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UNLOCK THE HISTORY OF YOUR HOUSE
ORANGE SQUARE
If walls could speak, what stories would they tell? It’s a proposition
that more and more of us are entranced by. Researching the history
of a house can be fascinating. But it is not likely to be
straightforward, especially in London, where the maze of sources is
exceptionally complex.
was once an area of open country and market gardens, Orange
Square is now one of Victoria’s prime shopping districts. Located at
the junction of Pimlico Road and Ebury Street, the square’s name
is thought to have derived from a tavern called the Prince of
Orange, after the ruling house of the Netherlands (and, for a while,
England).
Research on a house in Chesham Place Belgravia revealed that it
was the London house of Lady Conyngham in 1859. She was
George IV's last mistress from about 1820 until his death ten years
later. In her youth she had been a great beauty, but by the time she
was the King's
mistress she
was fifty-one
and rather fat.
Caricaturists
and wits found
the idea of the
fat ageing King
and his large
ageing mistress
hilarious and
the King's
behaviour in
public fed their
humour. He
became besotted with her and
even during his
Coronation he
was seen continually 'nodding
and winking at
her'.
Indeed, the district was popular as one of London’s main pleasure
haunts. As well as several drinking establishments, it had coffee
houses, tea gardens and the famous Chelsea Bun House, located
on the opposite side of Pimlico Road and, home to the eponymous
pastry. The Bun House was popular with King George II and
George III, along with much of London society, but was demolished
in 1839.
One 18th-century recreational venue that survives is The Orange
Public House & Hotel (37 Pimlico
Road). The earliest reference to the
building is found in the Grovesnor
Estate archives, where there is a
record of lease from 1776 of the
recently built Orange Coffee House
and Tavern. In 1829, the coffee
house took over the gardens of
Strumbelo House, and in 1830s the
Royal Orange Theatre was
established. From 1983 to 2001, it
was a microbrewery, and now it’s a
light and airy restaurant pub run by
the team behind the Thomas Cubitt
on Elizabeth Street. Nearby, nestled among the many interiors
shops on the square is the
institution that is the Poule au Pot,
one of London’s best French
bistros since 1962.
Lady Conyngham had no political ambition and used her power only
to further the personal and financial ambitions of herself and her family. The Conynghams’ supreme influence at Court came to a rapid
conclusion at the death of George IV in the early hours of 26th June
1830. Lady Conyngham spent the remainder of the night packing,
and by the following morning had left Windsor for Paris. Society
believed that she was accompanied by ‘wagonloads’ of plunder, but
although the King had bequeathed her all his plate and jewels she
refused the entire legacy.
Another reason for the district’s
popularity in the 18th and 19th
centuries was Ranelagh Gardens, a
fashionable place for socialising
and ‘courting’, as well as concerts in its rococo rotunda, from the
moment it opened in 1742. The gardens are now part of the
Chelsea Hospital grounds and the site of the annual Chelsea
Flower Show.
By the time she lived at the house in Chesham Place she was ninety.
She died aged ninety-two, having outlived her husband by thirty
years and all but one of her children.
Thanks to Westminster City Council and a financial contribution
from the Grosvenor Estate, Orange Square underwent improvements in the Nineties. The pleasant park space is home to a
farmers’ market on Saturdays and provides a suitable setting for
the statue of the young Mozart, paid for by public subscription and
unveiled in September 1994 by Princess Margaret.
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WESTMINSTER FOODBANK
THE GREEN PLAQUES SCHEME
is based at Westminster Chapel and provides three days’-worth of
nutritionally balanced (non-perishable) food to residents in the
Borough of Westminster experiencing financial crisis, through a
voucher scheme. It is part of a nationwide network of Foodbanks
overseen and supported by the Trussell Trust (through training and
resources).
Westminster City Council launched a commemorative Green
Plaques Scheme in 1991. By means of a green plaque, the
scheme seeks to draw attention to some of the many famous
former residents of Westminster.
Sometimes a building may be commemorated for its own significance and plaques may occasionally be placed on the site of a
building which no longer exists.
How does it work?
