Pelham Place is a street of

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Georgian terraced houses in

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, London, England. Pelham Place runs north to south from Pelham Place to Pelham Crescent. 2-14 is a circa 1825 terrace. 1-29 is an 1833 terrace, designed by the architect

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. 1-29 is similarly grade II listed. In 1950, the British-born American winemaker Peter Newton met his future wife, Anne St. Aubyn at a party in his house in Pelham Place.

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briefly lived in Pelham Place in the 1950s, while working at the

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on the

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show. In 1967,

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photographed the model

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wearing a yellow velvet dress by John Bates for Jean Varon in the residence of 8 Pelham Place, for an editorial for

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. Beaton lived here from 1940 to 1975. This was later the home of Jane, Lady Abdy.

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