The facade of numbers 87 and 89 Harley Street, a private hospital, now known as the Harley Street Clinic

Date:
1917
Location:
87-89 Harley Street, Marylebone, City Of Westminster, Greater London Authority
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Harley Street Clinic, 87-89 Harley Street, Marylebone, City Of Westminster, Greater London Authority
Reference:
BL23844
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

A private hospital is thought to have been established in this building in 1836, making it one of Britain's oldest and largest private hospitals. This photograph is part of a series taken for the Howard de Walden Estate, which owns or leases ninety-two acres (the majority) of the Marylebone area of London. It is almost certain that this photograph - and the rest of the series it belongs to - was commissioned during preparations for the forming of the first de Walden family Estate company in 1918, after considerable refurbishment and rebuilding works were carried out in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. The estate is named after the 6th Baron Howard de Walden, whose widow Lucy Joan Bentinck was passed possession of the estate as sister of the Duke of Portland, who died without male successor. The Portland family had previously held the estate for five generations until 1879.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series of photographic negatives and prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company

Architect: White, John

Keywords

Victorian Clinic, Victorian Hospital, Georgian Town House, Georgian Terraced House, Health And Welfare