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Portman Estate

Categories: Property

Wikipedia has a very useful map showing "Estate (freehold) ownership of land in Central London as of 2023". The Portman Estate is shown in yellow.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Portman Estate

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First curry house

Site of Hindoostane Coffee House 1810 London's first Indian restaurant. Owne...

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Seacole - George Street

City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the...

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Special Operations Executive (SOE)

See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this plaque (in French).

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Duchy of Cornwall

Duchy of Cornwall

Something like a company, which invests mainly in land (mostly in the south-west of England) and with the income benefiting the Duke of Cornwall who is normally the monarch's eldest son. The biscui...

Group, Property

2 memorials
Whitehall Palace

Whitehall Palace

The palace covered the area approximately bounded by (clockwise) Northumberland Avenue, Victoria Embankment, Derby Gate, Downing Street, Horse Guards Road, The Mall.  The area was already a centre ...

Building, Property, Royalty

1 memorial
York Watergate

York Watergate

See Norwich Place/York House for more about the history of this site.  In 1874 the construction of Embankment Gardens left this watergate high and dry. In 1893, the watergate having fallen into de...

Building, Property

3 memorials
Lytham House

Lytham House

See Richard Ansdell.

Building, Property

1 memorial
Rosehaugh Stanhope self-build housing initiative for the unemployed

Rosehaugh Stanhope self-build housing initiative for the unemployed

Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments was responsible for a number of high-profile developments in the City, such as Broadgate. The Independent's 1992 report on the failure of the Rosehaugh company descr...

Concept, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial