15 April 1932, supplement

26. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619

27. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619: DSR: The Times, 24 Feb 1915

28. WDP 2/1019/1: HEA, BL22794

29. AR, vol. 40, 1916, pp. 86–7: WCA, 0855, easement of Nov 1914: LCC Mins,

28 July 1914, p. 417: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619; GLC/AR/BR/19/2551


31. WDP 2/1018/4, 6: AR, vol. 40, 1916, pp. 86–7: HEA, BL23648: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/07/040619

32. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/07/040619

33. POD:

www.npg.org.uk/research/conservation/directory-of-british-framemakers

(2018): Morning Post, 30 May 1848 etc: Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, 8

May 1852

34. www.jamesglancydesign.com/case-study/st-chris-spirit (2018)

35. WDP 2/1019/2: HEA, BL 22794

36. DSR: POD

37. LCC Mins, 28 July 1903, p. 1364, 26 Jan 1904, p. 32, 29 March 1904, p. 487,

19 July 1904, p. 1512, 28 Feb 1905, p. 689, 18 June 1907, p. 1277: WDP

2/1019/3: DSR: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/022959: Census

38. The History of The Times {Volume 3}: The Twentieth Century Test 1884–1912,

1947, pp. 448–59, 831

39. News UK Archives, Times Book Club papers

40. The History of The Times (ut supra), p. 832

41. Janet E. Courtney, Recollected in Tranquillity, 1926, p. 172

42. Courtney, pp. 187–92: News UK Archives, Times Book Club papers

43. News UK Archives, Times Book Club papers

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35

44. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/022959; GLC/AR/BR/23/002145: WDP

2/1019/3, 4

45. FT, 28 Jan 1938, 27 Jan 1959

46. POD

47. LCC Mins, 18 June 1907, p. 1277: StMBC Mins, 8 June 1907, p. 389, 4 July

1907, p. 451, 1 Aug 1907, p. 511

48. WDP 2/1019/5: The Times, 6 Jan 1960

49. HEA, BL22296: The Times, 12 March 1929: Adburgham, pp. 209–10:

Census: DSR: POD

Chapter 10


1. MDR 1740/4/715, 1761/2/159, 1762/1/170, 1762/3/60: TNA,

PROB11/856/386: RB

2. SA, Sel 1/a

3. Portman estate deeds: RB

4. MBW Mins, 14 Oct 1870, p. 458

5. SA, Box 91: John Martin Robinson, The Wyatts, 1979, p. 160: UBD

6. ODNB, sub Gillow family

7. Daily Advertiser, 29 Dec 1773, 4 Feb 1774

8. Survey of London, vol. 40, 1980, p. 101: Akiko Shimbo, Furniture-Makers and

Consumers in England, 1754–1851, 2016, p. 137

9. Beard & Gilbert, pp. 297, 733, 968–9

10. Shimbo, p. 140

11. B, 31 Dec 1859, p. 859: Art Union, 1841

12. SA, 1/a: Lancashire Archives, DDX 1122/1/15

13. Morning Post, 25 Aug 1896: The Standard, 15 June 1897

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36

14. SA, 1/c

15. BA, 9 Sept 1898, p. 195

16. Ibid., 12 July 1901, p. 35

17. The principal books on Selfridge and his store are: A. H. Williams, No

Name on the Door: A Memoir of Gordon Selfridge, 1956; Reginald Pound,

Selfridge, A Biography, 1960: Gordon Honeycombe, Selfridges: Seventy-Five

Years, The Story of the Store 1909–1984, 1984: and Lindy Woodhead, Shopping,

Seduction and Mr Selfridge, 2008

18. Typescript notes in possession of Nikki Archer-Waring

19. Pound, p. 33

20. Passenger lists, UK arrivals

21. Pound, p. 40

22. J. G. White & Company, At Work around the World; an Illustrated Description

of Some Contributions by a Group of Engineering and Construction Companies to

Commercial and Industrial Developments on Five Continents, 1908, p. 68

23. Pound, p. 42

24. SA, 1/c

25. Jay Pridmore, Marshall Field, 2002

26. This section is based unless otherwise stated on Minutes and Presented

Papers of the LCC’s Building Act Committee, 1906–7, in LMA

27. LCC Mins, 7 May 1907, p. 1023

28. Ibid., 2 July 1907, pp. 71, 73

29. SA, HGS 2/01, Ernest R. Graham to Selfridge, 11 Feb 1908

30. Architectural Record, vol. 26, Dec 1909, p. 422

31. Builders’ Journal & Architectural Engineering, 6 Oct 1909, p. 263

32. Pound, pp. 39–40

33. Architectural Record, vol. 26, Dec 1909, pp. 417–27

34. RIBA Journal, 7 Nov 1908, p. 34: Biographical Dictionary of Architects in

Canada 1800–1950, sub Swales

35. The Times, 12 March 1909, p. 11

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37

36. Builders’ Journal & Architectural Engineering, 6 Oct 1909, pp. 258–63, 267:

Burnham to Swales, 25 Oct 1909, Art Institute of Chicago

37. BN, 8 Nov 1907, p. 637

38. Architectural Record, vol. 26, Dec 1909, p. 423

39. Burnham to Swales, 29 Sept 1909, Art Institute of Chicago

40. Charles Moore, Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities, 1921, vol. 2,

pp. 32–3

41. WDP 1/3/1656/41/19: Draper’s Record, 22 Aug 1908

42. Daily Graphic, 14 Nov 1908

43. Concrete and Constructional Engineering, vol. 4, 1909, pp. 9–26

44. Ibid., p. 13: Jonathan Clarke, Early Structural Steel in London Buildings, 2014,

pp. 247–8

45. AR, June 1909, pp. 292–6: B, 23 Jan 1909, p. 92

46. Jeanne Catherine Lawrence, ‘Steel Frame Architecture versus the London

Building Regulations: Selfridges, the Ritz, and American Technology’,

Construction History, vol. 6, 1990, pp. 23–46

47. SA, Boxes 91, 0181

48. B, 3 April 1909, p. 469

49. SA, HGS 2/01, Ernest R. Graham to Selfridge, 11 Feb 1908

50. Daily Express, 13 March 1909

51. The Organizer, April 1909

52. FT, 17 July 1908

53. Williams, p. 87

54. Pound, p. 16: Honeycombe, p. 80

55. Paddy Kitchen, A Most Unsettling Person, 1975, pp. 224–6

56. SA, Selfridges scrapbook, March 1909 to April 1911; Sel/277c: LCC Mins,

18 Oct 1910, pp. 644–5, 25 Oct 1910, pp. 703–4: Honeycombe, p. 161

57. FT, 14 June 1909, 1 June 1910, 6 April 1911: SA, 1/a

58. Pound, p. 113: Honeycombe, p. 43

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38

59. FT, 14 June 1909: SA, 74/d: LCC Mins, 3 June 1913, p. 1242, 17 March 1914,

p. 695

60. Pound, p. 118: Honeycombe, p. 31: Carmarthen Weekly Reporter, 5 Dec 1902:

SA, deeds passim, also 277c


62. Information on this point gratefully received from David Walker

63. FT, 24 Feb 1915: Pound, p. 133

64. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1181

65. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA6/6/1–5: Philip Tilden, True Remembrances,

1954, p. 113: information from James Bettley: Felix Barker & Ralph Hyde,

London As It Might Have Been, 1982, pp. 211–2

66. Honeycombe, p. 32: SA, enquiry file, photographs of drawings formerly in

possession of Duke, Simpson & MacDonald, architects

67. SA, M2 (Minute Book of Selfridge & Co., April 1923); The Observer, 11

March 1923

68. Herbert Furst, The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn, 1924, pp. 163–75:

Weekly Dispatch, 15 April 1923: Rodney Brangwyn, Brangwyn, 1978, pp. 213–5

69. HEA, Selfridges album, AL0140: RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1182

passim

70. Portman Estate Minutes, 5 May & 9 June 1920

71. B, 26 Sept 1930, p. 540

72. SA, FIN/3/12: B, 18 May 1923, p. 809: The Observer, 11 March 1923: DSR:

POD

73. AJ, 9 Dec 1925, p. 854

74. AJ, 18 Feb 1920, pp. 221–2; 3 Jan 1923, pp. 84–7; 9 Dec 1925, pp. 853–66

75. HEA, BL25721–6

76. AJ, 9 Dec 1925, p. 853

77. B, 18 May 1923, p. 809

78. SA, 277c (blue folder)

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39

79. HEA, Selfridges album, AL0140: SA, 277b: B, 21 May 1926, p. 833:

Honeycombe, p. 149

80. SA, 277c: AJ, 15 May 1929, pp. 751–8

81. Honeycombe, pp. 156–9

82. Louise Irvine & Paul Atterbury, Gilbert Bayes Sculptor 1872–1953, 1998, pp.

151, 154, 178

83. AJ, 15 May 1929, pp. 751–7: Honeycombe, pp. 156–9: John Compton, ‘The

Night Architecture of the Thirties’, Journal of the Decorative Arts, no. 4, 1980, p.

