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Jermyn Street Jermyn Street Page 4 Page 10 Page 14 a WORD The St. James’s Conservation Trust A Review of 2014 Featured in this edition Edition 18 Wilton’s Foster & Son Duke of York Restaurant Shoemakers Column and Steps Jermyn Street Jermyn Street Page 4 Page 10 Page 14 A WORD ST JAMES’S FROM OUR CONSERVATION TRUST Featured in this edition CHAIRMAN 4 WILTON’S The benefits of a refreshed Jermyn Street Trust after 15 years since it was established by John Beveridge QC, continues with the appointment of new Trustees. 6 WATERLOO PLACE Together our Deputy Chairman Update Kate Hobhouse, John Bodie and Dounia Nadar bring a wealth of local commercial and long term New buildings sympathetic to their setting will knowledge to the Trust. be replacing unattractive ones such as at 8 ST. JAMES’S SQUARE We welcome them and are Windsor House, also improving Arlington Street, Bennet Street and St. James’s Street. Babmaes Update grateful to all of the trustees for Street has a new lease of life with better paving their tireless work to maintain and the Trust’s work has paid off also in and enrich the area. St. James’s Square with an elegant layout and natural stone paving improvements. 10 ROSE FOUNDATION In this issue we also focus on later Grant Aid licensing hours. One of our earliest acts Looking forward our plans include a redesigned when we started out in 1998 was to website which will help us communicate our examine the impact of entertainment aims, achievements and how people can help licences on the unique character of this contribute to the improvement of the area. 10 FOSTER AND SON beloved area of London. We remain We have revamped our regular newsletter and vigilant and are concerned by late will feature those who make up the unique Jermyn Street night disturbance for residents and the character of St. James’s. In this issue you can extended hours of existing clubs, bars read our profile on Wilton’s Restaurant and and restaurants. So working with the Foster and Son, shoemakers of Jermyn Street. City of Westminster we plan to revisit 12 LATE LICENCING this topic and audit the total increase in In the coming year we hope to see even closer Issues hours and assess the impact. integration of initiatives for maintaining and enhancing St. James’s. We will continue to work Renewal is also a strong theme in in public and private partnerships. In particular this issue. There are a large number we work with the City of Westminster, of Trust supported developments on 13 A DAY IN THE LIFE The Crown Estate, other landowners and sites across St. James’s. While we do developers, the Heart of London Business Photo Competition not underestimate the day to day Alliance, who manage the Piccadilly and inconvenience that affects everyone St. James’s Business Improvement District, the who lives and works here, it is Jermyn Street Association, the St. James’s Square wonderful to see so many buildings Trust and the wider residential and commercial 14 THE GRAND OLD as they emerge restored, from their communities, including the soon to be approved Duke of York scaffolding, in St. James’s Square, St. James’s Neighbourhood Planning Forum. St. James’s Street as well as Regent Street, St. James’s. Andrew M. Love The St. James’s Conservation Trust Letters to the editor The Trustees would welcome Send your letters to The Trust Architect/Planner and Administrator, Atkins Ltd. letters or comments from readers Peter Heath RIBA MRTPI, Design Director, concerning the history, architecture, Euston Tower, 30th floor, commerce and social life of 286 Euston Road, St. James’s, for inclusion in future London NW1 3AT Newsletters. Tel: 07803 260 700 2 | Email: [email protected] “..London par excellence is bounded on the North by Piccadilly, on the South by Pall Mall, on the East by Haymarket, and on the West by St. James’s Street...” Theodore Hook 1870 | | 33 Image courtesy of Wilton’s Restaurant “...in 1942 a bomb landed on Wilton’S Restaurant St. James’s church...Wilton’s owner... said that she could no longer take Wilton’s is the finest of restaurants landed on St. James’s church the war and was going to close... and is located at 55 Jermyn Street in in Piccadilly close to Wilton’s the heart of St. James’s. It is an historic Oyster Rooms. Mr Hambro...suggested she should restaurant which originally opened as sell... ‘Put this place on the Bill...’” a shellfishmongers in Mayfair in 1742. It so happened that Sir Olav Hambro, The original proprietor George William the renowned banker and grand- Wilton would never have guessed father of the present proprietor was that this business would progress to enjoying a plateful of oysters at the become a world renowned restaurant bar and Mrs Leal, the