Mayfair
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Mayfair is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster. It is in Central London and part of the West End. It is between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane and one of the most expensive districts in the world.
The Biltmore Mayfair overlooking Grosvenor Square
Grosvenor Square is the centrepiece of Mayfair, and named after the family name of the Dukes of Westminster.
Statue of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square
Looking towards St George Hanover Square from St George Street, 1787
Eia
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Eia or Eye was an early Medieval manor in Westminster, Middlesex and is now a part of Central London. It was about one mile west of the Palace of Westminster/Whitehall, about 2 miles west-south-west of the walled City of London, and about half a mile north of the River Thames.
Part of the former manor of Eia, in Grosvenor Place, Belgravia; the grounds of Buckingham Palace are in the centre background.
Ebury Street, Belgravia. This part of the street has been renamed Mozart Terrace after the composer Wolfgang Mozart, who in 1764 stayed at the house to the left of the lamp post and composed his first symphony there.
Buckingham House, the core element of today's Buckingham Palace, was built in the 1700s by John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby to the design of William Winde.
Buckingham Palace, principal façade; it was originally built to the design of Edward Blore and completed in 1850. It acquired its present appearance (shown above) following a 1913 remodelling by Sir Aston Webb.