42

84. SA, 277b

85. ODNB, sub Sudell


87. AJ, 5 April 1933, pp. 469–70

88. Portman Estate Minutes, 1921–3 passim


90. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1183/7–11, 1184/1–5

91. StMBC Mins, 11 Dec 1930, pp. 65–7, 25 June 1931, pp. 378–80

92. B, 15 Aug 1930, p. 277, 2 Sept 1931, p. 28, 12 Oct 1931, p. 640

93. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA1184/7

94. Honeycombe, pp. 82, 85

95. David Chipperfield Architects, Selfridges Retail Limited, Design and

Access Statement, May 2015

96. Honeycombe, pp. 107–9, 153, 155

97. Blueprint, Feb 2002, p. 17

98. The Times, 12 May 2004

99. B, 29 June 2012, p. 11, 28 Feb 2014, p. 11: AJ, 13 June 2014, p. 18

100. David Chipperfield Architects, Selfridges Retail Limited, Design and

Access Statement, May 2015: http://djaorakitine.com (2018): information

from Melda Bur, Selfridges’ Director of Store Design, 2018

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40

Chapter 11

456–556 Oxford Street and 1–7 Marble Arch

1. MDR 1760/2/434, 1760/3/461

2. FT, 21 June 1921, 23 June 1922

3. PEA, P/E1/1/2, 13 Feb 1918, p. 82

4. Ibid., p. 195

5. Ibid., pp. 239, 244, 248

6. Ibid., 29 Oct 1929, p. 234

7. Ibid,, 20 Jan 1932, p. 55; 7 June 1933, p. 102

8. RB: Tallis: MDR

9. PEA, P/E1/3/7–8

10. MDR 1757/4/237, 1758/1/6, 1760/1/396, 1760/2/128, 1760/3/399, 461,

524, 1760/4/46, 145, 1762/3/399

11. PEA, P/E1/4/1: MDR 1756/4/222: Daily Advertiser, 2 March 1772: WCA,

D Misc.46: Sheppard, p. 20

12. Derby Mercury, 6 April 1764

13. Potter map of Marylebone parish, 1820

14. Morning Post, 25 Oct 1830

15. Sporting Life, 15 March 1906

16. PEA, P/E1/12/3/1: HEA, BL20702

17. PEA, P/E1/1/3, 1/4/2: LMA, LMA/4415/1/1–2: Liverpool Echo, 10

January 1940: Western Daily Press, 14 October 1950

18. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/06/063708/01

19. B, 7 Oct 1932, pp. 586–7

20. Asa Briggs, Marks and Spencer 1884–1984, 1984, pp. 22, 35, 42

21. Marks & Spencer Archive, S392/11/6 (Simon Marks cited by Ian Ross,

‘Marble Arch: the Story of a Marks & Spencer Store’, June 2002); S392/11/34:

Morrison, pp. 196, 198, 229

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41

22. The Times, 5 November 1930

23. Marks & Spencer Archive, S392/11/23, 35: Evening News, 5 November

1930

24. Contract Journal, 22 October 1970: PEA, P/E1/1/3, 4: Lewis & Hickey,

Sixty-Two Years’ Association with Marks & Spencer, 1984: Marks & Spencer

Archive, S392/11/25

25. Marks & Spencer Archive, S392/11/19, 25; P1/1/201; P2/87/174; Marble

Arch Blue Album: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/06/063708/01–05;

GLC/AR/BR/17/063708/01–04; GLC/AR/DS/03/0989

26. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/06/63104/01; B/GLCC/051, 052

27. FT, 13 Dec 1954; 13 July 1956; 22 April & 13 May 1958, 16 May 1961

28. WP: Building Design, 30 March 2001, p. 4

29. Goad Insurance Maps, 1892

30. TNA, PROB11/1853/409: Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 18 Dec 1828:

POD

31. LMA CLC/B/192/F/001/MS11936/445/816253

32. www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/30541 (2018): Dublin Daily Express, 30

Dec 1908: Barnet Press, 9 Oct 1909: Sporting Times, 20 Feb 1909

33. www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/30541 (2018):

http://lukemckernan.com (2018): The Stage, 9 March 1933, p. 19

34. PEA, P/E1/4/2

35. FT, 22 Oct 1932: WCA, 2205/3

36. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/6/071902/1–2: ABN, 16 June 1933, p. 299: B, 17 Nov

1933, p. 799; 15 Sept 1933, p. 431

37. FT, 2 Nov 1934

38. B, 2 Nov 1934, pp. 765, 769, 771

39. FT, 20 June 1961, 24 Sept 1982

40. ODNB

41. The Times, 24 April & 14 Aug 1941: POD

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42

42. RB: Horwood’s map of London, 1819 edn: WCA, DD2529: PEA,

P/E1/4/1: ODNB

43. POD

44. LT Museum: LMA, Acc.1297/CLR1/3

45. LT Museum: LT Corporate Archives, 1203/90, 115

46. Cumberland Hotel souvenir brochure, LMA

47. LMA, ACC/3527/432 (The Times of India, 4 July 1933)

48. PEA, P/E1/1/1

49. LMA, Lyons Annual Report 1927

50. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/65981; GLC/AR/BR/19/3303: ABN, 27 Oct 1933,

pp. 100–4, 29 Dec 1933, pp. 355–66: AR, Jan 1934, pp. 13–17: B, 3 Nov 1933 p.

702, 22 Dec 1933 pp. 986–7

51. J. G. Links, ‘Oliver Bernard, the Barbican and Me’, in Thirties Society

Journal, no. 5, 1985, pp. 2–7

52. LMA, ACC/3527/432 (Cape Times, 12 Nov 1932; New York Herald, 20 Aug

1933; Hotel Monthly, Oct 1933, p. 22)

53. ABN, 27 Oct 1933, p. 100, 29 Dec 1933, pp. 355–66: B, 8 Jan 1932, pp. 90,

104: 22 Dec 1933, pp. 978, 980, 982, 985–90: AJ, 14 Dec 1933, p. 752

54. FT, 21 Oct 2003: AJ, 2 Sept 2004, p. 16: FX, Jan 2004, issue 128, pp. 78–83

55. FX, Jan 2005, issue 139, pp. 83–6; June 2007, issue 159, pp. 38–9

56. Caterer & Hotelkeeper, 26 March–1 April 2010, p. 6

57. Estates Gazette, 18 June 2016, p. 32

58. PEA, P/E1/11/2

59. Oracle and Daily Advertiser, 7 March 1799: Morning Post, 1 Aug 1818

60. PEA, Red Lease Book South: Public Advertiser, 25 May 1770

61. Public Advertiser, 14 June 1771

62. PEA, Red Lease Book South; P/E1/3/260–266: Morning Chronicle, 13 July

1798

63. Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 22 June 1785: PEA, Red Lease Book

South

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43

64. PEA, Red Lease Book South: Public Advertiser, 11 Nov 1773 etc

65. University of Manchester, letter of 18 Oct 1790, GB 133 HAM/1/4/2/16:

WCA, Acc 2022/1

66. Colvin: Carmarthen RO, Cawdor Box 139

67. I. Bignamini, & C. Hornsby, Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century

Rome, 2010, pp. 249–51: CL, 14 June 1984, pp. 1746–8: A Dictionary of British and

Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800, Compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by

John Ingamells, 1997: W. G. Constable, John Flaxman, 1755–1826, 1927, pp. 33–4:

RB: Land Tax

68. Morning Post 14 July 1835, 11 March 1836: Blackburn Standard, 29 Nov 1837

69. Morning Post, 7 Feb 1846

70. Constance Battersea, Reminiscences, 1922, pp. 172–3, 195–6, 256–7, 438–9

71. Ibid., pp. 172–3, 195

72. P. Metcalf, The Park Town Estate and the Battersea Tangle, 1978: Survey of

London, vol. 50, 2013, pp. 151–4

73. DSR

74. Constance Battersea, p. 197

75. The Times, 14 July 1894, 22 May 1926

76. The Times, 21 June 1897, 18 April 1898, 9 Oct 1909, 1 March 1910: ‘A

Foreign Resident’ [T. H. S. Escott], Society in the New Reign, 1904, pp. 191ff.:

ODNB

77. B, 27 March 1931, pp. 574–8: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/03/1020;

GLC/AR/BR/06/104955/01

78. ABN, 22 Aug 1930, pp. 242–3

79. ILN, 8 Dec 1928, pp. 1074, 1108

80. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/4062/01–3; GLC/AR/BR/22/BA/101296/01–2

81. http://www.theatreorgans.com (2018)


83. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1830 & 12786 (2018)

84. Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2016

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44

85. Evening Standard, 1 April 2016: vinoly.com/works/marble-arch-place

(2018): Building, 23 May 2016: WP

Chapter 12

Oxford Circus



3. John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect, 1980, p. 130

4. TNA, CRES26/171: see also Summerson, p. 82

5. Ibid., CRES26/18

6. Ibid., CRES26/171

7. Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, Chapter 18

8. Morning Post, 9 April 1829: TNA, B3/616

9. TNA, CRES26/171

10. Ibid., CRES26/3 (6 Nov 1816, 8 June 1817), 26/127

11. Ibid., CRES26/171

12. Ibid,, CRES26/128, April 1816, April 1818

13. Ibid., CRES26/128, Aug–Nov 1816; CRES26/3, Nov 1816–Feb 1817

14. Ibid., CRES26/173; also 26/171, March 1816

15. Ibid., CRES26/173

16. Morning Post, 13 April 1820

17. Summerson, p. 138

18. TNA, CRES26/127

19. POD: Morning Post, 12 Aug 1842, 22 Sept 1849: The Examiner, 20 Oct 1849

20. James Elmes, Metropolitan Improvements, 1827, p. 99

21. TNA, CRES26/171

22. The Times, 14 & 15 Nov 1842

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45

23. The Standard, 19 Dec 1842

24. The Times, 2 Jan 1843: TNA, CRES2/705

25. Leicester Chronicle, 14 Jan 1843


27. Daily News, 28 Feb 1872: Morning Post, 27 Feb & 1 March 1872: The Graphic,

9 March 1872

28. StMBC Mins, 19 Jul 1906, p. 613

29. Adburgham, pp. 65–7: POD: Census

30. FT, 21 Dec 1900

31. TNA, LRRO1/4019: Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, ill. 594

32. TNA, CRES35/3175

33. Ibid.

34. A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture, 1985, p. 344: B, 29 Dec 1900, p. 590

35. Pall Mall Gazette, 29 April 1895: FT, 27 April 1895, 22 April 1899, 9 May

1901, etc.

36. TNA, CRES35/3175

37. Id.

38. B, 15 Sept 1911, p. 302

39. TNA, CRES35/3175, 3176

40. Ibid., CRES35/3730: WDP 2/1151/3

41. Ibid., CRES35/3723–5

42. Ibid., CRES35/3726: POD: The Times, 15 Sept 1961

43. TNA, LRRO1/4052; T1/11923/10847; T161/124/11: The Times. 23 May

1922: FT, 22 May 1922, 15 Nov 1930

44. POD

45. LCC Mins, 5 May 1959, p. 278: ABN, 24 Aug 1960, p. 231: WDP 2/1015/5,

6; 2/R0293

46. TNA, CRES35/3726

47. WCA, 2273–1 (HdeW Maps G), c.1807

48. TNA, CRES43/115

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46


50. BDCE: POD: Daily News, 28 Jan 1859: The Times, 31 Jan 1860: Census

51. BN, 6 Aug 1858, p. 797: The Spectator, 6 Nov 1858; ILN, 6 Nov 1858, pp. 440,

442: Illustrated News of the World, 27 Nov 1858: Art Journal, 1 Dec 1858, pp. 366–

7

52. MBW Mins, 19 Feb 1858, p. 171, 7 May 1858, pp. 323–4

53. The Spectator, 6 Nov 1858

54. ILN, 6 Nov 1858, pp. 440, 442

55. The Spectator, 6 Nov 1858


57. The Era, 27 May 1866: The Graphic, 29 April 1876: Morning Post, 28 April

1876: B, 22 April 1882, p. 503: TNA, CRES35/3731

58. Census: Adburgham, p. 42

59. Census: Morning Post, 4 June 1851 etc.

60. Morning Chronicle, 13 Dec 1860: B, 12 Sept 1863, p. 653

61. TNA, CRES38/1639, 1640: Adburgham, p. 67

62. Morning Post, 20 Jan & 28 March 1874: TNA, CRES 38/1639, 1640

63. Drapers’ Record, 28 Aug 1937, p. 40

64. Morning Post, 28 April 1876: The Standard, 25 May 1889

65. POD: DSR

66. ILN, 25 April 1891, p. 547: B, 17 Jan 1891, p. 56: LCC Mins, 22 July 1890, p.

690: DSR: TNA, CRES35/2397

67. The Standard, 1 & 2 Nov 1895: TNA, CRES38/1639 (schedule to 1896 trust

deed)

68. Reginald Pound, Selfridge, 1960, p. 83

69. FT, 22 March 1904: WCA, Acc.2233/101, Decorative Contracts by Warings

(Waring & Gillow Ltd), n.d., pp. 158–65

70. TNA, CRES35/3731

71. Ibid., CRES35/3731–3733: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/042266/01

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47

72. TNA, CRES35/3733: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039995/01 & 02,

17/042266/01: The Times, 15 Jan 1923, 19 May 1923, 14 Jan 1924: B, 11 May

1923, p. 770

73. A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture, 1985, p. 203

74. E. Montizambert, London Discoveries in Shops and Restaurants, 1924

75. Information on the restaurant murals received from Larry Malcic of HOK

Architects, who had them restored in the 1990s

76. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039995/01


78. The Times, 31 July 1944: WDP 2/1015/1, 2

79. FT, 17 Feb 1947, 25 March 1947, 13 Dec 1947, 6 & 23 March 1948, 19 June

1948

80. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Selfridge (2018)

81. John Carnelley, George Smart and Nineteenth-Century London Concert Life,

2015, pp. 16–17

82. Ralph Rylance, The Epicure’s Almanack {1815}, ed. Janet Ing Freeman, 2012,

p. 116

83. LMA, Acc.1297/CLR1/1, 2

84. Anthony Bateman & Jeffrey Hill, The Cambridge Companion to Cricket, 2011,

p. 42: James Pycroft, The Cricket Field, 1854, p. 100: Horwood: POD

85. Mike Horne, ‘The Story of a Station – Oxford Circus’, 2015, from

http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/Oxo.pdf (2017): WDP 2/0997/10

86. WDP 2/0997/12

87. Tramway & Railway World, 11 June 1914, pp. 442–4: Charles E. Lee, Seventy

Years of the Central Line, 1970, p. 25: Horne, op. cit.

88. Horne, op. cit.: The Times, 6 Aug 1963

89. Horne, op. cit.

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Chapter 13



2. Id.

3. TNA, PROB10/7425/4: WCA, 1859/1

4. BM, Heal Collection, 120.29: Graham Pollard, The Earliest Directory of the

Book Trade by John Pendred (1785), 1955

5. V & A, Prints & Drawings, E.334-1967

6. www. londonstreetviews.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/baronto-alabaster-

warehouse (2017)

7. B, 24 Dec 1859, p. 839, 11 June 1864, p. 430: The Graphic, 28 June 1890: BM,

Prints & Drawings, 1935,0522.2.1: Jacob Larwood & John Camden Hotten, The

History of Signboards, 1866 edn, p. 456: POD

8. BM, Prints and Drawings, 1880,1113.4451: POD

9. WCA, Acc.1749, Box 4

10. Judith Collins, Paolozzi, 2014, p. 255

11. B, 20 Aug 1887, p. 286: MBW Mins, 29 June 1888, p. 1149: WDP 2/0091/10

12. LMA, Acc.1297/CLR1/1, 1/2: B, 14 Jan 1927, p. 88

13. The Mole, 29 June 1907 (LT Museum Archives): TNA, LRRO1/2608

14. LT Museum, notes on history of Tottenham Court Road Station, c.2001:

Charles E. Lee, Seventy Years of the Central Line, 1970, p. 26

15. LT Museum, notes on history of Tottenham Court Road Station, c.2001: LT

Corporate Archives, 1266/084

16. LT Corporate Archives, 1203/088

17. Robin Spencer, Eduardo Paolozzi, Writings and Interviews, 2000, p. 258

18. LT Corporate Archives, 2032/028

19. WP: www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/tottenham-court-road (2017)

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20. WP: www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/tottenham-court-road (2017):

www.hawkinsbrown.com/projects/tottenham-court-road-osd (2017)

21. WP: www.derwentlondon.com/properties/1-oxford-street:

www.ahmm.co.uk/projectDetails/96/Soho-Place (2018)

22. B, 25 Sept 1886, p. 448:

http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/k

(2018)

23. POD: WDP 2/0091/11

24. WCA, Acc.1749, Box 4: HEA, BL20792/1:

www.map.londonssilentcinemas.com (2018): B, 17 April 1925, p. 616

25. WCA, Acc. 1749, Box 2: POD: HEA, BL20792/2

26. WP: www.emperorint.com (2018)

27. HEA, BL27103: WDP 2/0091/17: RIBA Drawings Collection,

PA862/11/1–3: B, 7 Sept 1923, p. 381

28. HEA, BL20792/3: WDP 2/0092/1: RIBA Nomination Papers, Gilbert &

Constanduros

29. HEA, BL22479: WDP 2/0092/3

30. HEA, BL22479: WDP 2/0092/5: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/22/BA/034394

31. Tallis: WDP 2/0092/6: WP: Allen Eyles & Keith Skone, London's West End

Cinemas, 2014 edn, p. 41: POD

32. B, 26 Oct 1872, p. 855: MBW Mins, 27 Nov 1874, p. 591, 11 Dec 1874, p. 661,

29 Jan 1875, p. 123: HEA, BL26533–5: POD: WDP 2/0092/8

33. B, 21 June 1890, p. 459: Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966, p. 127:

www.pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Soho (2017)

