Wanderings in London, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Pall Mall

[1] It has been suggested that the name may have had its origin in the famous “Pickadilla” cakes first made in old Pickadilla Hall, and made and sold at “Stewart’s” to the present day. [Publisher’s Note.]

[2] The great authority for it is Mr. Arthur Dasent’s book, while I have a chapter on it in my “History of the Squares of London.”—E. B. C.

[3] As an example of the rebuilding of Piccadilly, so rapidly going on during the last few years, a drawing of one of its handsomest structures, Denman House, at the corner of Air Street, is given. Built in 1903, it replaces the old building, where the late Mr. James L. Denman had been established for over half a century. Messrs. Denman & Co., having acquired the freeholds of the vineyards of the celebrated “J. Lemoine,” Champagne, and also the “Chateau Livran” estate with its 350 acres of vines in the Medoc, required larger premises. Denman House was therefore built, from the designs of Mr. Harold A. Woodington, A.R.I.B.A. The upper part of the old building, which appears in the vignette, was leased in the early fifties to the Marquis Townshend for the Pall Mall Club.—(Publishers’ Note).