Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
A bill from Parmentier's to a gentleman living in Harley Street, April
1812. A bottle each of orange and lemon 'syrop' and a dozen rout cakes
totals eighteen shillings.
Go back along the eastern side of the square to Baker Street. In
Mansfield Park
this was
the London address of the Andersons where Tom Bertram met Miss Anderson, who later
embarrassed him with her forward behaviour.
As you walk up Baker Street it is difficult to believe that it was called 'perhaps the hand-
somest street in London,' in
The Picture of London.
Turn right into George Street, the location of The Hindoostanee Coffee House, the first
Indian restaurant in London, opened by Sake Dean Mahomed in 1810. Despite offering
food that was advertised as authentically Indian, and giving gentlemen the opportunity to
smoke a hookah, it failed to become popular and closed after a year.
Manchester Square in 1813, showing Manchester House, now home to
the Wallace Collection.
George Street leads to Manchester Street, the temporary address of the Churchills in
Emma.
In 1814 the prophetess Joanna Southcott died at No. 38. Followers watched her
grave in St John's Wood churchyard for years in the hope of her promised resurrection.
Turn right to Manchester Square, the home of the Wallace Collection, a superb gallery
of art, furniture, paintings and armour. It was originally Manchester House which was, ac-
cording to
The Picture of London
, 'one of the best in London'.
Hinde Street leads from the square to ancient Marylebone Lane, winding through
Marylebone village. Ahead is Bentinck Street where Jane visited her friends the Cookes in
April 1811.
Turn right down Marylebone Lane, left into Wigmore Street and along to cross Wimpole
Street. This was the scene of scandal in
Mansfield Park
when Maria Rushworth, who lived