34. WDP 2/0092/11: ABN, 23 June 1950, pp. 647–50: AJ, 27 July 1950, p. 184

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Chapter 14



2. The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Rolt, 1939, pp. 21–2

3. POD


5. Beard & Gilbert, p. 1005: B, 3 Aug 1861, p. 540: WDP 2/0992/13:

http://dolphinariahistory.weebly.com/london-dolphinarium.html (2017)

6. B, 7 May 1892, p. 367: HEA, BL15476/1: WDP 2/0992/13 (bis)

7. Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966, p. 60: https://highroadbaptist.org/history-2

(2017)

8. POD

9. LCC Mins, 19 July 1898, p. 910, 10 May 1910, p. 1037: The Times, 2 Nov 1899:

B, 4 June 1904, p. 608: HEA, BL20271: POD

10. Peter Scott, ‘Mr Drage, Mr Everyman, and the Creation of a Mass Market

for Domestic Furniture in Interwar Britain’, Economic History Review, vol. 62,

no. 4, 2009, pp. 802–27

11. The Times, 12 July & 6 Dec 1912: POD

12. The Times, 4 Sept 1922, etc.

13. Ibid., 11 & 15 March 1926, etc., down to 26 April 1932

14. Ibid., 8 Dec 1928

15. Ibid., 27 Feb 1929

16. ABN, 9 Jan 1931, pp. 81–5: WDP 2/0993/1


18. WDP 2/0993/1–5: Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966, p. 127

19. Beard & Gilbert

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20. www.npg.org.uk/research/conservation/directory-of-british-

framemakers (2017): LMA, MBO/PLANS/518: The Standard, 11 May 1843: B,

16 Feb 1867, p. 120: POD

21. B, 5 Nov 1904, p. 466: HEA, BL20585: WDP 2/0993/6

22. WCA, Acc.97/5: WDP 2/0993/6–7

23. WP: RIBAJ, June 2016, p. 78

24. WP: BD, 16 Aug 2013, p. 5

25. www.hawkinsbrown.com/projects/crossrail-tottenham-court-road (2018):

WP

Chapter 15


1. Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966, Chapter 12

2. MDR 1715/4/37–9, 1717/6/122, 1730/3/194: Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966,

p. 293

3. Beard & Gilbert

4. WCA, L135/63: Census: Mark Westgarth, A Biographical Dictionary of

Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers, (Journal of the Regional

Furniture Society, vol. 23), 2009, p. 97

5. G. C. Williamson, Murray Marks and his Friends, 1919, pp. 10–11 etc.:

Westgarth, pp. 135–6: Clive Wainwright, ‘”A gatherer and disposer of other

men's stuffe”: Murray Marks, connoisseur and curiosity dealer’, Journal of the

History of Collections, vol. 14, 2002, pp. 161–76: POD: Census

6. Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, 2010 edn, p. 438

7. BN, 21 March 1879, p. 319

8. POD

9. BN, 4 Sept 1908, p. 329: HEA, BL20586/1

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10. B, 20 Aug 1887, p. 282

11. POD

12. J. H. Cardwell, Two Centuries of Soho, 1898, pp. 200–3

13. Dickens’s Dictionary of London, 1879 edn

14. TNA, LRRO1/2418: Census

15. BA, 19 Sept 1890, pp. 203–5: B, 27 Sept 1890, p. 243: information kindly

supplied by Annie Creswick Dawson

16. Survey of London, vol. 33, 1966, p. 290: Jon Wallsgrove, notes for the Greater

London Industrial Archaeology Society, Aug 1985, found at

www.glias.org.uk/news/099news.html (2017)

17. TNA, CRES35/2194–6

18. Morning Post, 29 Jan & 4 Feb 1887

19. TNA, BT31/14829/22778

20. Ibid., CRES35/2196

21. B, 18 Dec 1886, p. 898: WCA, Acc.1871


23. WDP 2/0994/4

24. TNA, CRES35/2196: W. Hanneford-Smith, The Architectural Work of Sir

Banister Fletcher, 1934, p. 10: POD

25. TNA, CRES65/161–4: WDP 2/0994/2

26. www.emperorint.com (2018)

Chapter 16


1. TNA, E317/Middx/39, p. 11

2. Survey of London, vol. 31, 1963, pp. 230–1, 243

3. Ibid., p. 243

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4. Id.

5. Ibid., pp. 231–2, 243–4

6. POD

7. WDP 2/0994/5

8. WDP 2/0994/6: The Times, 1 March 1937, 13 June 1955

9. BN, 4 March 1910, p. 307

10. WDP 2/0994/7–8: Robert J. Hercock & George A. Jones, Silver by the Ton:

The History of Ilford Limited, 1879–1979, 1979, p. 84

11. B, 8 Sept 1883, p. 339: WDP 2/0995/1

12. BN, 8 Oct 1886, p. 522: DSR: WDP 2/0995/2: POD

13. WP: Property Week, 22 Aug 2014

14. POD: Tallis: K. Baedeker, London and its Environs, 1879 edn, p. 21: HEA,

BL26557

15. WP

16. LCC Mins, 5 Oct 1897, p. 977: POD

17. WP

18. Ralph Rylance, The Epicure’s Almanack (1815), ed. Janet Ing Freeman, 2012,

p. 235

19. POD: HEA, BL26557/2: RIBA Nomination Papers, R. H. Kerr: WDP

2/0995/4

20. WDP 2/0995/5: ABN, 14 June 1956, pp. 654–7: AR, Feb 1957, p. 106

21. WDP 2/0995/7

22. Morning Post, 30 June 1808, 30 May 1836, 14 May 1840, 26 Jan 1842, 29 May

1848 etc: TNA, PROB11/2031/9

23. The Standard, 26 Jan 1858

24. POD: WDP 2/0995/8

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Chapter 17


1. Survey of London, vol. 31, 1963, pp. 250–1, 266, 268

2. MDR 1716/3/66: Survey of London, vol. 31, 1963, pp. 243–4

3. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/19/627: ODNB

4. John Martin Robinson, The Wyatts, 1979, pp. 157–60: BM, Prints and

Drawings, Heal Collection 32.65:

www.npg.org.uk/research/conservation/directory-of-british-framemakers

(2017): POD

5. Morning Post & Daily Advertiser, 1 June 1786: UBD

6. www.bifmo.data.history.ac.uk

7. Beard & Gilbert (who have Thomas Eyre at No. 352, probably in error): 1784

directory: UBD: POD: Tallis: WCA, 789/011: Ralph Rylance, The Epicure’s

Almanack {1815}, ed. Janet Ing Freeman, 2012, p. 107

8. Public Advertiser, 6 May 1772: Diary or Woodfall’s Register, 12 May 1789, 31

Oct 1792: Morning Chronicle, 5 June 1792: True Briton, 24 April 1798

9. POD: Morning Post, 5 Jan 1820, 18 July 1840 etc.: LMA, LCC photograph of

187 and 189 Oxford Street, 3977c (1911)

10. Allen Eyles & Keith Skone, London's West End Cinemas, 2014 edn, p. 17:

Lauren Rabinowitz, in R. Abel, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, 2005, pp. 293–

4: www.map.londonssilentcinemas.com (2017)

11. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/7/537, 19/627

12. Ibid.

13. Cinema News & Property Gazette, 29 January 1913, p. 21, quoted in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_1-2-3_(cinema) (2017)

14. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/7/1627: ODNB

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15. E. Coxhead writing in Close Up, quoted by Lucy Mazdon, ‘King of the

Middle Way: Continental Cinema on British Screens’, in Sally Faulkner (ed.),

Middlebrow Cinema, 2016, p. 188

16. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/7/1627, 19/627

17. ABN, 25 Feb 1954, p. 232: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/7/1627:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_1-2-3_(cinema) (2017)

18. ABN, 25 Feb 1954, pp. 232–6: The Times, 18 July 1987: The World of Interiors,

May 1988, pp. 180–5

19. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/7/1627: V & A Museum, S.4198-2013: The World of

Interiors, May 1988, pp. 180–5

20. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/7/1627: What’s On In London, 1 May 1964

21. The Independent, 6 May 1996

22. WP: The Guardian, 13 April 2016

23. Israel Sieff, Memoirs, 1970, pp. 141–60

24. Neil Burton, ‘Robert Lutyens and Marks & Spencer’, Thirties Society

Journal, no. 5, 1985, pp. 8–17: Sheffield Independent, 19 June 1926: ODNB: HE

Historians’ files, WM xxx: Asa Briggs, Marks & Spencer, 1884–1984, 1984, p. 47:

Goronwy Rees, St Michael: A History of Marks and Spencer, 1969, pp. 80–4

25. Lewis & Hickey, Sixty-Two Years Association with Marks & Spencer, 1984:

Morrison, p. 230

26. Burton, op. cit.: Morrison, pp. 229–37

27. The Chain and Multiple Store, 22 October 1938

28. Burton, op. cit.: Marks & Spencer Archive, S392/20/8, S392/20/9,

S392/20/12: ABN, 28 Oct 1938, pp. 105–8: Morrison, p. 235: Rees, p. 90

29. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/1/65075/01, 17/041472/01, 23/65075/02: B, 12 Jan

