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The claimed land
24. Villiers Street was built by Nicholas Bourbon in the 1670s on the site of York House. At the time, the Thames River was higher and the street ended where the water gate of the mansion used to sit. By the 1855, the construction of the Victoria Embankment claimed the land from the River and pushed the water back 50m from the end of the street. Rudyard Kipling, renowned English poet used to live at apartment 43 in the late 19th century and wrote about this street :
"From my desk I could look out of my window through the fanlight of Gatti’s Music-Hall entrance, across the street, almost on to its stage. The Charing Cross trains rumbled through my dreams on one side, the boom of the Strand on the other, while, before my windows, Father Thames under the Shot Tower walked up and down with his traffic."
It is now a busy street where thousands of pedestrians transit everyday from and to the tube station.
— at Embankment Station.
The claimed land
24. Villiers Street was built by Nicholas Bourbon in the 1670s on the site of York House. At the time, the Thames River was higher and the street ended where the water gate of the mansion used to sit. By the 1855, the construction of the Victoria Embankment claimed the land from the River and pushed the water back 50m from the end of the street. Rudyard Kipling, renowned English poet used to live at apartment 43 in the late 19th century and wrote about this street :
"From my desk I could look out of my window through the fanlight of Gatti’s Music-Hall entrance, across the street, almost on to its stage. The Charing Cross trains rumbled through my dreams on one side, the boom of the Strand on the other, while, before my windows, Father Thames under the Shot Tower walked up and down with his traffic."
It is now a busy street where thousands of pedestrians transit everyday from and to the tube station.
— at Embankment Station.