Weighhouse Street

I was walking down Weighhouse Street the night before last and was sad to see that its branch of United Dairies is closing down, a residue of the days when Mayfair was more obviously residential, still with corner shops:-

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Nearby is the grandest possible Electricity Substation hidden under a large raised terrace opposite the Beaumont Hotel.   I’ve often wondered about it.   At either end there is a neo-baroque pavilion designed by Stanley Peach, a Scottish architect who had trained as a doctor, spent time in the Rocky Mountains and later designed Centre Court at Wimbledon:-

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