Start a travel blog Login. Let's take a stroll along Curzon Street and explore its surroundings in Mayfair. For a long time, this was one of the most comfortable cinemas in London, but now, at last, many other cinemas are providing seating at least as comfortable as that in the Curzon.
The restaurant no longer exists, but the cinema is thriving. This essay explores some of the sights on Curzon Street, an interesting thoroughfare, which is, unusually, devoid of food shops e.
Curzon Street runs from Park Lane eastwards towards Fitzmaurice Place, which runs south from nearby Berkely Square of singing nightingale fame. The street has not always been known by its present name. In , the latter street did not exist, but where it is now, was part of the grounds of Lansdowne House.
At that time, only the southern side of Curzon Street had a few buildings along it. The northern side was devoid of buildings except for the boundary wall of the grounds of Chesterfield House see below. Sometime between and , the section of Curzon Street between the present Curzon Square and Park Lane was built on.
The northern end of Seamore Place was the western end of Curzon Street. And, this is how the road layout remained until after about It was the home of Alfred de Rothschild , the first Jewish person to be the Director of the Bank of England. The proceeds of the sales she made helped finance the excavations carried out by Lord Carnavon and Howard Carter in Egypt at which Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered.
