I’m constantly amazed at the wealth of resources online that show you exactly what a particular part of London looked like even hundreds of years ago.
I love this picture of Leicester Square even though it is perhaps 100 years prior to the time setting of Ladies’ Own Bakery (which begins in 1813, in the late spring after the events of What a Duchess Does). By 1813, the grand Leicester House, at the northeast corner of the square, was gone, and replaced by more regular buildings. The square itself was incredibly overgrown and considered an eyesore.
There are British library resources that list many people who owned or rented every house on this square, for over a hundred years. Who knew?
Two Princes of Wales lived in Leicester House at various times, but at the time of our writing, the buildings around have become less occupied by the nobility and more by doctors, businessmen, some nobility, hotels (the story of the hotels is another post), and of course shops like Ladies’ Own Bakery.
I’m constantly amazed at the wealth of resources online that show you exactly what a particular part of London looked like even hundreds of years ago.
I love this picture of Leicester Square even though it is perhaps 100 years prior to the time setting of Ladies’ Own Bakery (which begins in 1813, in the late spring after the events of What a Duchess Does). By 1813, the grand Leicester House, at the northeast corner of the square, was gone, and replaced by more regular buildings. The square itself was incredibly overgrown and considered an eyesore.
There are British library resources that list many people who owned or rented every house on this square, for over a hundred years. Who knew?
Two Princes of Wales lived in Leicester House at various times, but at the time of our writing, the buildings around have become less occupied by the nobility and more by doctors, businessmen, some nobility, hotels (the story of the hotels is another post), and of course shops like Ladies’ Own Bakery.