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afford to buy a house also buys the freehold and therefore owns both the house and the land on which it stands. In 18th-century London such a situation was uncommon. Even the very wealthy would sign a lease on a house for anything from a few months (to attend the London social season) to a period of years. Thirty years was common but it could be anything up to ninety-nine years. The London to which the Lee family returned had expanded hugely in the two decades since Robert had left. There were two new bridges across the Thames – Westminster Bridge which had been under construction when he left was opened in 1750, Blackfriars Bridge opened in 1769. London Bridge had finally lost its jumble of medieval houses and shops in 1757 and acquired a new and elegant Italian balustrade. In addition to the development of new bridges, London was spreading rapidly outwards, covering areas that had been just fields in Robert's youth, and the population had grown from about half a million in 1750 to three quarters of a million two decades later. Once fashionable areas like Covent Garden had gone downhill and were now the haunt of thieves and prostitutes. Their former inhabitants moved westwards, and large areas to the north and south of Oxford Street saw the development of elegant streets and squares, many of which still retain at least some of their Georgian houses. Berners Street runs at right angles to Oxford Street, then still sometimes known as the Oxford Road, and while it later acquired a reputation as a location for artists and writers, there were a number of families with Jamaican connections who settled there and its occupants were generally wealthy and well connected. The houses were new – elegant, Georgian terraces with rear access to their stables via Berners Mews. The Lee's house at number twenty-six was described as having lofty airy bed chambers of good proportions, servants rooms and numerous closets, lofty capacious drawing room with an elegant chimney piece and stucco cornice, a large dining room and sideboard recess, library, lofty entrance hall, and suitable attached offices well arranged, and supplied with water; standing for two carriages, stabling for five horses and dry arched cellaring. The history of the development of this area goes back to the middle of the previous century when, in 1654, Josias Berners bought an estate in the parish of St Marylebone for £970 from Sir Francis Williamson of Isleworth. Substantial development was carried out in the first half of the eighteenth century by William Berners, and so the family gave their name to the street. The Berners family were connected to Jamaica three times over through the Jarrett family. Three of William Berners' grandchildren married Jarretts of Orange Valley, Trelawny – Maria Berners married Herbert Newton Jarrett (the third of that name), her brother William married Rachel Allen Jarrett (the second of that name) and their brother Henry Denny Berners married Sarah Jarrett. Sarah and Rachel were sisters, Herbert was their father's much younger half-brother. But to return to Berners Street! The usual pattern of development in the eighteenth century was for the land owner to lease out parcels of land for development to speculative builders who would erect a group of houses and then lease these on to tenants. Sometimes the builder would merely erect a shell and the interior finishing would be carried out by someone else, often under the direction of the intended tenant. There was no requirement for consistency in the appearance of the houses, although the fashion for classical proportions to some extent encouraged it. Unlike today no planning permission was required and there were effectively few building regulations to control the quality of the build. There were some regulations relating for example to the materials of construction and the width of streets that had followed from the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is for this reason that these elegant Georgian houses were generally constructed of brick, the brick earth being dug from the very substantial clay deposits which surround London. For example the small town of Ware in Hertfordshire had substantial brick fields and a good line of transport for the bricks into London by barge down the Lea navigation (at the end of which today stands the Olympic Park). Among the owners of land in Marylebone were the Dukes of Chandos, of Devonshire and of Portland whose names are commemorated today in its streets and squares. You can read a contemporary description of the area's development written at the end of the 18th century by Daniel Lysons whose Environs of London is a wonderful source of information on 18th century London. The extent of settlement in the area by members of the Plantocracy is evidenced by the numbers of records in the parish registers of St Marylebone, for their baptisms, marriages and burials. Later in the century these wealthy occupants moved gradually northwards as development continued over the old Marylebone Gardens, once an elegant walking place but now overtaken by the profits to be made from development. Even Robert Cooper Lee moved on. Though he retained the lease on the Berners Street house, he moved to the newly completed Bedford Square, also occupied by Jamaican ex-pats such as Marchant Tubb, and members of the Hibbert family. Although Bedford Square ... remains largely unchanged, Robert Cooper Lee's Berners Street house is long gone, along with much of 18th century London, replaced by Victorian apartments, flattened by wartime bombs, rebuilt after the war and replaced again by glass and steel tower blocks.

