Park Lane and Park Street discoveries

This is about when you are looking for one thing and you happen upon other delightful stuff along the way.

Wandering the streets of Mayfair, planning a route for an Art Deco tour I was in Park Street musing that the houses along here would have followed the edge of the park, hence the name. As I reached the impressive wazzbaffle at the corner of Culross Street I realised that, even though I had written about this building on my Substack here I hadn't at that time noticed these large metal gate posts:

Probably because this was something I only became aware of months later after noticing a lonely post in Notting Hill and then other similar examples near Regents Park here. 

I wandered down Culross Street for a detour to admire the Georgian houses that face Hyde Park just north of Grosvenor House, Hotel and Ballroom:

I noticed some bollards in front of the houses. On closer inspection saw that they bear the name of Sugg, a company that features on my gaslamps walks being as Thomas Sugg create some of the first lanterns for the first gas-lit streets c1807, though he and others would have been making lanterns before that, just not for gas-powered lighting.

I've not seen bollards with the Sugg name on before, though there must be many. This is probably because these bollards at first glance don't look that interesting – they don't appear to be repurposed cannons and there's no date at high level, as per the ones in my last post about Chelsea.

As if this and the filigree gateposts wasn't exciting enough, as I walked across the cobbles I spotted a cover plate, approx the size of a coal hole cover but I cant conclude that was indeed its purpose, set right in the middle in front of 97... and it is mostly still infilled with woodblocks. 

Nice!

See the A-Z of Woodblocks here and let me know if you can add to it.