Characters of FitzroviaFitzrovia lies between Oxford Street and Euston Road, bordered by Portland Place, Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road. This is a portrait of a mysteriously evocative area of London, creative hub for the avant garde, as well as a meeting place for princes, prostitutes, spivs and spies. |
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... presents a Fitzrovia that is as much a space of the imagination , swirling with the past . glimpsed in the present , as it is a neighbourhood determined by those who live and work there today Fitzrovia mixes the arts and sciences , has ...
... presents a Fitzrovia that is as much a space of the imagination , swirling with the past . glimpsed in the present , as it is a neighbourhood determined by those who live and work there today Fitzrovia mixes the arts and sciences , has ...
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... present - day Berners Street , a ' large fort , with 4 half bulwarks . " The forts were linked by 18 miles of nine - foot deep , earthen ramparts , but they were never tested . The royalist troops stopped at Turnham Green , Charles I ...
... present - day Berners Street , a ' large fort , with 4 half bulwarks . " The forts were linked by 18 miles of nine - foot deep , earthen ramparts , but they were never tested . The royalist troops stopped at Turnham Green , Charles I ...
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... present south side is a pastiche , rebuilt after the blitz of the second world war . ) From 1809 to 1995 , the pub opposite Robert Adam's address in Conway Street , now part of the O'Neills Irish Bar chain , was called the Adam's Arms ...
... present south side is a pastiche , rebuilt after the blitz of the second world war . ) From 1809 to 1995 , the pub opposite Robert Adam's address in Conway Street , now part of the O'Neills Irish Bar chain , was called the Adam's Arms ...
Contents
Rabblerousers Radicals and Revolutionaries | 34 |
Murderers and Manslaughterers | 72 |
The Literary Set | 168 |
Copyright | |
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