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Streets of London – Portland Place, London 1810-1820

“It is within the memory of some persons, that Parliament-street and Whitehall once formed the finest avenue in the metropolis. Oxford-street was yet but indifferently inhabited, and Portland-place not built. Oxford-street ceased at Mary-le-bonelane: at that spot Tyburn-road began, and for many years presented the sort of humble character of buildings that usually skirt the…

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