St James's - 'dwellings of Noble men and other Persons of quality’

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My number is 07815009191.

MEET: 10.45 for tea Pret a Manger 81 Piccadilly, W1J 8HY. Almost next to Green Park station.

Or 11.15 by the fountain just outside Green Park exit from Green Park tube station.

Henry Jermyn, favourite of queen Henrietta Maria won the right to build the fine dwellings mentioned above on the pelli melli court (Pall Mall) and for this he is known as the father of the West End. It becomes the first shopping mall in the world and we'll visit some of those shops still with us on this walk.

Find out why the Berry Bros' weighing scales are so important, why gentlemen's clubs became an essential and why the duke of Wellington was excluded from his.

We'll see the grandest of London homes of the aristocracy, John Nash's summer house find out why the duke of York is on such a high pillar and why his troops went up and down the hill.

Please pay £12 to my account sort code 090128 account number 75471878 or cash on the day.

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