Isbn: 9780954127503 - the adelphi: past and present - history and guide (5 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 192 pages. The area between the Strand and the River Thames is rich in historical associ ations and surviving specimens of domestic and public architecture. In the Middl e Ages the Bishops of Durham built a riverside palace which still gives its name to parts of the area. Many of the dramatic conflicts in Church and State during Tudor and Stuart times took place within its walls, as the names of such someti me residents as Catherine of Aragon, Thomas Wolsey, Lady Jane Grey and Sir Walte r Raleigh suggest. The name Adelphi was chosen by the Adam brothers to commemo rate their development in the area and although their riverside terrace was demo lished in 1936, much of the periphery of their estate remains, notably the Royal Society of Arts in John Adam Street. The western side of Robert Street where Ro bert Adam himself resided and where in modern times Kingsley Martin strove to ma intain the literary character of the district once associated with Thomas Hardy, J M Barrie, Richard D'Oyly Carte and George Bernard Shaw is now maintained by t he Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting. Within the walls of the RSA James Barry painted his masterpieces and the idea of the Great Exhibition w as conceived. Charles Dickens had once worked in the hated blacking factory at H ungerford Stairs, and wandered in his misery through the Adelphi arches and vaul ts, long commemorated by the Green Room Club's Fagin's Kitchen. He had also lo dged in Buckingham Street where Pepys had once lived and whose name recalls the great George Villiers, Lord High Admiral, as the surviving Watergate and many fi ne 17th century houses remind us. Victorian ebullience led to the creation of th e Embankment Gardens and the building of the Hotel Cecil and the Savoy Hotel. Th.…