Volunteers sort and pack the donated food into food bags at the
church. Foodbanks partner with front-line care professionals, who
identify people in crisis and give them a voucher. On taking their
voucher to the Foodbank centre, people receive a warm welcome, a
hot drink and their food bag. If appropriate, they will also be put in
touch with agencies that may be able to provide further assistance.
There are green plaques on over 55 sites in Westminster; erected
to remember important people from many walks of life and from
different times, from the Tyburn Catholic Martyrs (1535-1631),
whose green plaque is at 8 Hyde Park Place, to Terence Donovan,
photographer (1936-1996), whose green plaque is at 30 Bourdon
Street. The council’s Green Plaques
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those who have been commemorated by a green
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Everyone coming to the Foodbank must present a food voucher in
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Both organisations are able to issue food vouchers to those in need.
The Fitzrovia
Neighbourhood
Association first
approached the council
for a commemorative
plaque for Olaudah Equiano
in December 1998. Equiano had
been included on a wall mural in
Fitzrovia and there was already a lot of local knowledge about his
significance to the area’s social history. By the following summer
the Association had secured sponsorship as well as the support of
the Equiano Society, based in Orpington, Kent. The plaque was
unveiled on 11th October 2000 to coincide with Black History
Month in October.
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Westminster Chapel is able to accept food donations Monday to
Friday 9.00 am to 5.00 pm or on Sundays before their morning
service. If you plan to deliver donations during the working week,
please call on 020 7834 1731 (x 243). You can drop off donations
between 10.00 am and 11am on a Sunday.
A supermarket trolley is there to help.
Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman.
She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding
the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s.
The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English
designs — often with a 19th-century rural feel — and the use of
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While working as a secretary and raising her first two children,
Ashley undertook some development work for the Women's
Institute on quilting. Revisiting the craft she had learnt with her
grandmother, she began designing headscarves, napkins, table
mats and tea-towels which Bernard printed on a machine he had
designed in their attic flat at 83 Cambridge Street, Pimlico.
In 1975, Laura Ashley turned down the offer of an OBE and
Bernard Ashley was knighted only after her death.
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TACHBROOK
BESSBOROUGH GARDENS PIMLICO
In the early 1930s the Westminster Housing Trust (WHT) was set up
to build affordable rented flats. The local council helped by
providing the site at below market value. Fundraising schemes were
started to meet building costs and several members of the Royal
family donated money. Famous authors, including H G Wells and A A
Milne, also gave signed books and manuscripts to be sold at a
charity auction to help raise funds. Queen Mary
contributed pieces of lace, a Chinese box, a set of decanters
and a miniature dinner service.
was once open fields in the vicinity of the Millbank Penitentiary. It
was laid out as a garden for the surrounding terraces between
1841-43, a wedge-shaped enclosure with Holy Trinity Church to
the south, now demolished. In 1982 the terraces were demolished
for road improvements, replaced by new buildings in C19th style.
Bessborough Gardens and surrounding areas was named in
honour of John Ponsonby, Barron Duncannon of
Bessborough. As First Commissioner of
Woods and Forests, Ponsonby was required
to take an active part in the improvements
and developments going on in London.
The first seven blocks were
..opened by the Duke of Kent
..(the present Duke's father) in
..1935. They were the first
..working class flats in London
..to have "self-operated
..electric lifts." Two years later
..the Duke's wife opened the
..social centre.
New gardens were laid out within an
irregular rectangle surrounded
with modern railings, and contain several mature trees, a
lawn crossed by stone and
brick paths, seating areas and
shrubberies. In the centre is
the Queen Mother's
Commemorative Fountain,
which incorporates a cast of
one of George Vulliamy's dolphin lamp standard bases from the
Embankment.
..The Second World War
..delayed plans to build more
..blocks, but in 1949 Queen
Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, opened Malcolmson House.
Princess Margaret visited the estate in 1953 to mark the completion
of building work, which included a nursery school.
Pimlico Gardens were developed by the Crown Estate working with
George Wimpey and with Peter Shepheard (as the landscape
architect) on the garden square. The houses were built in the manner of Thomas Cubitt. The gardens adjoin the housing on the west
and north sides of the square, instead of being separated by a
road, as Cubitt would have done. This was possible because the
car parking was placed underground.
In 1972 WHT transferred Tachbrook to Peabody. Some tenants still
remember Miss Wright, who was secretary to WHT for many years.
