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Survey of London
… nearby at No. 49 Brook Street (now part of the site of Claridge's Hotel), and in both cases Lord Grosvenor actually … to take No. 51 Brook Street (also now part of the site of Claridge's Hotel), which had been empty for over a year, was … It is to these establishments of Wake's and Mivart's that Claridge's Hotel traces its origin. By about 1835, when all …
A History of the County of Essex
… landowner was John Fowke (d. 1691) of Claybury. 35 Richard Claridge, a Friend whose refusal to pay church rates, and … iii. 153; and see p. 194. J. Besse, The Life of Richard Claridge, 14059. E.R.O., D/AEM 9. Bedford Inst. Assoc. Rep. …
Survey of London
… The other great survivor from this palmy period is Claridge's. This splendid and always exclusive hotel had long … streets, this had to be an exception. The classes for whom Claridge's catered were precisely those whose good opinion … at Bourdon House; he also carried out some decorations at Claridge's under the French architect Ren Sergent (1910), and …
Survey of London
… house agents, to that of early hotels like Mivart's (later Claridge's) in Brook Street, by which an entrepreneur took on …
Survey of London
… been as ambitious. But (with the significant exception of Claridge's) they had been humanized by frequent subdivision, … lower but similar key were the various extensions to Claridge's Hotel. In 1926 Basil Ionides, a pioneer in several … the last ten years', at least in the shape that it took at Claridge's, duly denuded of too much French Cubism or German …
Survey of London
… on the south side of Brook Street now occupied by part of Claridge's Hotel. In 1723 he was granted a lease of the house …
Survey of London
… (the joint plot, later numbered 55, being on the site of Claridge's Hotel). 71 At the time of his death in 1791 he …
Survey of London
… for six months of the year they could 'get a flat at Claridge's for 3 10s a day', which was not more than the cost … the Connaught Hotel, Mayfair House (both in Carlos Place), Claridge's (Brook Street), Fountain House (Park Lane), Nos. …
Survey of London
… occupied by two private hotels, Lillyman's at No. 43 and Claridge's at Nos. 4955 (odd). Both these establishments had … the entrance fee in the hands of the hall porter.' 35 At Claridge's, on the night of the census in 1871, the …
Survey of London
… change from the old-fashioned comforts provided by William Claridge and Auguste Scorrier in adapted private dwellings to the discreetly spacious splendours newly built by Claridge's Hotel Company Limited and the Coburg Hotel Company …
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