Palace, Park and Square: St James's and the Birth of the West End - Simon Thurley CBE
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Based on new research into the origins of St. James's, Simon Thurley looks into the ingredients that went into making a court quarter there and the way it formed a blueprint for the new West End of London.
This is the first of two lectures by Professor Thurley on Buildings in the West End of London.
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Excellent history and a very lucid explanation of the development of St. James district of London. As a member of the O&C Club…just a half minute‘s walk from St. James Palace…I appreciate very much how this magnificent architecture arose from London’s pastoral fields of the Tudor age 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍
Marvellous lecture!
I always wanted this in depth knowledge! Thank you
Fascinating history. The establishment of "bridgheads", whether economic, religious, or political (when one can quickly become the other) as drivers of urban development, and the consequent spread of habitation is quite q revelation. I wish there were more figure / ground mappings to plot this spread. Thus far, the roads are the most recognizable links to the present.
Great job again by Simon
Excellent !
Great Job ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉
Great presentation. Love all of the College's speakers. Thanks for posting!
Thank you
I thought Mews referred to where the royal falcons were kept (and the sounds they made - do falcons mew?). Horses no doubt were kept there too, and that's how we now know them, including the small streets of coach houses behind the grand rows. Can anyone enlighten me?
Curious that the wall is shown with stretcher bond - one brick thick?
Every conversation anyone had ever held with Queen Elizabeth became more treasured when she fell asleep in death.
So Cromwell practically stole all this area for Henry viii, and the Duke of Westminster owns the rest? Isn’t he now a young guy who is richer than the Queen? Yeah he’s a 30 year old billionaire. Go Hugh!
In the USA we don’t say St James’s. It’s just St James Palace. That ssss doesn’t fly here.
And yet you do have the redundant 'off of' 🙄
and? not everything is about the usa....
Even less is about insignificant UK. !
Royal families have stolen a lot in London it seems. Would it be time to take all these properties from the thieves.
The paying like everyone else 🙄