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construct a sewer from Wells Lane to Rathbone Place. Huddle began to build the houses in Oxford Street at once, and apportioned there rents, the first lease for ninety-nine years being granted in 1739. The total annual rent received by the estate for the Oxford Street houses was £135 8s. until the last of the old leases fell in 1838. The sewer referred to still runs under some of the houses in Berners Street and Wells Street, but it is now disused. Between 1750 and 1763 the existing streets on the Estate were laid out: the first lease granted in Newman Street is dated 1750, in Charles Street, now called Mortimer Street, in 1759, in Castle Street and Wells Street in 1760, in Berners Street in 1763, and in Suffolk Street, now called Nassau Street, in 1764. Building must have gone on rapidly, for in 1773 there were existing sixty completed houses in Berners Street, twenty-three in Castle Street, thirty-five in Mortimer Street, exclusive of the

454:(nicknamed Nelly), who at 19 was 27 years younger than him, and the same age as his eldest daughter. It was September 1858 when she moved in accompanied by her mother Francis, who was an actress, and two sisters, Maria, another actress, and Fanny, a singer. After just a month Ellen and Maria reported to him that they were being pestered by a policeman, whom Dickens suspected of having been bribed by a man sexually interested in either or both of them. He complained of this "extraordinary, and dangerous and unwarrantable conduct in a policeman" whom he thought should be dismissed. But fear of publicity prevented him pursuing it. Perhaps that was why they all moved in March 1859 to 399:, the architect and interior decorator, was able to build himself a house "in his own speculation", at 13, Berners Street, along with two adjacent houses, no. 14 for James Lacy and no. 15 for Thomas Rouse, all begun in 1764. According to his biographer John Harris, "Chambers's garden is terminated on the mews by a stable and adjacent a large room that must have been his drawing office, allowing access from the mews for the assistants. The rear of his house was decorated in papier mâché in a 'fanciful', perhaps Chinoiserie, style." Images of some of Chambers' interiors are held in the RIBA library. 211:

incorporated in 1834, for the cultivation and promotion of medicine and surgery. The society possesses a good library, numbering some 25,000 volumes. Here, too, are the Obstetrical Society of London, instituted in 1858; and the Pathological Society, founded in 1846. The lastnamed society was instituted for the exhibition and examination of specimens, drawings, microscopic preparations, casts or models of morbid parts, with accompanying written or oral descriptions, illustrative of pathological science. All the above-mentioned medical societies, together with another styled the

733:, harp maker. Thomas Dodd came from a family of instrument makers – Dodd violin bows had been famous since the mid-1700. His father Edward died in 1810 at the very respectable age of 95. Dodd was mainly a dealer in instruments from 1809 to 1823, when he moved to Berners Street and then got interested in harps. He was also at Berwick Street in 1827 before returning to Berners Street. Thomas died in about 1830, and the business carried on until 1846 – presumably by means of his 2 sons (see Edward Dodd, 3, Berners Street). There is an 1822 patent for a laminated neck. 321:

award was made to the initial claimant, Thomas Boxill, as executor of Rebecca Rowe. Andrew Robertson of 19 Berners Street lodged another unsuccessful counterclaim with his wife Ann Phillips Robertson as legatee and annuitant under the will of Samuel Boxill (Barbados #264). This claim is for 122 enslaved on the Waterford Estate, Barbados. Samuel Boxill sold the enslaved to James D. Maycock, and the claim is awarded to Richard Deane as executor of John Higginson, surviving partner of Sir William Barton and George Irlam, creditors of Maycock.

81: 739:, harp maker (53 Berners Street). There were several generations of Haarnack dating up to the mid-1920s. The business was at Charlotte Street and there was a showroom in Fitzroy Square. For a time they were also at 53 Berners Street down the road from Dodds. The first of the line was chief mechanic at Erards in 1808. Haarnack were one of the last makers to continue trading and also had a thriving repair business. Marie Goosens mentions meeting 3 generations at their shop in her book "Life on a Harpstring". 382:. On 21 October he walked with PC French around "District 3" including the area "bounded on the North by Mortimer Street and Goodge St. on the East by Charlotte St. and Rathbone Place, on the South by Oxford Street and on the West by Regent St. being part of the parishes of All Souls and All Saints." Setting out from the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street he walked north up Berners Street noting only "4 1/2 storeys, centre for music establishments, piano, instrument, music publishers etc." 364:, that he could transform any house in London into the most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors, and assistance. Hook stationed himself in the house directly opposite 54 Berners Street, from where he and his friend spent the day watching the chaos unfold. The site at 54 Berners Street is now occupied by the Sanderson Hotel. 427:. Dickens' maternal great aunt, Mrs Charles Charlton, ran a lodging house at 16 Berners Street, and Dickens was often taken here by his mother, and got a job as a result in 1827. One of the lodgers was a young lawyer called Edward Blackmore, who was impressed by the youngster and employed him as a solicitor's clerk at Ellis & Blackmore in Grays Inn at the age of 15 (for more than twice the pay of Dickens' dreaded, and latterly famous, blacking factory job). 343:

Slave ownership was spread across the British Isles, by no means confined to the old slaving ports, and included men and women of varied ages, ranging from the aristocracy and gentry to sections of the middle classes. Despite the popular enthusiasm for abolition, slave owners had no compunction in seeking compensation – apparently totally unembarrassed by this property that had been widely constructed by abolitionists as a "stain on the nation".

335:] of £60 4s 0d for 3 enslaved on Barbados (claim # 2432). Tentative identification as Rev Stephen Isaacson of Berners Street, on the provisional committee of the Cheltenam, Oxford and Brighton Junction Railway, and director of Galway & Ennis Railways (Times, 7 October 1845, p. 13). P. Kilkelly, 'merchant, of Barbadoes, Tavistock Square, is also on the provisional committee of the Barbados General Railway. 279:

thanks for the Distinctions with which I was elected, the Kindness with which my occasional Absence has been permitted, & the Civilities which I have received. I shall always wish Prosperity to the Hospital tho I can no longer attend it, & shall remember all your Favours with that Gratitude which they may justly claim, from Gentlemen. Your most obliged and most humble servant, Richard Bathurst

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executrix of John Elmslie junior, who had died in July 1829 (£2566 4s. 5d for 133 enslaved). Among the heirs of John Elmslie senior listed in Boyle's Directory of 1835 were his eldest surviving son James Elmslie at 18 Upper Gower Street, London; Mrs Elmslie, widow of his second son John junior, at 9 Upper Gloucester Place, London; and William Elmslie, fourth surviving son, at 24

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newspapers and periodicals; a drawing room for society and conversation, and a dining room. The club was strictly unsectarian, and was open to Foreign as well as English members. The committee required each potential member to supply a reference as to respectability. The Berners Club was no longer in existence in 1898.

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The southern side of Charles Street, which is continued by Goodge Street into Tottenham Court Road, presents a busy appearance, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings; and as one of the few street markets remaining at the West-end, and probably destined at no long interval to disappear, may claim

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Berners Street forms the head-quarters of several foreign and charitable institutions, some of which have been established ever since the last century. In 1788 was founded the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. The Medical and Chirurgical Society was established in 1805, and

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and 100 feet in depth (with the exception of width required for two proposed new streets – which would be the present Berners and Newman Streets and a widening of Wells Lane) at a total rent of 4s. per foot per annum. Huddle was to pull down all old buildings and to erect new ones, and Berners was to

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The UCL Legacies of British Slave-ownership project explores the mechanisms by which wealth flowed from Caribbean plantations to metropolitan Britain. One such mechanism was the payment by UK taxpayers of approximately £10 million to compensate slave-owners after the abolition of slavery in the

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When Robert Cooper Lee returned to England from Jamaica with his family at the end of August 1771, they lived for a short time at Old Bond Street in London. But within a very few weeks Robert found a house in Berners Street on which he signed a lease for thirty years. Today in Britain anyone who can

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for Music (29–33 Berners Street), formerly the Performing Right Society, founded in 1914, is a UK copyright collection society and performance rights organisation undertaking collective rights management for musical works. PRS for Music was formed in 1997 as the MCPS-PRS Alliance, bringing together

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In 1871 the committee of the Berners Club included Francis Power Cobbe and Barbara Bodichon. The club to which the annual subscription was 10s, was open from 8 am until 10.30 pm on weekdays and from 9 am until 10.30 pm on Sundays. The club contained a reading room, supplied with

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Berners Street, so called after the family title of its ground-landlord, runs northward a little to the east of Wells Street. It was built about the middle of the last century, and has always been celebrated as the "home and haunt" of artists, painters, and sculptors. Among its former residents are