1934, p. 101

30. Marks & Spencer Archive, S392/20/3, S392/20/4, S392/20/8, S392/20/28,

P1/228/24; HO/10/2/3/5/3: Paul Bookbinder, Simon Marks: Retail

Revolutionary, 1993, p. 123

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31. WP: Marks & Spencer Archive, S392/20/20; S392/20/22: HE List

Description, List Entry no. 1393442, Sept 2009: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/17/041472/1–2, 23/065075/1–7

32. The Times, 15 Oct 1857, 26 March 1858: Monthly Advertiser, Nov 1860:

www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/industrial-history/drinks-trade/page1.htm

(2017)

33. ILN, 23 Nov 1861, pp. 522–3: MBW Mins, 10 May 1861, pp. 343–4, 7 June

1861, p. 417: Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, p. 648

34. 1784 directory: UBD: TNA, PROB11/1548/409:

www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/linnell (2017)

35. Daily News, 9 Aug 1862

36. Art Journal, n.s. vol.5, 1879, pp. 378–9

37. J. H. Duveen, The Rise of the House of Duveen, 1957

38. Ibid., pp. 40, 60–5, 75

39. POD

40. MBW Mins, 14 Jan 1881, p. 77, 3 June 1881, p. 909

41. Duveen, pp. 75–6

42. MBW Mins, 24 April 1885, p. 753: HEA, BL05816/2


44. Duveen, p. 75: MBW Mins, 21 Nov 1884, p. 725, 28 Nov 1884, pp. 744, 748–

9: BN, 8 May 1885, p. 726: BA, 19 Feb 1886, p. 168

45. Duveen, pp. 112–3: POD

46. HEA, BL13317/1

47. LCC Mins, 30 Nov 1897, p. 1312

48. POD

49. B, 15 Feb 1929, p. 352, 16 Sept 1938, p. 554: WDP 2/0995/10

50. WP: AJ, 18 March 2010, p. 12

51. DSR

52. POD

53. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/53359

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54. Architecture Today, June 2007, p. 93: B, 28 Nov 2008, p. 12

Chapter 18

The Pantheon

1. MDR 1732/2/8–10, 1773/4/336

2. TNA, C12/2306/44


4. TNA, C12/152/11

5. Ibid., C12/408/29, C12/387/19

6. Ibid., C12/408/29

7. Ibid., C12/387/19

8. Ibid., C12/387/19, 12/2003/28

9. Ibid., C12/387/19

10. Ibid., C12/387/19

11. Ibid., C12/2003/28

12. Ibid., C12/2003/28

13. ODNB

14. MDR 1772/6/323

15. Ibid., 1776/1/217

16. MDR 1774/4/491: ODNB

17. Ibid., C12/2003/28

18. TNA, C12/408/29: MDR 1772/7/130–1

19. TNA, C12/387/19, C12/2003/28

20. Ibid., C12/408/29

21. Ibid., C12/387/19

22. RB

23. Monthly Magazine, 1 Oct 1813, p.266

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24. T. F. Hunt, Architettura Campestre, 1827, p. xivn.: Survey of London, vol. 29,

1960, p. 347: John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746–1813), Architect to

George III, 2012, pp. 6–7

25. Gentleman’s Magazine, Sept 1813, p. 296

26. TNA, C12/387/19: MDR 1772/6/32: RB

27. TNA, C12/408/29: MDR 1791/2/162

28. TNA, C12/387/19

29. Public Advertiser, 23 Nov 1771: BL, 840 m.30 (Pantheon press cuttings, July

1772)

30. Robinson, pp. 17–18


32. MDR 1772/6/322, 1773/2/173, 1776/1/217

33. John Martin Robinson, The Wyatts, An Architectural Dynasty, 1979, pp. 28–9

34. TNA, C12/387/19: MDR 1775/1/355

35. TNA, C12/2003/28, C123/T24

36. Ibid., C123/T24

37. Ibid., C12/2003/28

38. Roscoe

39. Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 58.511: information from John

Martin Robinson, 2017

40. Sir John Soane’s Museum, Soane drawings, Drawer 18, Set 6: Mander &

Mitchenson Collection (University of Bristol), plan of Pantheon, 1831

41. Sir John Soane’s Museum, Soane drawings, Drawer 18, set 6: WCA, Box

47, no.31A

42. TNA, C12/2003/28: MDR 1835/7/309

43. Ibid., C12/408/29

44. Ibid., C12/2003/28

45. MDR 1794/6/132: TNA, C12/152/11

46. Horace Walpole,’s Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, ed. W. S. Lewis and

others, vol. 7, 1967, p. 210: APSD, vol. 7, 1887, article on James Wyatt

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47. Kenneth Garlick & Angus Macintyre, eds, The Diary of Joseph Farington,

vol. 3, 1979, col. 918

48. TNA, C123/T24

49. Ibid., C12/387/19, C12/2003/28

50. Ibid., C12/408/29

51. Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser, 29 Jan 1772

52. MDR 1791/2/163

53. Kenneth Garlick & Angus Macintyre, eds, The Diary of Joseph Farington,

vol. 3, 1979, col. 918

54. TNA, C12/408/29

55. Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser, 29 Jan 1772

56. Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W. S. Lewis, vol. 23, 1967, p. 298

57. Ibid., vol. 28, 1955, p. 31

58. Ibid., vol. 28, 1955, pp. 102, 102n.

59. The Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. J. E. Norton, vol. 1, 1956, p. 303

60. Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr Burney, vol. 2, 1948, pp. 177, 184

61. Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and

Literature, vol. 26, 1819, Pantheon article

62. Fanny Burney, Evelina, 1920 edn, p. 124

63. Passages from the Diaries of Mrs Philip Lybbe Powys, ed. Emily J. Climenson,

1899, p. 152

64. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, revised by L. F. Powell, vol. 2, 1934,

pp. 168–9: Public Advertiser, 30 March 1772

65. Rees, op. cit.

66. Mander & Mitchenson Collection, loc. cit., 19 Dec 1771

67. Town & Country Magazine, April 1781, pp. 171–2: BL, Pantheon press

cuttings, 1772: Enthoven Theatre Collection (V & A), Pantheon, 15 Jan 1774

68. MDR 1772/6/396, 448

69. TNA, C12/408/29

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70. Town & Country Magazine, April 1781, pp. 171–2: Gentleman’s Magazine,

1781, p. 190

71. BL, Pantheon press cuttings, passim

72. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 19 Feb 1783

73. Fanny Burney, op. cit., p. 125

74. BL, Pantheon press cuttings, 3 May 1774, 24 Feb 1775: Survey of London,

vol. 30, 1960, p. 452

75. Public Advertiser, 15 Jan 1774

76. Fanny Burney, op. cit., p. 124

77. Charles Burney, A General History of Music, vol. 4, 1789, p. 504

78. BL, Pantheon press cuttings, 1780–1

79. Ibid., 30 Sept 1777, 14 July 1781

80. Charles Burney, An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster

Abbey and the Pantheon in Commemoration of Handel, 1785, p. 46

81. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 17 Sept 1784, 7 March 1785, 2 April 1786

82. Morning Chronicle & London Advertiser, 20 July 1786


84. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 22 April 1788

85. Ibid., 28 & 29 Jan 1790

86. Rees, op. cit., vol.27, Vogler article; F. J. Fétis, Biographie universelle des

musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, vol. 8, 1865 edn, pp. 375–6

87. Survey of London, vol. 34, 1966, pp. 455–8: Colvin

88. Judith Milhous, Gabriella Dideriksen & Robert D. Hume, Italian Opera in

Late Eighteenth Century London, vol. 2, The Pantheon Opera and its Aftermath,

1789–1795, 2001

89. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, vol. 1, 1828, p. 91

90. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 14 July 1790, 17 Jan 1792: Survey of London,

vol. 29, 1960, p. 234

91. The Times, 7 July 1792, 29 June 1793: Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 17 Jan

1792

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92. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 29 July & 11 Aug 1790: The Times, 1 March

1791

93. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 13 Jan 1791: The Times, 29 June 1793

94. The Times, 7 July 1792 (which wrongly gives Edward Wyatt’s first name as

David): Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 6 July 1792

95. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 27 Aug 1790, 11 Feb 1791: Bryan's

Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, vol. 5, 1921 edn, p. 203: Enthoven Theatre

Collection (V & A), Description of all the Allegory painted for the Curtain of the

King's Theatre, Pantheon, 1791

96. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 16 Jan 1791: The Plan and Section of the Boxes

at the King's Theatre, Pantheon, 1791 (BL pressmark 118b 38(2)): Milhous,

Dideriksen &. Hume, p. 663

97. The Times, 3, 4, 5, 18, 20 & 21 Jan 1791: Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 3

Dec 1790

98. The Times, 22 Jan 1791: Rees, op. cit., vol. 26, 1819, Pantheon article

99. Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Musical Reminiscences, 1834, pp. 66–8

