Grosvenor Square (/ˈɡroʊvənər/ GROH-vən-ər) is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London. It is the centrepiece of the...
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Mayfair (section Grosvenor family and estates)
included Hanover Square, Berkeley Square and Grosvenor Square, which were surrounded by high-quality houses, and St George's Hanover Square Church. By the...
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largely untouched by the Grosvenors until the 1720s, when they developed the northern part, now known as Mayfair, around Grosvenor Square. A few generations...
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Street until 1912, when it moved to 4 Grosvenor Gardens. In 1938, the embassy was moved to 1 Grosvenor Square (which later housed part of the Canadian...
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Macdonald House, London (redirect from 1 Grosvenor Square)
Macdonald House was a seven-storey Neo-Georgian style building on Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, London. It was part of the High Commission of Canada from...
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I Live in Grosvenor Square is a British comedy-drama romance war film directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox. It was the first of Wilcox's "London films"...
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influence in the 19th century. The house gave its name to Upper Grosvenor Street and Grosvenor Square. The house was requisitioned during the First World War...
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Bryanston Square in London and she was known as Lady Ribblesdale. Lister died six years later on October 21, 1925, at their townhouse on Grosvenor Square in...
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Gallery Grosvenor House Grosvenor House Hotel Grosvenor School of Modern Art Grosvenor Square Grosvenor Bridge (Chester) Grosvenor Museum Grosvenor Rowing...
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Grosvenor Square (/ˈɡroʊvənər/ GROH-vən-ər) is a Victorian square located in the inner suburb of Rathmines on the Southside of Dublin. While construction...
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case Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor country house. It is larger but less grand than the central feature of the district, Belgrave Square, and both larger and...
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Building (fronting Grosvenor Square); both have the longest frontage of their respective streets. The senior branch of the Grosvenor family is in British...
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suicide – shooting himself in the head with a pistol in his house in Grosvenor Square; "nobody knows why or wherefore," wrote Horace Walpole, "except that...
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Fashionable terraces appeared in London's Grosvenor Square from 1727 onwards and in Bath's Queen Square from 1729 onwards. The Scottish architect Robert...
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The Biltmore Mayfair is a 5-star luxury hotel located at 44 Grosvenor Square in the Mayfair area of London, England. It underwent significant renovations...
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Belgravia (section Belgrave Square)
Eaton Square. Much of Belgravia, known as the Grosvenor Estate, is still owned by a family property company, the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor Group...
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S. military in Vietnam. On March 17, an anti-war demonstration in Grosvenor Square, London, ended with 86 people injured and 200 demonstrators arrested...
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involvement in the Vietnam War before marching to the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square. Throughout the 1980s, a continuous anti-apartheid protest was held...
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entrance at the back on Grosvenor Square. The house was built about 1728 as part of the development of Grosvenor Square by the Grosvenor family. However, it...
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demonstrations held outside the U.S. Embassy in London, then based at Grosvenor Square, the squad's purpose was to infiltrate "left-wing direct-action groups"...
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killed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. She died on 27 March 1814 in Grosvenor Square, London. In 1999, Irish Screen, BBC America and WGBH produced Aristocrats...
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the Grosvenor Estate. Named after the Tyburn that it crossed, it was developed in the first half of the 18th century and runs from Hanover Square to Grosvenor...
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world—except for me." Harrison appeared opposite Anna Neagle in I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) which was another big hit. Also popular was The Rake's Progress...
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distributed to King films. Jagger went to England to appear in I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) with Anna Neagle and Rex Harrison. He had good roles in Sister...
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original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013. "I Live in Grosvenor Square". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original...
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corner of Grosvenor Square to Curzon Street. The street is named after Hugh Audley, whose heirs acquired the land following Sir Thomas Grosvenor's marriage...
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public squares and circuses. Berkeley Square Cambridge Circus Cavendish Square Grosvenor Square Hanover Square Hyde Park Corner Leicester Square Manchester...
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The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square is a 1922 British silent romance film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Betty Faire, Jack Hobbs and Eileen Magrath...
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participated in the anti-Vietnam War protest outside United States Embassy in Grosvenor Square. She was allowed to enter the embassy to deliver a protest. Redgrave...
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Adventures of Susan, National Velvet, Mrs. Skefflington, I Live in Grosvenor Square, Nob Hill, Perfect Strangers, The Valley of Decision, Conflict and...
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