After her death the Trust received her collection of photos of
Tachbrook. These include pictures of construction work, the builders,
Royal visits, and the parties held by tenants to celebrate King George
V's Silver Jubilee and the present Queen's Coronation.
PEABODY IN PIMLICO
Sir Peter Shepheard also designed the Queen Mother's
Commemorative Fountain.
Though cast in aluminim, it
uses the motif of a dolphin,
borrowed from George
Vulliamy's dolphin lights.
Architectural critics sneered at
the 'pastiche' approach to
architecture and gardens.
Residents love it. The
gardens are maintained by
Westminster City Council and
are open to the public.
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is one of their oldest estates.
The first 26 blocks date from
1876. In 1881 around 2,000
people lived there, many of
them working in the nearby
Chelsea Barracks. There
were also lamplighters,
messengers, charwomen,
policemen and plumbers
Pimlico is one of four estates
to have a plaque
commemorating those who
died on active service in the
World War 1. During WW2,
the estate received a visit
from Winston Churchill.
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HENRY GRAY
FERDINAND FOCH
was born in Belgravia, in 1827 and lived most of his life in London.
In 1845, he entered as a student at St. George’s Hospital, (then situated in Belgravia ), and he is described by those who knew him
as a most painstaking and methodical worker, and one who
learned his anatomy by the slow but invaluable method of making
dissections for himself.
was born on 2 October 1851 in Tarbes, the son of a civil servant.
He resolved to become a soldier early in life, joining the army in
1871 where he served in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71.
Having enrolled at the French army college, Ecole de Guerre, Foch
proved so impressive that he was asked to remain as a teacher.
His lectures there were published as The Principles of War and De
la Conduite de la Guerre. Foch further served at the Ecole de
Guerre from 1907-1911 as director.
While still a student, Gray secured the triennial prize of Royal
College of Surgeons in 1848 for an essay entitled The Origin,
Connexions and Distribution of nerves to the human eye and its
appendages, illustrated by comparative dissections of the eye in
other vertebrate animals. In 1852, at the early age of 25, he was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the following year he
obtained the Astley Cooper prize of three hundred guineas for a
dissertation “On the structure
and Use of Spleen”.
With the onset of war Foch was given command of the Ninth Army
In 1858, Gray published the first edition of Anatomy. He
had the good
fortune of securing
the help of his
friend Henry
Vandyke Carter, a
skilled draughtsman
and formerly a
demonstrator of anatomy at St.
George’s Hospital. Carter made the drawings from which the
engravings were executed, and the success of the book was, in
the first instance, undoubtedly due in no small measure to the
excellence of its illustrations. This edition was dedicated to Sir
Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart, FRS, DCL. A second edition was
prepared by Gray and published in 1860. The book is still
published under the title Gray's Anatomy and is widely appreciated
as an extraordinary and authoritative
textbook for medical
students.
during the Battle of the Marne following crucial early successes in
Nancy; at the Marne he led the French counter-attack. He was
subsequently promoted and given command of the Northern Army
on the Western Front in October 1914. In this position he saw
service during the Somme offensive in 1916 (and for which he was
sacrificed as a French scapegoat, banished for a while to the
Italian front).
With the arrival of the hero of Verdun, General Philippe Petain,
replacing Robert Nivelle, Foch was recalled from relative obscurity
and made Chief of the General Staff in 1918.
Gray held
successively the posts of demonstrator of Anatomy, curator of the
museum, and Lecturer of Anatomy at St. George’s Hospital, and
was in 1861 a candidate for the post of assistant surgeon.
Following intense persuasion and negotiation from Georges
Clemenceau, the French prime minister, Foch was given overall
control of the Allied forces in March 1918, serving as Allied
Supreme Commander, in which role he frequently conflicted with
Pershing over the disposition of U.S. forces.
Gray was struck by an attack of confluent smallpox, which he
contracted while looking after a nephew, whom he loved very
much, and who was suffering from that disease. He died in London
on June 13, 1861 at the age of 34 and was buried at Highgate
Cemetery. The nephew survived.
Foch stopped the advance of the German forces during the great
push of Spring 1918 at the Second Battle of Marne in July 1918,
mounting the counter-attack that turned the tide of the war. Foch
accepted the German surrender in November 1918. Earlier this
year, in July, Foch was made Marshal of France.