100. BL, Map Room, King's Topographical Collection, vol.25, 20–1–b: Milhous,

Dideriksen & Hume, p. 266, Plates 7 & 8

101. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., plan of 1831

102. Milhous, Dideriksen & Hume, p. 262

103. The Times, 22 Jan 1791

104. Milhous, Dideriksen & Hume, pp. 286–7

105. The Times, 13, 21 July 1791

106. Tate Gallery, D00121–3, 17127


108. Ibid., pp. 146–7

109. The Times, 7 July 1792, 29 June 1793

110. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 6 July 1792


112. MDR 1794/6/132: Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 8 Feb 1793

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113. Journal of the House of Commons, 11 Jan 1798, p. 216

114. The World, 6 June 1789: London Chronicle, 4 May 1797: Survey of London,

vol. 23, 1951, p. 70

115. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 21 Aug 1793

116. The Times, 10 Jan, 11 April 1795

117. Ibid., 23 Jan 1796

118. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., MS note by James Winston

119. MDR 1806/3/640

120. BL, Lord Chamberlain’s MS, theatrical index, vol. 1, passim

121. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., passim


123. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., prospectus, 1810, & 9 Aug 1811: TNA,

LC1/6, no.343


125. TNA, LC1/6, no.343; LC7/4, part 2

126. Bury & Norwich Post, 13 Dec 1809: TNA, LC7/4, part 2: MDR

1811/10/588: Colvin (sub Thomas Cundy): BDCE, vol. 1, p. 163

127. TNA, LC1/6, no.343; LC7/4, part 2: Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit.,

prospectus, 1812

128. TNA, LC7/4, part 2: MDR 1811/10/588: Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit.,

prospectus, 1812, & 17 Jan 1834

129. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., plan of 1831

130. BL, Lord Chamberlain’s MS, Theatrical Index, vol. 1, ff. 102–3


132. TNA, LC1/4, f.219, 1/5, no. 267

133. BL, Lord Chamberlain’s MS, Theatrical Index, vol.1, ff. 103–4: Mander &

Mitchenson, loc. cit., 8 May 1812

134. The Times, 15 June 1812

135. TNA, LC1/40, f.292, LC7/10, f. 8: BL, Lord Chamberlain’s MS, Theatrical

Index, vol. 1, f. 104

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137. TNA, LC1/5, no. 267: The Times, 4 June 1818

138. TNA, LC1/5, no. 267: BL, Lord Chamberlain’s MS, Theatrical Index, vol.

1, ff. 104–5: Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 15 Jan 1813

139. The Times, 23 July 1813

140. BL, Lord Chamberlain’s MS, Theatrical Index, vol. 1, ff. 104–5: Mander &

Mitchenson, loc. cit., July–Nov 1813

141. Robert Wilkinson, Theatrum Illustrata, 1825, p. 180

142. Journals of the House of Lords, vol. 49, pp. 771, 1024: Mander & Mitchenson,

loc. cit., 1814–15, passim

143. TNA, LC7/4, part 2

144. The Times, 4 June 1818

145. B, 3 Aug 1867, p. 568: S. L. Kotar & J. E. Gessler, Ballooning: A History,

1782–1900, 2010, p. 103

146. Morning Chronicle, 2 Nov 1824

147. TNA, LC1/15, no. 1127, LC1/44, f. 104

148. MDR 1805/2/305

149. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 1831, passim

150. B, 3 Aug 1867, p. 568

151. MDR 1835/5/370–2, 374; 1835/7/309

152. BDCE, vol. 1, pp. 32–3


154. Morning Chronicle, 9 Dec 1833

155. Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry, 1853 edn, pp. 304–6

and Plates XXIII, XXIV

156. Roscoe, p. 32

157. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 1834: The Times, 28 May 1834

158. Mander & Mitchenson, loc. cit., 25 Nov 1833

159. Morning Chronicle, 30 May 1834: Companion to the British Almanac for 1835,

pp. 243–4: Daily News, 1 July 1846: B, 3 Aug 1867, p. 568

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160. George Augustus Sala, Twice Around the Clock, 1859 edn, pp. 175–82

161. B, 25 May 1867, p. 377: POD

162. The Times, 16 Nov 1937: AR, Oct 1938, p. 199

Chapter 19


1. Morning Herald, 25 Nov 1789

2. POD

3. Charles Eyre Pascoe, London of To-day, an Illustrated Handbook for the Season,

1887 edn

4. The Standard, 10 Oct 1884

5. Illustrated London 1893, p. 179: Pascoe, 1893 edn, p. 101: LMA,

GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/1 & 2, GLC/AR/BR/23/060882/1: WDP 2/0996/1:

POD: Census

6. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/1, GLC/AR/BR/23/060882/1: POD

7. Reynold’s Newspaper, 24 Dec 1854: B, 8 Nov 1890, p. 376: Tallis: POD

8. London Gazette, 10 March 1885: HEA, BL05999, 06366–7, 06377: WCA,

Acc.1749/3 & 6

9. WCA, Acc.1749/3 & 6: WDP 2/0996/8: LCC Mins, 21 Jan 1913, pp. 77–8:

LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/1

10. WCA, Acc.1749/3: TNA, PROB11/1713/62: Illustrated London 1893, p. 233:

LCC Mins, 22 Jan 1907, p. 29: HEA, BL20144/1: WDP 2/0996/10, 11: POD

11. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/1, 2

12. Ibid., GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/1: WDP 2/0996/5, 7

13. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewoods_Mail_Order_Stores_Ltd_v_IRC

(2017)

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14. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/039098/3:

https://buildingourpast.com/2016/04/22/remembering-littlewoods-stores

(2017): POD

15. WP: https://carpenterlowings.com/portfolio_page/fin-façade (2017)

16. WDP 2/0996/12

17. LCC Mins, 30 June 1914, pp. 1595–6: WDP 2/0997/1: B, 14 Aug 1914, p.

181: POD

18. AJ, 30 July 2009, pp. 8–9, 10 Sept 2009, pp. 22–35

19. https://bifmo.data.history.ac.uk (2017)

20. Memoir of John Bell, 1872, reprinted from Pharmaceutical Journal, vol. 8, no.

12, 1849

21. The Chemist and Druggist, 30 July 1898, pp. 160–5

22. Wellcome Library, WA/HMM/Col/8, typescript recollections of John Bell

& Co., dated Oct 1930: Memoir of John Bell, regulations of c.1810

23. The Chemist and Druggist, 30 July 1898, pp. 160–5: Wellcome Library,

WA/HMM/Col/8, recollections of 1930 and memoir by Frederick E. Johnson,

undated

24. ODNB: ‘Sketch of the Life of Jacob Bell,’ Phamaceutical Journal, Sept 1859

25. Elsie Woodward Kassner, ‘Pharmaceutical History Brought to Light by a

Famous Misnamed Picture’, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association,

vol. 20, no. 3, March 1931, pp. 236–46: John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790–

1864): Life and Work, with a Catalogue, 1982, pp. 224, 243

26. Nigel Tallis & Kate Arnold-Forster, Pharmacy History, A Pictorial Record,

1991, pp. 11, 46–7: Census

27. WCA, Acc.1749, Boxes 6 & 7: Tallis & Arnold-Forster, pp. 46–7

28. WCA, Acc.1749, Boxes 6 & 7


30. The Times, 25 Sept and 29 Nov 1909, 7 Nov 1912

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31. BN, 5 Aug 1910, pp. 176–9: B, 23 July 1910, p. 111, 30 July 1910, p. 137:

LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/35372, 23/13798: WDP 2/0997/3:

www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/30873 (2017)

32. The Times, 7 Feb 1924, 19 Aug 1929, etc.

33. WDP 2/0997/3: LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/35372, 23/13798: www.

cinematreasures.org/theaters/30873 (2017)

34. The Times, 1 March 1957, 29 Jan 1962, 8 March 1967

35. www. cinematreasures.org/theaters/30873 (2017)

36. Public Advertiser, 9 Jan 1759

37. WDP 2/0997/6: POD

38. BN, 5 Nov 1886, p. 686: B, 17 July 1886, p. 114: WDP 2/0997/7, 8,

2/1021/11, 15: POD

Chapter 20


1. London Evening Post, 28–31 Dec 1728

2. Morning Advertiser, 12 July 1806

3. LMA, CLA/008/EM/04/020

4. Id.

5. Survey of London, vol. 51, 2017, ill. 265: LCC Mins, 17 Oct 1893, pp. 973–4, 10

April 1894, p. 394

6. Daily News, 29 April 1862 etc.: POD

7. Donald Dallas, James Purdey and Sons, 2013: ODNB

8. Lease and deed of covenant, 1826, in possession of James Purdey & Sons,

kindly made available by Nicholas Harlow

9. Dallas, pp. 47–50, 287–9: Survey of London, vol. 40, 1980, pp. 303–4

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10. A. V. Sugden & J. L. Edmondson, A History of English Wallpaper, 1926:

RIBA Drawings Collection, PB1312/PAP{118}: Companion to the British

Almanac, vol. 22, 1849, p. 249: Wyatt Papworth, John B. Papworth, 1879, p. 65:

