Maddox Street
{{Short description|Street in Mayfair, London}}
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Maddox Street is a street in the Mayfair area of London, extending from Regent Street to St George's, Hanover Square.
History
Maddox Street was completed in 1720.{{cite web|first=Edward|last= Walford|title='Hanover Square and neighbourhood', in Old and New London: Volume 4 |publisher=London|year= 1878|pages= 314–326|url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4/pp314-326 |accessdate=4 May 2015}} It was named after Sir Benjamin Maddox who owned the Millfield estate on which the street was built.{{cite web|url=http://www.hotel-assist.com/hotels-near-maddox-street-london.html|title=London hotel near to Maddox Street|publisher=Hotel Assist|accessdate=4 May 2015}} The Mason's Arms, located at 38 Maddox Street, was built in 1721 and rebuilt in its current form in 1934.{{cite web|url=http://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/StGeorgeHanoverSquare/MasonsArms.shtml|title=Masons Arms, 38 Maddox Street, St George Hanover Square|publisher=Pub history|accessdate=3 May 2015}}
Dickenson's Drawing Gallery, whose teachers included John Mogford and whose students included Emily Mary Osborn, was established at 18 Maddox Street in the early 19th century:{{cite web|url=http://www.heatherleys.org/history.php|title=A brief history|publisher=The Heatherley School of Fine Art|accessdate=3 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208161927/http://www.heatherleys.org/history.php|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}} the premises are now known as ArtSpace Galleries.{{cite web|url=http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1082/63330.php|title=ArtSpace Galleries|publisher=All in London|accessdate=3 May 2015}} Nearby, Maddox Gallery is based at 9 Maddox Street, one of several art galleries on this road.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/maddox-gallery/contact|title=Maddox Gallery {{!}} Contact Information {{!}} Artsy|website=www.artsy.net|access-date=2017-03-30}} A Museum of Building Appliances, established in the street in 1866, no longer exists.
Famous residents have included Samuel Whitbread, the Member of Parliament and brewer, who lived at 33 Maddox Street in the late 19th century,{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/whitbread-samuel-1796-1879|title=Samuel Charles Whitbread|publisher=History of Parliament|accessdate=3 May 2015}} Harry Wooldridge, the English musical antiquary, who lived with Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, at 50 Maddox Street in the 1890sThe Presbyterian Hymnal Companion by Linda Jo McKim and Edward Gathorne-Hardy, the British Bohemian socialite, who lived at 39 Maddox Street in the 1930s.{{London Gazette|issue=33991|page=7089|date=31 October 1933}}
Alligator Rainwear, a subsidiary of the London Waterproof Company founded by Reuben Satinoff after the First World War, had its trading office on Maddox Street.{{cite web |title=In the beginning…… |url=https://www.bakerstbrands.co.uk/portfolio-items/alligator/ |website=bakerstbrands |accessdate=26 December 2020}}
Wilkinson & Son, tailors and robemakers to the King, were based at 34 Maddox Street in the 1920s.{{cite book|title=Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II|first= Philip |last=Mansel|authorlink=Phillip Mansel|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2005|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QCIxgIZ4w38C&dq=wilkinson+%26+sons+robemakers+34+maddox+street&pg=PA139 139]|isbn=978-0300106978}}
The Rolling Stones operated from offices at 46A Maddox Street{{cite web|url=http://www.notableabodes.com/person-abode-details/5316/rolling-stones-music_46a-maddox-street-westminster-london|title=46A Maddox Street|publisher=Notable abodes|accessdate=3 May 2015}} and Chappell Recording Studios, where the Beatles held recording sessions in the 1960s, was also located at 52 Maddox Street.{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/label/264595-Chappell-Recording-Studios|title=Chappell Recording Studios|website=Discogs|accessdate=3 May 2015}}
Hibiscus, a London restaurant owned and run by French chef Claude Bosi, was located at 29 Maddox Street until it closed in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/nov/25/foodanddrink.shopping|title=Jay Rayner reviews Hibiscus|work=The Guardian|date=25 November 2007|accessdate=4 May 2015}} Meanwhile, the imposing building known as 47 Maddox Street, which was designed by Walter Williams for Messrs Lawrence – a firm of tailors which was later known as Walter Williams – was completed in 1892 and is now occupied by Brown's Restaurant.{{cite web|url=http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/mayfair/|title=Mayfair, Westminster|publisher=Hidden London|accessdate=3 May 2015}}
The fictitious female occult detective and palmist Miss Diana Marburg, created by L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace in 1902, lived in Maddox Street and was indeed known as "The Oracle of Maddox Street".{{Cite book|last=Illes|first=Judika|title=The Wesier Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing|publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser|year=2017|isbn=978-1476678009|location=|pages=113–14}}
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