Bond Street is a major shopping street in London which runs through Mayfair from Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Mayfair is an area of central London, England, within the City of Westminster. Piccadilly is a major London street running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. It is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is more upmarket than nearby Regent Street and Oxford Street. Regent Street is one of the major shopping streets in London 's West End. Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. It is in the Mayfair district of London, and has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century. Mayfair is an area of central London, England, within the City of Westminster. Technically "Bond Street" does not exist: The southern section is known as Old Bond Street, and the northern section, which is rather more than half the total length, is known as New Bond Street. This distinction, however, is not generally made in everyday usage.
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History
Bond Street takes its name from Sir Thomas Bond, the head of a syndicate of developers who purchased a Piccadilly mansion called Clarendon House from Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle in 1683 and proceeded to demolish the house and develop the area. Clarendon House was a town mansion which stood on Piccadilly in London, England from the 1660s to the 1680s Christopher Monck 2nd Duke of Albemarle, KG PC ( 14 August 1653 &ndash 6 October 1688) was an English statesman They also built nearby Dover Street and Albemarle Street. Dover Street is a street in Mayfair, London, England. The street is notable for its Georgian architecture as well as the location of Albemarle Street is a street in Mayfair in central London, off Piccadilly. At that time the house backed onto open fields and the development of the various estates in Mayfair was just getting underway. It moved predominantly from south to north, which accounts for the southern part of the street being "Old" Bond Street, and the Northern half being "New" Bond Street, the latter being added in a second phase as London continued to grow. John Rocque's map of London published in 1746 shows the whole length of Bond Street and all its side streets fully built up. John Rocque (originally Jean born not later than 1709 died 1762 was a surveyor and Cartographer. Year 1746 ( MDCCXLVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
Current streetscape
At one time Bond Street was best known for top end art dealers and antique shops, clustered around the London office of Sotheby's auction house, which has been in Bond Street for over a hundred years, and of the Fine Art Society, present on the street since its foundation in 1876. Sotheby's ( is the world's second oldest Auction house in continuous operation (the oldest being Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674 The Fine Art Society is an art dealership with two premises one in New Bond Street, London (held since 1876 given a new entrance in 1881 by Edward William Godwin A few of these remain, but most of the shops are now occupied by fashion boutiques, including branches of most of the leading premium priced designer brands in the world. There are also a few miscellaneous upmarket shops such as jewellers. The street features "Allies", an unusual statue by Lawrence Holofcener of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who are portrayed sitting on a park bench in conversation. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874
In recent years Sloane Street, which is a mile or so away in Knightsbridge, the other main shopping district in central London, has become a rival to Bond Street, with duplicate branches of many of the top boutiques. Sloane Street is a street in London which runs north to south from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square, crossing Pont Street about half way along Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of Central London.
Bond Street is mentioned in a number of works of literature, including Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility and Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. Jane Austen (16 Sense and Sensibility is a Novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May, 1925) is a Novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in It is also a square on the British Monopoly board, the same colour as Regent and Oxford Streets, and subsequently is the most expensive of the three
Street gallery
 Old Bond Street becomes New |
 FDR and Churchill Statue |
References
- London's Mansions by David Pearce (1986). Monopoly is a Board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. ISBN 0-7134-8702-X. (Development details. )
See also
External links
"Bond Street" was also a 1948 British film
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