The plaque above is on Wilton Street, Belgravia.
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After the war Foch played a major advisory role at the Paris Peace
Conference. He died in Paris on 20th March 1929.
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part of which has disappeared since the year 1845 in the
formation of Victoria Street, derive their names from the wellknown
Sir Robert Pye, who resided in the New Way close by. He was by
marriage a cousin of Oliver Cromwell.
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their families, were given every fortnight. A religious service (quite
unsectarian) was also held for one hour on Sunday evenings. A
penny bank was opened three nights a week, and in six months
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members who were costermongers with barrows. The cost of a
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The society continued to grow, so new locations were added. In 1890
stores were opened in Plymouth, and Mumbai, India, while in 1891 a
further store was opened in Karachi. This Indian adventure continued
with stores opening in Kolkata in 1900, while stores in New Dehli,
Shimla & Ranchi were opened in the 1930s.
was previous known as Army & Navy Stores with its flagship store
was located on Victoria Street. The House of Fraser acquired the
group in 1976. The Victoria Street department store traded under
the Army & Navy name, until 2005, when it was renamed House of
Fraser Victoria. Each of the four selling-floors holds a broad range
of merchandise including clothing, accessories and cosmetics, furnishing, household and electrical goods. 'World of Food', a new
food hall concept in House of Fraser stores (introduced at
Birmingham in 2003), was opened on the Ground Floor to coincide
with the store's relaunch under the 'House of Fraser' name.
The society still continued to expand in London, erecting a new preserved provisions factory in Coburg Road, and purchasing more
property along Victoria Street. The society offered an enormous
illustrated price list which could be ordered by phone.
However, the advent of the First World War saw trade suffer badily,
but this was
supplanted in
part by a
contract from
the War Office.
After the war,
the society
was hit by
strikes by its
staff, but it
continued to
develop its
Victoria Street
site and by
1922 a new
frontage had
been added.
House of Fraser was acquired by Icelandic investment company,
Baugur Group, in late 2006.
The Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd was incoporated on the
15 September 1871, being formed a group of army and navy
officers. The aim of the co-operative was to supply goods to its
members at the lowest remunerative rates, and was based on two
earlier models - the Civil Service Supply
Association & the Civil Service Co-operative Society. The society leased part of a
distillery premises in Victoria Street,
which was owned by Vickers & Co, and
by February 1872 the store was opened
for the sale of groceries. By 1873, the
store offered stationery, a drapery, fancy
goods, tailoring, groceries, a chemist and
even a gun department! The store was
too small for the business so they rented
a house next to their warehouse and
acquired a further warehouse in in
Johnson Place.
In 1934 the
society was
incoporated
into a limited
company Army & Navy Stores Ltd. The Army and Navy Stores Limited 'General
Price list 1935-36' listed showrooms and offices at 105 Victoria
Street, Francis Street and Howick Place, SW1. There was also a furniture depository and strong room at Turnham Green and an auction
room at Greencoat Place SW1.
By 1876, the business had outgrown its
premises. They leased more of the distillery from Vickers, closed
their warehouse in Johnson Place moving to a new location at
Ranelagh Road in Pimlico. The business was now offering a
banking department to its members, and had negotiated an option
on the Victoria Road site as part of the lease deal at Victoria
Street. This option was taken up in 1878, and they purchased their
Victoria Road store, adding a refreshments room for its growing
customer base.
In 1973, work was started on replacing the old Victoria Street site.
The building was designed by London architects Elsom Pack &
Roberts, and completed in 1977.
The business grew, and in 1881 the society purchased the
remaining site of the distillery and by 1882 had opened the whole
site. In addition its warehouseing was mooved to Tooley Street in
Westminister, with the Pimilico site now operating as a
manufacturing centre for tailoring and printing, which it had started
in 1877. In 1884 new workshop space was purchased in Johnson
Street, and office space in Howick Place were converted into retail
space. By this time the business had added furniture sales and an
estate agents to its business.
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its portfolio. Army & Navy Stores Ltd stayed as a separate division of
House of Fraser until 1981, when the business was returned into the
House of Fraser Group.
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