WDP 2/0999/5

11. ODNB: Roscoe, pp. 160–1: Morning Chronicle, 22 April 1820

12. Tipperary Free Press, 29 June 1833: Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 9 July

1833

13. Morning Advertiser, 23 July 1847


15. ODNB


17. B, 2 Aug 1862, p. 555

18. The Standard, 15 Feb 1866: ILN, 24 Feb 1866, p. 177

19. Unless otherwise indicated, this account is based on that given in Hannah

Gay & William P. Griffith, The Chemistry Department at Imperial College London:

A History, 1845–2000, 2017


21. Morning Chronicle, 29 Feb 1856: The Times, 27 June 1856: LMA,

HO8/Q/1/1–3

22. Land and Building News, 14 June 1856, p. 300

23. LMA, HO8/Q/1/3: Survey of London, vol. 52, 2017, p. 667: Morning Post, 18

March 1904

24. WDP 2/0997/15, 16: TNA, CRES43/115; LRRO1/3971: B, 21 May 1915, p.

497: RIBA Nomination Papers, E. J. Tanner: Estates Gazette, 6 Feb 2016, p. 38

25. TNA, CRES35/3181: WDP 2/0998/1

26. E. M. Barraud, Barraud, the Story of a Family, 1967, p. 167: ODNB: Merry

England, Sept 1884, p. 1

27. B, 1 Sept 1894, p. 161

28. Ibid., 17 April 1875, p. 353

29. The Era, 5 March 1876

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30. MBW Mins, 28 Jan 1876, p. 122, 25 Feb 1876, pp. 270–2


32. Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Services, 8 March

1876, p. 183

33. Morning Post, 8 July 1879: The Standard, 26 July 1879: Pall Mall Gazette, 19

June 1880: The Times, 20 Dec 1884

34. Pall Mall Gazette, 18 March 1882

35. Salvation Army Heritage Centre, Regent Hall Corps files, The War Cry, 23

March 1882, and George Manning, ‘The Romance of the Rink’ (manuscript

history of the hall, c.1946–7)

36. B, 17 April 1886, p. 597

37. The War Cry, 23 March 1882: The Standard, 17 July 1889: Morning Post, 8 Feb

1890

38. Salvation Army Heritage Centre, photograph file C/REG File 3

39. WDP 2/0998/4: WCA, WCC Acc0097/5/446

40. POD: B, 1 Sept 1894, p. 161: WCA, WCC Acc0097/5/447

41. WP

42. WCA, WCC Acc0097/5/447

43. A, 26 April 1884 (tenders): WDP 2/0998/8, 9: WP: WCA, WCC,

Acc0097/5/448

44. Yorkshire Herald, 20 Jan 1893: The Standard, 21 Feb & 30 May 1893

45. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/006800: WDP 2/0998/10: B, 21 April 1894, p. 317:

WP: POD

46. B, 21 April 1900, p. 407: BN, 27 July 1900, p. 109: W. Shaw Sparrow, Flats,

Urban Houses and Cottage Homes, {1907}, p. 64 and plate

47. WDP 2/0751/06: Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 1 Sept 1909: Law

Journal Reports, vol. 113, pt 2, p. 257

48. WDP 2/0999/2: B, 2 Jan 1920, p. 29

49. Rodney Brangwyn, Brangwyn, 1978, pp. 266–8

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50. RIBA Nomination Papers, Percy W. Meredith: HEA, BL21169: POD: WDP

2/0999/3, 4: ABN, 23 Aug 1956, pp. 254–7

51. WDP 2/0999/5: WCA, C138 (The Times, 12 April 1957): The Independent, 4

Sept 1992: http://vintagefashionguild.org/label-resource/berkertex (2018)

52. WDP 2/1000/4: LCC Mins, 25 Oct 1921, p. 492

53. Kathryn A. Morrison, Woolworth’s 100 Years on the High Street, 2015, p. 40

54. WDP 2/1000/5–7: B, 7 March 1924, p. 377

55. Quoted in Morrison, Woolworth’s 100 Years on the High Street, 2015, p. 40, n.

14

56. Ibid., pp 173, 188

57. Daily Telegraph, 18 June 1993: Sunday Times, 16 Aug 2008: Design Week, 22

March 2016

58. LMA, MS 11936/363/562979: Morning Advertiser, 17 Oct 1835

59. WCA, C2030: Collage 317717

60. B, 3 May 1890, p. 329: LCC Mins, 22 April 1890, p. 332, 30 Sept 1890, pp.

777–8: WDP 2/1001/1: The Times, 23 Feb 1959

61. WP

62. LMA, COL/CC/CLC/02/63: A, 27 Sept 1884 (tenders): B, 23 May 1908, p.

604

63. The Car, 14 Sept 1904, p. ix: LCC Mins, 7 April 1908, pp. 876–7; 15–16 Dec

1908, p. 1410; 12–13 Oct 1909, p. 567; 13 Feb 1912, p. 333; 3 Nov 1912, p. 1078:

LMA, COL/CC/CLC/02/83, 84: POD

64. WCA, Acc. 2882, Parsons’ Colour Scheme Competition (1923) for a Vestibule:

Thomas Parsons and Sons Ltd: 150 Years of Paint and Varnish Manufacturing

1802–1952, p. 38: B, 1 Oct 1920, p. 364: The Times, 30 Jan 1924

65. B, 26 Nov 1881, p. 683: LCC Mins, 12 Dec 1905, p. 2070, 10 April 1906, p.

1031, 8 May 1906, p. 1195, 18 Dec 1906, pp. 1593–4: LMA,

COL/CC/CLC/02/79: WDP 2/1001/3: POD: WCA, WCC Acc0097/5/453

66. LCC Mins, 25 Feb 1890, p. 158, 12 March 1901, p. 331: POD

67. WDP 2/1001/5

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68. Ibid., 2/1001/6: Building Design, 15 Dec 2000, p. 5

69. WDP 2/1001/10, 11: WCA, WCC Acc0097/5/456: Estates Gazette, 5 Oct

1957, p. 409

70. WDP 2/1002/1

71. LMA, COL/CC/CLC/02/78: WDP 2/1002/2

72. WP

73. Morning Post, 10 Sept 1822, 22 July 1841: The Standard, 3 Oct 1843, etc.

74. LMA, COL/CC/CLC/49, 53–55

75. MBW Mins, 23 May 1873, p. 650: B, 31 Jan 1874, p. 95

76. LMA. COL/CC/CLC/02/62, 63: MBW Mins, 10 Aug 1883, pp. 373, 375:

WDP 2/1002/7: POD

77. AJ, 30 Jan 1936, pp. 191–4

78. The Times, 28 & 29 Dec 1937

79. RIBA Drawings Collection, PA230/6, 231/1–8

80. WDP 2/1002/7: AJ, 11 May 1939, pp. 763–7: B, 19 May 1939, pp. 945–7: AR,

July 1939, pp. 7–9: ABN, 23 June 1939, pp. 319–23: Rosemary Ind, Emberton,

1983, pp. 36–7

81. Design Week, 21 Oct 2013: WP

82. Property Week, 2 Feb 2017: The Guardian, 29 Dec 2018

83. LMA, COL/CC/CLC/02/74, 75: A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture,

1985, p. 298: Census: POD

Chapter 21


1. Survey of London, vol. 39, 1977, pp. 30, 203 (n. 315)

2. MDR 1754/3/212, 1755/3/503, 1757/1/362

3. Ibid.,1785/5/362; 1786/1/234; 1786/4/547; 1790/10/457, 488

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4. WCA, 1049/8

5. B, 2 Nov 1867, p. 796

6. Ibid,, 1049/5/15/21–2

7. Ibid.,1049/5/14/412–13, 15/21–2, 16/377–8

8. Ibid.,, 1049/5/24/527: 54 & 55 Vict. c. 196, sections 39, 40, 81, 96

9. WCA, 1049/5/26/327–8, 491, 27/87–8, 165–6, 461, 520, 28/57–8: LMA,

Acc.1297/CLR/1/1, 1/2: H. F. Parshall, E. Perry & W. Casson, ‘The Central

London Railway’, Traction and Transmission, nos 29–31, 1903, p. 17

10. WCA, 1049/5/28/58, 31/144, 33/309, 312, 371: LCC Mins, 1 May 1906, p.

1121, 22 May 1906, p. 1402: The Times, 15 Dec 1961, 16 July 1962

11. www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2016/11/28/bond-street-tube-stations-private-

tunnel-to-selfridges (2017)

12. Chapman Taylor Partners, The Grosvenor Estate Strategy for Mayfair and

Belgravia, 1971: Survey of London, vol. 39, 1977, pp. 80–1

13. LT Corporate Archives, 001244/011: B, 11 Jan 1980, pp. 52–5: The Times, 24

Aug 1981

14. www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/bond-street (2018)