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is Europe's largest printed music publisher, with headquarters in Berners Street, London. It owns the rights to hundreds of thousands of songs, imprints both for books and sheet music, operates the UK's largest chain of music shops, and sells sheet music, instruments and accessories direct through

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Counterclaimed for 2 enslaved in Barbados (claim # 299) in right of his wife Ann Philips Boxill, stating that the late Rebecca Rowe who died in December 1831 bequeathed all her property to the said Ann Philips Boxill 'and two other persons' (T71/895). His address is given as 19 Berners Street. The

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In Charles Street, at the top of Berners Street, the view down which it commands, is the Middlesex Hospital. The building, which is of brick, and very extensive, comprises a centre and wings; it is fitted up with baths, laboratory works, ventilating shaft, and, indeed, all the necessary appliances

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was based. Dickens described her as "a conceited old creature, cold and formal in manner" who was "dressed entirely in white with a ghastly white plaiting round her head and face inside her white bonnet." He added that she "went simpering mad on personal grounds alone – no doubt because a wealthy

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Gentlemen, Being obliged by the Necessity of my Affairs to make a second Voyage to Jamaica, & being uncertain when I shall be able to return, I beg that from this Day you will consider my Place in your Hospital as vacant. I cannot Gentlemen make this Resignation without returning my sincerest

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We know that in addition to the many absentee planters, bankers and financiers directly concerned with the business of sugar and slavery, there were many other types of claimant: clergymen, for example, or the widows and single women, some of whom had been left property in the enslaved in trust.

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By the end of the nineteenth century the area around Berners Street was no longer completely residential and development plots were being amalgamated for the erection of larger commercial and semi-industrial buildings or for mansion blocks of flats. Examples of such mansion blocks include the

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There were claims for two large estates in Jamaica by the heirs of John Elmslie, who had died in August 1822 (St George no 324 and St Thomas-in-the-East no 468, total of £9176 7s 10d for 508 enslaved). In addition, compensation for St Thomas-in-the-East no 469 was awarded to the executors and

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on the corner of Oxford Street and Berners Street. Its building was originally built in the late nineteenth century, and the store moved into the building in the early 1900s, remaining there until it closed in 1983. Bourne & Hollingsworth is featured in the 1954

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Quaker wouldn't marry her. This is her bridal dress. She is always walking up here… we observe in her mincing step and fishy eye that she intends to lead him a sharp life." This was in his essay "Where We Stopped Growing" which was published in

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Genealogist Anne M. Powers wrote a study of the interchange between 18th-century Jamaica and mercantile London in her book and blog 'A Parcel of Ribbons', which gives some insight into Berners Street in colonial times:

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for comfort, &c. The hospital dates from about ten or twenty years after the splendid bequest of Thomas Guy, the penurious bookseller of Lombard Street. It was first established, in 1745, in Windmill Street,

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a short notice. To the long row of stallkeepers on its southern side, who display their stores of fish, fruit, and vegetables in hand-barrows and baskets, and on movable slabs, we may apply the words of

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to be reckoned Opie, Fuseli, and Sir William Chambers, the latter of whom we have already mentioned in connection with Somerset House. Opie was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His second wife,

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shows John Elmslie of Berners Street aged 83 buried at Lewisham St Mary 31 August 1822; the will of John Elmslie of Berners Street was proved 2 November 1822, PROB 11/1663. Cited at

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Keith Prowse & Co Ltd, Manufacturer of Automatic Machines, Automatic Pianos and Musical Instruments, Effects Machines, Bioscope Entertainment Provider, (38, Berners Street) 1909

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took a series of walks with Police Constable R.J. French of the Tottenham Court Road subdivision of the D police division and recorded observations in his notebooks for

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United Kingdom's American possessions in 1834. A map of beneficiaries in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia shows beneficiaries in Berners Street included:

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Edward Walford evokes something of the street market atmosphere at the corner of Berners Street and Charles Street so vividly described by

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From the 19th century Berners Street was the home of notable cabinet makers, upholsterers and furnishing companies including

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Berners Street was originally developed as a residential street by the Berners Estate in the mid-eighteenth century.

