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Bolton Street, London
Bolton Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London. The street runs from Curzon Street in the north to Piccadilly in the south. History Bolton Street, which was named after the Duke of Bolton, and which until 1708 was the westernmost street of London,"Bolton Street, W1." in was built in about 1696. Notable inhabitants Former residents of Bolton Street include: *Madame D'Arblay, Madame D'Arblay (pseudonym Fanny Burney), playwright, at No. 11. Her former residence is marked by a brown plaque erected by the Society of Arts; *Richard Clement (1754 - 1829), sugar plantation owner of Barbados, at No. 13 *Thomas Moody (British Army officer), Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt., a British geopolitical expert to the Colonial Office, British Colonial Office, at No. 23; *Henry James, novelist, at No. 3.; *John Pitt Dening, soldier and polo player, who shot himself at the Bolton House Hotel in the street in 1929. Buildings The western side of the street has been almost completely repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolton Street, Mayfair - Geograph
Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area in the 14th century, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. The urbanisation and development of the town largely coincided with the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. Bolton was a 19th-century boomtown and, at its zenith in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of Spinning (textiles), cotton spinning in the world. The British cotton industry declined sharply after the First World War and, by the 1980s, cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in Bolton. Close to the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is north-west of Manchester and lies between Manchester, Darwen, Blackburn, Chorley, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