15. WCA, 1049/5/23/183–4, 325, 328–9, 355: B, 22 Jan1887, p. 170, 27 Oct 1888,

p. 304: WDP 2/1002/13

16. Ralph Rylance, The Epicure’s Almanack {1815}, ed. Janet Ing Freeman, 2012,

pp. 113–4

17. Art Union, 1841: The Standard, 6 April 1844: ILN, 13 April 1844

18. WCA, 1049/5/18/17–18, 101–2, 131, 312, 479, 19/108–9

19. BA 36692 (1980 reference to file now lost)

20. WCA, 1049/5/20/53–4, 255–6: B, 26 June 1880, p. 811: A, 25 Dec 1880, p.

405

21. WCA, 1049/5/14/202, 314, 412–13, 15/21–2, 29, 33, 57, 16/190, 217, 359,

377–8, 17/41, 84, 279–80, 321: A, 11 Nov 1871, p. 244

22. Ibid., 1049/5/17/481–2, 496–7, 502, 18/116, 150: DSR

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23. Ibid., 1049/5/16/179, 285, 329, 366, 406, 416, 439–40, 484–5, 494, 529; 17/8,

66: A, 11 Nov 1871, p. 244

24. POD

25. C. K. Lyson, 'Some Aspects of the Historical Development and Present

Organisation of Voluntary Welfare Societies for Adult Deaf Persons in

England, 1840–1963', MA thesis, University of Liverpool, 1965

26. WCA, 1049/5/16/292: LMA, LMA/4172/A/11, Association in Aid of the

Deaf and Dumb, Annual Reports, 1863–70

27. WCA, 1049/5/16/83, 108, 292, 304–5, 390

28. Ibid., 1049/5/16/304, 391: LMA, LMA/4172/A/11, Annual Reports, 1869–

70

29. The Times, 27 June 1870, p. 8; 6 July 1870, p. 5

30. LMA, LMA/4172/A/11, Annual Reports, 1871–2: The Passing of St Saviour's

Oxford Street, London (1873–1922), pp. 4, 6: A, 24 Sept 1870, p. 174: B, 16 Sept

1871, p. 724: BN, 18 Dec 1874, pp. 722, 795

31. The Passing of St Saviour's, p. 4: DSR: WCA, 1049/5/19/166

32. The Passing of St. Saviour's, pp. 5–8

33. Grosvenor Archives (Eaton Hall), Duke's instruction book, 1919–22, pp.

152–6, 169

34. www.bdhs.org.uk/relocation-of-st-saviour-church-artefacts:

https://londondeafchurch.com/useful-info/st-saviours-history (2018)

35. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/06/51272, 23/96192: AJ, 15 Dec 1926, p. 745

36. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/06/56030

37. BN, 18 Dec 1857, p. 1323

38. WCA, 1049/5/21/120, 122, 481, 22/130: A, 18 Sept 1885, p. 177: MBW

Mins, 8 Jan 1885, p. 52, 23 Jan 1885, pp. 133, 147, 19 March 1886, p. 593: LMA,

MBW/BA/36582

39. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrupp_%26_Maberly (2017)

40. The Times, 26 March 1914: LCC Mins, 17 March 1914, p. 695: Honeycombe,

p. 148

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41. LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/23776: The Times, 19, 20 & 21 Oct 1938

42. POD

43. WCA, 1049/5/18/224 5, 290–3, 364, 455, 467: B, 3 Feb 1883, p. 140

44. WCA, 1049/5/18/289, 298, 373, 19/29, 20/498, 21/241, 22/259, 23/166,

24/239: DSR

45. WCA, 1049/5/31/269–70, 33/533–6, 35/243–6: HEA, BL20305

46. WCA, 1049/5/18/477–8, 19/13–14, 110, 114, 276, 316

47. RIBA Nomination Papers, 1877, J. T. Wimperis: Survey of London, vol. 42,

1986, p. 172

48. POD

49. J. W. Mackail, The Life of William Morris, 1899, pp. 322–3

Chapter 22


1. Grosvenor Archives, Grosvenor Building Agreements 92

2. www.mortlock.info/encyclopedia/China.rtf (2017): POD: Morning Herald,

19 May 1785: WCA, TIL/951

3. WCA, 1049/18, 1049/10/234a/1 (survey plan of 251–255 Oxford Street,

c.1811): Colvin

4. Roscoe, p. 88: POD

5. LMA, MBO 73/337

6. WCA, 1049/5/15/284–5

7. WCA, 1049/5/23/87–9: B, 22 May 1886, p. 767, 10 Dec 1887, p. 804: The Car,

3 June 1908: Kathryn A. Morrison & John Minnis, Carscapes, 2012, p. 51

8. WCA, 1049/5/21/469: B, 28 March 1885, p. 470

9. WCA, 1049/5/22/321–3: B, 18 July 1885, p. 110

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10. WCA, 1049/5/23/117–8: B, 14 May 1887, p. 737: Illustrated London 1893, p.

99

11. WCA, 1049/5/21/161, 163: LMA, B/TRL/015: B, 15 Nov 1884, p. 673:

POD: The Car, 9 Oct 1912

12. WCA, 1049/5/21/235–6, 325: LMA, B/TRL/015: B, 15 Nov 1884, p. 673:

WCA, C138, cutting of 1959

13. WCA, 1049/5/28/189, 395–6: Sydney Perks, Residential Flats, 1905, pp.

131–2: W. Shaw Sparrow, Flats, Urban Houses and Cottage Homes, 1906, p. 56:

POD: ridingaside.blogspot.co.uk (2016)

14. WCA, C138: WDP 2/1005/4: ILN, 26 Sept 1964, p. 449: BA 104360, BR

125958: GLC/AR/22/ES/002298 (the three last are 1980 references to files

now missing)

15. Estates Gazette, 11 Feb 2006: B, 15 Sept 2006, p. 9: AJ, 21 March 2014, pp. 40–

6: www.hamiltonsarchitects.com/projects/mixed/park-house:

http://rpplondon.com/projects/park-house-oxford-street-london:

http://en.focchi.it/progetti/77-park-house (2017)

16. Grosvenor Archives, Grosvenor Building Agreements 92

17. MDR 1774/6/48, 106, 188, 400; 1774/7/223, 405; 1778/1/384–5: RB

18. WCA, 1049/5/8/3, 11/262; 429/144: RB

19. Census: WCA, 1049/5/15/257, 22/28, 24/260, 268, 334

20. WCA, 1049/5/15/108, 171–2, 198, 202, 257, 285, 371, 465

21. Ibid., 1049/5/16/39–40, 15–6, 247–8, 379–80, 399, 401–4, 417–8, 421

22. Ibid., 1049/5/31/3, 32/151, 41/446, 42/116: Grosvenor Archives (Eaton

Hall), Trustees’ accounts, 1921–7

23. Grosvenor Archives (Eaton Hall), Duke’s instruction book, 1926–8, 1/277,

2/297, 322, 338–9, 403, 503, 527, 530: WCA, 1049/8/696

24. Grosvenor Archives (Eaton Hall), Duke’s instruction book, 1926–8, 2/527:

ABN, 14 Sept 1928, p. 345, 2 Nov 1928, p. 576, 19 Sept 1930, pp. 399–401, 21

Nov 1930, pp. 683–6: AR, April 1931, pp. 122–4

25. The Times, 6 Aug 1930

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26. Ibid., 8 May 1931

27. Grosvenor Archives (Eaton Hall), Duke’s instruction book, 1931–2, pp.

336, 347: ABN, 21 Nov 1930, p. 684

28. Grosvenor Archives (Eaton Hall), Duke’s instruction book, 1933–4, pp. 30,

98, 102, 134; Trustees’ accounts, 29 April 1933: The Times, 11 & 12 May 1933, 8

Sept 1933, 31 Dec 1934

29. WDP 2/1007/3–4, 8–12

30. The Times, 10 Feb 2001: www.artangel.org.uk/project/break-down (2017)

31. WCA, 1049/5/33/181–2, 527–8, 35/191–2, 37/416, 424, 39/182–200,

40/162–200, 41/499–506: Grosvenor Archives (Eaton Hall), Duke’s instruction

books, 1905–8, pp. 67–8; 1909–11, pp. 35, 45

32. WDP 2/1007/7: BN, 23 May 1913, p. 708: AJ, 7 Jan 1925, p. 47: Allen Eyles

with Keith Skone, London's West End Cinemas, 2014 edn, p. 60:

www.cinematreasures.org (2017): LMA, GLC/AR/BR/17/034408/01, 02

33. B, 30 May 1986, p. 12: WP

Appendix

1. Daily Advertiser, 1 Sept 1774

2. Evening Post, 12–14 May 1713

3. Daily Advertiser, 23 Jan 1775

4. TNA, PROB11/1787/20: WCA, 789/1011

5. Daily Courant, 25 April 1724

6. Weekly Journal, 18 July 1719

7. The Tatler, 7–9 Sept 1710

8. WCA, D Misc 14

9. Daily Journal, 28 Jan 1724

10. WDP 2/1001/8

11. Weekly Journal, 3 Nov 1722

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12. TNA, PROB10/7425/4

13. The Post Boy, 25–27 Aug 1719

14. Weekly Journal, 6 Sept 1723

15. The Post Man, 29–31 Aug 1700

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