Twentieth century palace; the Piccadilly Hotel; with some notes on the history, landmarks & worthies of Piccadilly & Regent street . -ordinary man, whose life-story enters so largely into theannals of Piccadilly. It is difficult to resist quoting LeighHunts graphic picture of the fourth Duke of Queensberry Sunning himself m Huncamunca s eyesand wondering at the longevity of his dissipation andthe prosperity of his worthlessness, or referring to thepopular song of 1810, with the verse:— 26 The Piccaiiilly Hotel. The King, God bless Kim !Gave a wnew, the Diilce s ]ust dead !A Third gone too ! Wh
Twentieth century palace; the Piccadilly Hotel; with some notes on the history, landmarks & worthies of Piccadilly & Regent street . -ordinary man, whose life-story enters so largely into theannals of Piccadilly. It is difficult to resist quoting LeighHunts graphic picture of the fourth Duke of Queensberry Sunning himself m Huncamunca s eyesand wondering at the longevity of his dissipation andthe prosperity of his worthlessness, or referring to thepopular song of 1810, with the verse:— 26 The Piccaiiilly Hotel. The King, God bless Kim !Gave a wnew, the Diilce s ]ust dead !A Third gone too ! What! What! could nothing save Old Q?The star of Piccadilly- Except as regards nis place oi interment Old Q, likeLord Byron, Sir Francis Burdett ana the Duke ofWellington, belongs pre-eminently to Piccadilly West ;and it is now time to return to Piccadilly East, andthe past history of the site between Air Street andPiccadilly Passage, now occupied by its TwentiethCentury Palace. It is a curious coincidence that the hostelry invarious forms has from the very beginning enteredlargely into the history of Piccadilly, as one of the. Hogartbs View of tlie oM entrance Burlington House and Piccadilly East. A Twentieth Century Palace. 27 great centres of London pleasure-making. Of the veryoldest of these houses of entertainment at the north-eastcorner of the Haymarket, we should know very littleif it were not for the song beginning :— Farewell, my dearest Piccadilly,Notorious for great dinners ;Oh, what a Tennis Court was there !Alas ! too good for sinners- Auhrey also tells us a story of Sir John Suckling,the poets sisters coming to Peccadillo Bowling Greencrying for fear he should lose all their portions.
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