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On 2 November 1756, Richard Bathurst delivered his resignation letter to the Board of the Middlesex Hospital, thus:

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Walford records the proliferation of charitable and medical institutions in Berners Street during the 19th century:

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was at 23 Berners Street from 1820 to 1858, and public concerts were held there. By the 1920s and into the 1950s

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two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and Performing Right Society (PRS).

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On 21st May 1738, William Berners let for ninety-nine years to Thomas Huddle the whole frontage of 655 feet to

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The London Project records several businesses involved in the early film industry located in Berners Street:

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Thomas Collins, an ornamental plasterer who worked for, and was a friend and partner of Sir William Chambers.

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Dr William Beale Marston's Museum of Science, Anatomy and The Wonders of Nature, opened (47, Berners Street)

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The harp in early nineteenth-century Britain: innovation, business, and making in Jacob Erat’s manufactory

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The Medical and Chirurgical Society, established in 1805, and incorporated in 1834 (53, Berners Street)

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Madame Caplin's Anatomical and Physiological Gallery (for Ladies only) opened 1859 (58 Berners Street)

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It was in Berners Street that, as a boy, Dickens saw a wandering woman, upon whom the character

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Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, founded 1788 (53, Berners Street)

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John Slater, FRSA, architect and surveyor to the Berners Estate (46, Berners Street), c. 1891

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York Hotel, later converted into the mansion block known as York House (12, Berners Street)

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Later in life, at 31 Berners Street, Dickens installed his secret young lover, the actress

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Berners Street runs approximately 195 metres in a northerly direction from the junction of

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Day and Night Screens Ltd, Screen Manufacturer and Supplier, (38a, Berners Street) 1913

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c. 1898–1900, secretary L. Jackson) and listed at 73 and 75 Mortimer Street until 1924.

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Battam and Heywood, carver and gilder (Corner of Berners Street and 114, Oxford Street)

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Various piano makers were located in Berners Street between 1820 and 1860, including:

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During the 20th century several hotels became established on Berners Street including

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Robert Cooper Lee (26, Berners Street) 30-year lease from 1771, subsequently moved to

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The London Association for the Protection of Trade (16, Berners Street) 19th century

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Many of these institutions springing up in proximity to the Middlesex Hospital:

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Taylor, Taylor & Hobson Ltd, Lens Manufacturer (18, Berners Street) 1910

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Emerson's, 'art furniture', (Berners Street), c.1890, a shop established by

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James Duff Brown and Stephen Samuel Stratton. 'Henry Charles Banister', in

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The Obstetrical Society of London, instituted in 1858 (53, Berners Street)

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Duncan, Watson and Co, Electrical Engineers, (62, Berners Street) 1914

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The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (22, Berners Street)

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Howard & Sons, furniture makers (22, 26 & 27, Berners Street)

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Claimant in right of his wife Anna Maria Miller Killikenny [

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Percy Heffer and Company, wallpaper showroom (64, Berners Street)

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The street was given notoriety by a practical joke, known as the

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Teale Fireplace Company, fireplace showroom (28, Berners Street)

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Barnard, W & Son, Artists Colours, (9, Berners Street) 1907

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The Pathological Society, founded in 1846 (53, Berners Street)

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The W1W Tree Planting Initiative for Marylebone and Fitzrovia

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The W1W Tree Planting Initiative for Marylebone and Fitzrovia

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Jacob & James Erart fl. c. 1855 (23, Berners Street) 1855

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The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866 -1928

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Messrs J Schweppe & Co (51, Berners Street) 19th century

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Sichel, O & Co, Lens Manufacturer, (Berners Street) 1910

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John Slater, surveyor of the Berners Estate, wrote in 1918:

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New Things Ltd, Automatic Pianos, (38, Berners Street) 1910

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Lincrusta-Walton Wallcoverings, Showroom (9 Berners Street)

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Berners Club for Women (9, Berners Street) c. 1871–1898.

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Harrison and Co, Film Dealer, (66, Berners Street) 1900

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Duff & Hodgson fl. 1843–60 (3, Berners Street) 1850

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Frederick Priestley (15, Berners Street) fl. c. 1850–60

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Philip George Holcombe (38, Berners Street) fl. 1855–60

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Filmer & Son, furniture makers (34, Berners Street)

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James Kennay & Co (15, Berners Street) fl. 1840–57

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Berners Street is strongly associated with the writer

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Well Fire & Foundry Company (15, Berners Street)

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Sandon & Steadman (Berners Street) c. 1890–1900

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