Wigmore Street is a street in theCity of Westminster, in theWest End of London. The street runs for about 600 yards parallel and to the north ofOxford Street betweenPortman Square to the west andCavendish Square to the east. It is named after the village ofWigmore and itscastle inHerefordshire, a seat of the family ofRobert Harley,politician around the time ofQueen Anne, who owned land in the area.
Numbers 18-22 Wigmore Street, the Brinsmead Galleries, were built in 1892, designed by Leonard V. Hunt forJohn Brinsmead & Sons piano manufacturers. There are nine showrooms.[1][2] The well-knownWigmore Hall concert hall (at No 36 Wigmore Street) was also built by a piano manufacturers, the German companyC. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik in 1899–1901, with a showroom next door. It is located on the north side, just to the east of the junction withWelbeck Street.
For about a hundred years beginning in the late 19th century, Wigmore Street had a great concentration of optometrists, dispensing opticians, makers of ophthalmic instruments, and related professions.[3]Harley Street andWimpole Street, famous for their private medical practices, are nearby and have junctions with Wigmore Street. The veteran pharmacyJohn Bell & Croyden has been located in premises on the street since 1912.
Number 95 Wigmore Street was the location of the original offices of theBeatles'Apple Corps in 1968 prior to their move toSavile Row.[4]
The nearesttube stations are on Oxford Street, which runs south of and parallel to Wigmore Street:Marble Arch, located to the south-west;Bond Street to the south, andOxford Circus to the south-east.
The corner of Wimpole and Wigmore Streets features in the famous legal case about causing a "nuisance" between neighbours –Sturges v. Bridgman (1879).
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