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Berners Street

Berners Street is a thoroughfare located to the north of Oxford Street in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, originally developed as a residential street in the mid-18th century by property developer William Berners, and later devoted to larger commercial and semi-industrial buildings or mansion blocks of flats. It has associations with Charles Dickens, and was the location of makers of musical instruments including pianos and harps, as well as furniture and film-makers.

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Berners Street

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one trees were added to Berners Street in 2012. Berners Street was originally developed as a residential street by the Berners Estate in the mid-eighteenth...

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Berners Street hoax

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51°31′03″N 0°08′14″W / 51.5176°N 0.1372°W / 51.5176; -0.1372 The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, London, England...

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Berners Street Mansions

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51833; -0.13722 Berners Mansions is a six-storey Edwardian mansion block located in Berners Street in the City of Westminster. Berners Mansions was designed...

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Mortimer Street

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Street, Great Titchfield Street, Wells Street, Nassau Street, Berners Street, and Berners Mews. It contains a number of listed buildings: No. 10, Arts...

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Eastcastle Street

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crossed by Berners Street and Wells Street. Winsley Street runs from its south side. Berners Mews joins it on the north side and Berners Place on the...

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Whitechapel murders

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about 1 am in Dutfield's Yard, inside the gateway of 40 Berner Street (since renamed Henriques Street), Whitechapel. She was lying in a pool of blood with...

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Berners Hotel

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boutique hotel, formerly known as the Berners Hotel, located in Berners Street in the City of Westminster, London. The Berners Hotel was built in 1908–10, designed...

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List of practical joke topics

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Alhokm Baad Almozawla April Fools' Day List of April Fools' Day jokes Berners Street hoax Bingo Shooting Device Black fax Caltech–MIT rivalry Candid Camera...

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Samuel Beazley

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non-fictional works on architecture. He was also a participant in the Berners Street hoax. Beazley was born in Westminster, the son of Samuel Beazley, and...

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Jack the Ripper

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discovered at approximately 1 a.m. in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (now Henriques Street) in Whitechapel. The cause of death was a single clear-cut...

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Sanderson Hotel

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5175°N 0.1371°W / 51.5175; -0.1371 The Sanderson Hotel is a hotel on Berners Street, London, built in 1958 as the new headquarters and showroom for Arthur...

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Elizabeth Stride

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Murders: Inquest on the Berner Street Victim". casebook.org. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 10 February 2020. "London Tragedies: Berner Street Inquest". casebook...

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Theodore Hook

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Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1809. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840;...

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Wise Music Group

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Wise Music Group is a global music publisher, with headquarters in Berners Street, London. In February 2020, Wise Music Group changed its name from The...

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Henry Bone

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at 15 Berners Street. In 1831 his eyesight failed, and after having lived successively at Spa Fields, 195 High Holborn, Little Russell Street, Hanover...

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Woolverstone Hall

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£14,000 by William Berners (died 1783). William Berners owned Berners Street in London, which became known later for the Berners Street Hoax. He erected...

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List of hoaxes

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Beringer's Lying Stones, carvings of fictitious animal fossils. The Berners Street hoax that occurred in Westminster, England in 1810. Franz Bibfeldt,...

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Stamford Raffles

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this ambition was never realised. They moved to a London address at Berners Street at the end of November 1824, just in time to have a war of words with...

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John Opie

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doing portraits of Coke's Whig friends. John and Amelia lived at 8 Berners Street, London where Opie had moved in 1791. This proved a happy marriage,...

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Royal Society of Medicine

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and Chirurgical Society of London, and in the same year moved to 53 Berners Street, where it remained until moving to 20 Hanover Square in 1890. By 1891...

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Goulston Street graffito

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14″W / 51.5165306°N 0.0750389°W / 51.5165306; -0.0750389 The Goulston Street graffito was a sentence written on a wall beside a clue in the 1888 Whitechapel...

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