Norfolk Street in the

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(between

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and the

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) ran from

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in the north to the Westminster reach of the Thames. It then ran to a strand of public gardens after the

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was built (1865–70), what is now Temple Place. It was crossed only by Howard Street. It was demolished in the 1970s.

History

The Street was built on land once occupied by Arundel House and its gardens, the property of the

Howard family The Howard family is an English noble family Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy (class), aristocracy. It is normally appointed by and ranked immediately below Royal family, royalty. Nobility has of ...

, Dukes of Norfolk; a dukedom (before which earldom) of medieval root. The head of the family plays a role in each coronation and each state opening of parliament. Off from its central crossroads are

Arundel Arundel ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Arun District of the South Downs, West Sussex, England. The much-conserved town has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral. Arundel has a museum and comes second behind much la ...

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and

Howard Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for ...

Streets built after sprawling

Arundel House Arundel House was a London town-house located between the Strand and the River Thames, near the Church of St Clement Danes. History During the Middle Ages, it was the London residence of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, when it was known ...

was demolished by the earl of Arundel in 1678. Under Duke of Norfolk, Surrey and Arundel are subsidiary earldoms, plus Howard is used, the surname of the family. A Norfolk Street tube station was planned in 1902, never built. Norfolk Street and Howard Street were demolished in the 1970s to build Arundel Great Court, or Great Arundel Court, itself demolished in the mid 2010s – having been purchased in 2012.

Buildings

The numbering scheme of latter decades is known. № 11 to 12: the south-west corner: Amberley House, office of the Ecclesiastical Association.Amberley House, 11–12 Norfolk Street, Westminster.
Historic England. Retrieved 23 January 2017. № 10: Hastings House: hosted the Women Writers' Club from 1894. From here the early literary agent A. P. Watt (1834–1914) practised. By the 1900s the Middle Classes Defence Organization shared the building."Altercation over civil society: The bitter cry of the Edwardian middle classes" by Philip Waller in

Oswaldestre House

№ 33 to 35: Oswaldestre House: was associated with engineering and radio technology. The name is a subsidiary title of the Dukes of Norfolk. '' The Engineer'' newspaper (est. 1856) was based there and the building was also the registered address of a large number of

consulting engineer Engineering consulting is the practice of performing engineering as a consulting engineer. It assists individuals, public and private companies with process management, idea organization, product design, fabrication, maintenance, repair and operati ...

s, such as Henry Metcalfe Hobart. The

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had an early radio station (2WP) on the third floor of the building in 1922.

Former inhabitants

Those having at least lived some time here include: Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) ''Guide to literary London''. London:

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. pp. 85–86. *

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, ruler of Russia in 1698. *

William Penn William Penn ( – ) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quakers, Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonization of the Americas, British colonial era. An advocate of democracy and religi ...

(born 1644), founder of Pennsylvania. *

Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy ...

, author, at № 35 in 1805. *

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame durin ...

, poet, at № 13 and 32 in 1816. *

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth ...

, poet, at № 42 in 1816. * Mary Mitford,

bluestocking ''Bluestocking'' (also spaced blue-stocking or blue stockings) is a Pejorative, derogatory term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic El ...

, at № 35 in the 1830s. *

Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of ...

, poet, in 1842. *

Louisa Twining Louisa Twining (16 November 1820 – 25 September 1912) was an English philanthropic worker who devoted herself to issues and tasks related to the English Poor Law. Her family owned the famous Twinings tea business on the Strand, which is stil ...

(born 1820), philanthropist.

The Quiver ''The Quiver'' (18611956) was a weekly magazine published by Cassell's and was "designed for the defence and promotion of biblical truth and the advance of religion in the homes of the people." History John Cassell (18171865), the English pu ...

, Annual Volume, 1903, page 463

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