INTERESTING DOORS WE SAW AROUND LONDON

White’s Club

Lock’s Hatters

Marlborough House gatehouse
Kenwood House
Lock’s Hatters, rear door 

Scotland Office (Dover House), Whitehall

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  3. Those are good doors! I was interested in the variety of colours, and I wonder whether they would always have been like that or whether they would originally have been more bland. I can't recall reading anything about door colours in the Regency, for example.

  4. You ain't seen nothing yet – these are just the London doors. Seems like we took an awful lot of pics of doors and windows. And cobwebs. And horses. Hardly any of people! I wonder whose hand this really is? Said it was made circa 1884 – Wellington died in 1852. His son, maybe? There are plaster casts of his hands, in Apsley House, but they were done when he was very old. And the sculptor, Boehm – Percy delivered the Waterloo Despatch to a house in St. James's Square, where Prinny was attending a party given by a Mrs. Boehm. There HAS to be a connection. Except this Mr. Boehm was a merchant who went bankrupt a few years later, with Mrs. Boehm living out her life in a grace and favour apt. at Hampton Court. I always wondered at who these people were, to have hosted the likes of Prinny, yet are never mentioned in contemporary works or any source I've ever come across. Helena, maybe you should do a post on this for us – and on whether or not there were colourful doors in Regency London!

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