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    Porchester Square is an archetypal-format, narrow London garden square in Bayswater on the cusp of inter-related Westbourne. It is lined with tall white...
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    and another friend Desmond Chapman-Huston offered his home at 12 Porchester Square, Bayswater, returning the hospitality that they had shown him whenever...
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    in memory of Zygielbojm was dedicated at the corner of Porchester Road and Porchester Square in London, near where he had committed suicide. The creation...
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    Porchester Terrace runs southwards to Kensington Gardens while in the west it ultimately merges into Kensington Gardens Square and Leinster Square. Moscow...
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    The development replaced New Market Square and a 1960s multi-storey car park and included covering Porchester Square and extending the centre to the east...
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    5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial...
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    Lancaster Gate tube station and Hyde Park before curving round to meet Porchester Square around Westbourne. The southern section is close to the border between...
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  • Square Porchester Square Portman Square Soho Square St George's Square St James's Square Smith Square Sussex Square Talbot Square Trafalgar Square Victoria...
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    Hill, Carlton, Cavendish, Colwick, Gedling, Netherfield, Phoenix and Porchester) had an estimated population of 48,416 in 2015. Owing to the growth of...
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    Carnarvon, KP, PC, DL, FRS, FSA (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the...
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    December 1842 Mount Street, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England Died 29 March 1929(1929-03-29) (aged 86) 26 Porchester Square, Bayswater, London, England...
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    1833), styled The Honourable Henry Herbert from 1780 to 1793 and Lord Porchester from 1793 to 1811, was a British peer, nobleman, and Whig politician....
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    friendship would remain platonic. Yeats finally visited Olivia at her Porchester Square home a few weeks later to present his well-thought-out intentions...
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  • England by Hal in the mid to late 1930s. Greta lived with Hal at 25 Fitzroy Square, London. After Hal joined the army she moved to 29 Baker Street, London...
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    He died in 1868 at the home of his daughter, Frances Morison, on Porchester Square, London. Much of his correspondence and other family records are archived...
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    Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more...
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    family through selling her works. She died on 26 April 1916 at 30 Porchester Square, Hyde Park, London. Her daughter, Edith Ferguson, also became a professional...
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    pseudo-Moorish style". Later in life, in 1823-4 Loudon designed Nos.3 and 5 Porchester Terrace, London as a "double detached villa", living in No.3 himself....
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  • clubs. LeRoc dances at the Notre Dame Hall, off Leicester Square, and Ceroc dances at the Porchester Hall in Bayswater rarely conflicted so it was easy to...
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  • parochial use as the Parish Church of St Mary St Mary ____________________ Porchester Priory Portsmouth Blackfriars projected house for Dominican Friars (1225)...
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    years the tournament was held at the Hyde Park Lawn Tennis Club in Porchester Square, London and consisted only of a men's singles competition. In 1890...
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    Arms. The street starts opposite Hyde Park with the side elevations of Porchester Lodge/Lancaster Corner (synonym: 100-101 Bayswater Road) which is listed...
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    Stereosonic. The group also performed their first-ever acoustic shows at Porchester Hall in London and The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, featuring Zoë Johnston...
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    the garden temples. His nephew and heir Henry Herbert was created Baron Porchester and later Earl of Carnarvon by George III. In 1680 Sir Robert Sawyer presented...
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    James Sheridan Knowles (1825) Henry in Don Pedro, King of Castile by Lord Porchester (1828) Don Leon in The Pledge by James Kenney (1831) Alfred the Great...
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    Wyoming U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop, the brother of lifetime friend Lady Porchester whose husband, George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, was the queen's...
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  • Knightsbridge  Kyrgyzstan Ascot House, 119 Crawford Street Marylebone  Laos 49 Porchester Terrace Bayswater  Latvia 45 Nottingham Place Marylebone  Lebanon 21 Kensington...
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    and 1830, the Collins family moved twice, first to Hampstead Square and then to Porchester Terrace, Bayswater. Wilkie and Charles received their early...
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    known by his courtesy title of Lord Porchester, and is still memorialised by "Porchester's Post", a 15 foot high square oak post which he erected in 1796...
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  • in London, England. In January 1980 he held the first Ceroc event in Porchester Hall in London. By 1982 Ceroc had a cabaret team, which performed routines...
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