The Oriental club and Hanover Square . nds;and Sir Benjamin Baker, , chief engineer of thatline, as of many others of the most important enterprisesof our time, states that in sinking the shafts some old pileswere met with which probably formed part of the bridge thatspanned the Tyburn Koad. The completion of New Bond Street in 1716 afforded thefirst means of direct communication between Piccadilly andOxford Street, and very shortly after it had become an in-habited and fashionable thoroughfare new districts wereopened up on either side of the latter great highway. Thelarge property on
The Oriental club and Hanover Square . nds;and Sir Benjamin Baker, , chief engineer of thatline, as of many others of the most important enterprisesof our time, states that in sinking the shafts some old pileswere met with which probably formed part of the bridge thatspanned the Tyburn Koad. The completion of New Bond Street in 1716 afforded thefirst means of direct communication between Piccadilly andOxford Street, and very shortly after it had become an in-habited and fashionable thoroughfare new districts wereopened up on either side of the latter great highway. Thelarge property on the west of Bond Street came into thepossession of the Grosvenor family through the marriage ofSir Thomas of that name, a Baronet of Cheshire, mth MissMary Davies, heiress of an estate which extended fromOxford Street to Belgravia, and included the street namedafter her, together with Farm Street, Hay Hill, and HayMews, and many others. Grosvenor Square was commencedabout 1716, and in 1718 the builders took in hand the Vol. vi. 11 1 lMn»A ,V! ~ — —^^—. «fe ?•???? V i MP tK^4S ?rlfTTsMT^- ^.--^ ?•—=^ !f - ? ? -le-^^yH^i - -—i~w^ htf —.^...»i^«- i ,.! *
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