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ANTIQUE ENGLISH GEORGIAN STERLING SILVER - PARKER & WAKELIN LONDON 1760-1776
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W. J. Loftie, adding to the incomplete work of Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of London with this look at Bedford Square:

Bedford Square also falls within St. Giles's parish, but it belongs by character and date to Bloomsbury.

The Square was erected about the very end of the eighteenth century.

Dobie says that "Bedford Square arose from a cow-yard to its present magnificent form...with its avenues and neighbouring streets...chiefly erected since 1778," while it appears in a map of 1799 as "St. Giles's Runs."

The official residence of the Lord Chancellor was on the east side.

Lord Loughborough lived there, and subsequently Lord Eldon, who had to escape with his wife into the British Museum gardens when the mob made an attack on his house during the Corn Law riots.

The streets running north and south are all of the same prosperous, substantial character. About Chenies Street large modern red-brick mansions have arisen.

Next: Bloomsbury: Woburn Square