. Walks in London . r, and passes under Belgravia to the Street has its name from a bridge over the WestBourne. At the crossways, where the Brompton Road turns off tothe left, is TattersaWs^ the most celebrated auction mart forhorses in existence, and the headquarters of horse-racing,established in 1774 by Richard Tattersall, stud-groom tothe last Duke of Kingston. Sales take place everyMonday throughout the year, and every Thursday duringthe season. The business of the firm is confined tpthe selling of horses; they have nothing to do with thebetting. 452 WALKS IN LONDON. Following
. Walks in London . r, and passes under Belgravia to the Street has its name from a bridge over the WestBourne. At the crossways, where the Brompton Road turns off tothe left, is TattersaWs^ the most celebrated auction mart forhorses in existence, and the headquarters of horse-racing,established in 1774 by Richard Tattersall, stud-groom tothe last Duke of Kingston. Sales take place everyMonday throughout the year, and every Thursday duringthe season. The business of the firm is confined tpthe selling of horses; they have nothing to do with thebetting. 452 WALKS IN LONDON. Following the Knightsbridge Road on the left are severalof the handsomest houses in London—Kefit House (Louisa,Lady Ashburton), on the site of a house once inhabited bythe Duke of Kent; Strathedeii House, where Lord Camp-bell wrote his Lives of the Lord Chancellors; and AlfordHouse (Lady Marian Alford), an admirable building of brick,with high roofs, and terra-cotta ornaments. Beyond this are Rutland Gate and Princes Alford House. No. 49 Princes Gate, the house of Mr. , contairsthe Peacock Room, decorated by Mr. Whistler in walls and ceiling are entirely covered with peacockiridescence, while the separate peacocks on the shuttersare full of nature and beauty, and still more those indefiance over the sideboard, which express a tall brick chimneys and gables on the left belong to THE ALBERT HALL. 453 the highly picturesque Lowther Lodge (Hon. W. Lowther),an admirable work of Norman Shaw. All along this road London has been moving out of townfor the last twenty years, but has never succeeded in gettinginto the country. At Kensington Gore^ where Wilberforce resided from1808 to 1821, and held his anti-slavery meetings, andwhere Lady Blessington lived afterwards, the centre of a
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