owner, turned 270 years later. to him and said that she could no longer take the war and was Under George’s grandchildren it going to close Wilton’s. Mr Hambro moved to St. James’s in 1806 as understood and suggested she victuallers and purveyors of oysters. should sell it to him. Mr Hambro said Eventually becoming a fully fledged “Put this place on the Bill” having restaurant in Ryder Street in 1840 agreed a price of £1200 and that is known as Wilton’s Oyster Rooms and how Wilton’s came into the Hambro run by Robert Thomas Wilton who family. The next morning took over from his mother Frances. Mr Hambro, probably thinking “what have I done” passed on Robert’s son Frank became the 30% to his friend Bruce Ottley of licencee and the business moved Erlangers and through Mr Ottley to 12 King Street and was granted persuaded Jimmy Marks, the its first Royal Warrant in 1884 as oysterman at Bucks to come and run Purveyors of Oysters to Queen the newly acquired restaurant. Victoria and a second to the Prince of Wales who was known to enjoy Jimmy Marks was quite a character oysters by the dozen. and an old fashioned East Ender who “called a spade a spade”. In the In 1889, Wilton’s moved out of the austere days of wartime Britain there family for the first time and was was a 5 shilling limit on bills for three bought by a Mr David Winder and course meals and Wilton’s was a relocated to Duke Street for favourite watering hole for Winston five years and then moved to larger Churchill whose preferred order was Sir Olav Hambro : The Morning After premises in King Street. The licence caviar and oysters and the bill was Picture courtesy of : Wilton’s - The History : was then taken over by a Mrs Bessie left to take its course. Cartoonist (Gale) Leal in 1930 but in 1942 a bomb 4 | Wilton’S Restaurant In fact he let it go for eighteen months until Today the restaurant is a hive of It has been a landmark in many streets Marks tackled him: “Mr Churchill, sir, I think activity at lunchtime and, in the of St. James’s for over two centuries your secretary must have overlooked your evenings for dinner, ably managed and George William Wilton would be account” “Good heavens, Marks” Churchill by Jason Phillips who has a wealth of proud of what it is today especially replied ”I didn’t know you were hard up.” experience in restaurant management. when he was struggling to establish The longstanding members of staff are the original business in 1742 and In 1964, Wilton’s moved to Bury Street and led by Michael Stokes who is on the members of his family (doubtless) then in 1984 moved to the present site in front desk ready to greet his guests, warned him “would flounder within Jermyn Street when The Savoy Group had a and the head chef is Daniel Kent. It is the month George, mark our words.” management contract until it was taken back a restaurant for all seasons, obviously in hand by the Hambro family led by specialising in traditional English dishes Mr Jocelyn Hambro and his sons Rupert, as well as modern tastes and caters for Richard and James. all age groups. | 5 WATERLOO PLACE Approaching 200 years from the Battle that ended the Napoleonic War...18th June 1815 Historic Waterloo Place, a rectangular space, filled with Located at the southern end of Regent Street, but neglected statues, memorials and bounded by magnificent buildings, as little more than a parking space and vehicle junction for was created between the 1820s’ and 1830s’. a hundred years, it had been named in celebration of the The Trust’s 1999 report : “St. James’s - A Fragile Treasure”, famous battle that defeated the French Emperor, Napoleon identified the opportunities for restoration of its architects’ and ended what was originally known as “The Great War”, original intentions and improvements to increase public or as we know today, the Napoleonic Wars. The view above awareness of its heritage and attractions. shows a new battle : unauthorised coach parking. 6 | The Guards’ Crimean War Memorial : Deterrent bollards have had to be introduced to prevent unauthorised use of the new pedestrian spaces. The open space either side of the historic east- west route of Pall Mall, was one of architect John Nash’s great 18th century townscape innovations. It forms part of his concept for fashionable London, epitomised by Regent’s Park, Regent Street and the great Regency architecture of terraced houses, designed as palaces, such as those surviving examples fronting The Mall and Carlton House Terrace. The Trust’s persistence, in promoting Waterloo Place as in need of improvement, together with The Crown Estate’s strategy for improvements in phases of its land ownership of Regent Street and large parts of St.
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