Chapter I: Front Matter

Wanderings in Piccadilly
Mayfair and
Pall Mall

Wanderings in London

Piccadilly, Mayfair
and Pall Mall

BY
E. BERESFORD CHANCELLOR, M.A.
F.R. Hist: Soc:
Author of
“THE SQUARES OF LONDON,” ETC.

WITH
TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS OF OLD LONDON
(Four of them in Colour)

JAMES POTT & CO.
NEW YORK

1909

WANDERINGS IN LONDON
PICCADILLY, MAYFAIR
AND PALL MALL

To facilitate the “Wanderings”
of inexperienced pilgrims, more
especially of those from America, a

MAP OF THE DISTRICT

will be found within the two covers
of the book; that in the front giving
the more eastern, and that in the
back the more western limits of the
district concerned.

WARD & CO.
COLOUR PRINTERS
33 & 34 Craven Street
CHARING CROSS
LONDON, W.C.

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

Old London vanishes, another London takes its place; the interesting old spots associated with the leisurely life and refinement of the century that has gone, are being swept away one by one. In many ways we would welcome a return of those dear old days, with their appreciation of the _belles lettres_ and the fine arts, and with all their oddities and quaint customs, but they have gone for ever. They played their part in the development of the national life: to us they are but memories.

We owe no small debt of gratitude, however, to those who--like the author--amidst all the changes that are taking place, have tried to keep alive for us with pen and pencil, a remembrance of a period so different from our own. Especially, perhaps, will many of our American cousins recognise this debt when in their migrations they try to hunt up places of interest connected with their English forbears.

Mr. Chancellor is most happy as he takes us round the old streets and houses, and gives--as it were--almost personal introductions to the quaint and interesting people who inhabited them. His pages are sentient with living personages, and as we read we forget the years that have rolled away, while we enjoy the laugh and quip with the interesting old characters which are met with at every turn and corner.

To begin one’s peregrinations at the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly seems at first sight a little arbitrary, but one soon realises that in starting from “Stewart’s,” and keeping within a half-mile radius of this centre, one is really covering by far the most interesting portion of the West End; while the old shop, which--during more than two centuries--has given its name to this corner of Bond Street, and which, as Mr. Chancellor declares, is to Americans one of the best known spots in Europe, is in itself a most interesting link with the past and present.

The Author, and the Publishers, acknowledge with thanks their indebtedness to Edward Gardner, Esq., for kind permission to reproduce six views of Old London from his unique Collection of Drawings and Prints.

Contents.

CHAPTER I.--PICCADILLY. PAGE

Stewart’s Corner--Albemarle Street--Dover Street--The
White Horse Cellar--Hatchett’s Restaurant--Berkeley
Street--Devonshire House--Stratton
Street--Bolton Street--Bath House--The Clubs of
Piccadilly--Clarges Street--Half Moon Street--Cambridge
House--Ritz Hotel--Down Street--Gloucester
House--“Old Q.” 1 to 28

CHAPTER II.--ST. JAMES’S STREET & PALL MALL.

The Green Park--Constitution Hill--Cleveland
Row--St. James’s Palace--Arlington Street--St.
James’s Street--The Clubs of St. James’s Street--Chocolate
Houses--King Street--Pall Mall--Pall
Mall Clubs--Pall Mall Taverns--Carlton House 29 to 56

CHAPTER III.--THE HAYMARKET, ST. JAMES’S
SQUARE AND PICCADILLY (EAST).

The Haymarket--The Haymarket Theatre--Suffolk
Street--The Opera House--His Majesty’s Theatre--St.
James’s Square--Jermyn Street--St. James’s
Church--Piccadilly Circus--Pickadilla Hall--Piccadilly
East--Quaritch’s--The Albany--Burlington
House, Burlington Arcade 57 to 83

CHAPTER IV.--BOND STREET.

Bond Street--Famous Residents--Prince of Wales’s
Coffee House--Burlington Street--Burlington
Gardens--Vigo Street--Clifford Street--Savile Row--Cork
Street--Conduit Street--Maddox Street--George
Street--Hanover Square--St. George’s
Church--Brook Street--Grosvenor Street--Bruton
Street--Grafton Street--Hay Hill--Berkeley
Square 84 to 114