Berkley Sq, London W1
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A Poole Collection image from London no less with a fine building on "Berkley" Square in London.
With thanks to today's contributors we have confirmation that this is Lansdowne House off Berkeley Square. Home to several Prime Ministers, the house was demolished in sections through the early 20th century, with this capture likely before works in the mid-1920s. What remains today is used by the Lansdowne Club...
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: catalogue date ca.1901-1954, but likely pre-1925
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0903
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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With thanks to today's contributors we have confirmation that this is Lansdowne House off Berkeley Square. Home to several Prime Ministers, the house was demolished in sections through the early 20th century, with this capture likely before works in the mid-1920s. What remains today is used by the Lansdowne Club...
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: catalogue date ca.1901-1954, but likely pre-1925
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0903
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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Niall McAuley
Lansdowne House, I believe. Per that wikipedia article, this is before 1931 when the house was partly demolished and the facade moved. The facade in Streetview in its new position.
sharon.corbet
From the history on the Lansdowne Club's website, it's probably before 1925, as that's when the gardens and carriage way were taken to build shops.
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Is that a nightingale perched in the tree, singing its heart out ?
nasse~strasse
how pleasing to my eyes is this.
Swordscookie
Quite the history attached to this! Interesting the relationship between Lansdowne and Shelburne! We in Dublin know those names only too well! An extract from that Wikipedia article "Designed by Robert Adam as a private house for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute but in 1763 he sold it unfinished to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (both men became Prime Minister). Shelburne retained Adam until 1771, when his wife died, with parts of the decoration still incomplete. George Dance the Younger and Robert Smirke later worked on the house. From 1763 to 1929 it belonged to the Petty-FitzMaurice family, Marquesses of Lansdowne. In 1931 part of the original house was demolished to allow a new road to be built. Since 1935, part of it has been the home of the Lansdowne Club. The positioning of the property was rather unusual. It had a large front garden occupying the whole of the southern side of the square, which it faced side on. This arrangement gave Devonshire House on Piccadilly an open aspect behind as far as the square. Famous former owners or residents of Lansdowne House include: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, British Prime Minister (1762-63) William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne), British Prime Minister (1782-83) William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-1806) William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, Richest man in America at the time (1891-1893) Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister (1894 - 1895) Harry Gordon Selfridge, founder of the Selfridges department store"
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Thanks all. Hope all are keeping safe and well this evening.
Karin Joy Passmore
Is the building darkened by coal pollution?
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildmore2011 Yes, but some of the stains are due to those wretched nightingales who insisted on singing in Berkeley Square.