8. PALL MALL AND ST. JAMES'S.
STATIONS: Dover Street and Piccadilly Circus, on the Piccadilly Tube; Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, on the Bakerloo Tube. OMNIBUSES in Piccadilly; in lower Regent St.
Bounded by St. James's Park on the south, Piccadilly on the north, the Haymarket on the east, and the Green Park on the west, lies the fashionable region known as St. James's, famous for its aristocratic residences and palatial clubs and the home of men of letters, wits, and men of fashion from the days of Charles II. downwards. Pall Mall, its chief thoroughfare, is reached from Trafalgar Square either via Cockspur St., running to the north-west from Charing Cross, or via Pall Mall East, which leads due west from the National Gallery. Where these two routes converge is a bronze equestrian statue of George III. ('a good horse, ridden by a horseman'), by M. C. Wyatt (1836).
In Suffolk St., which opens off Pall Mall East, is the United University Club. At No. 23, Richard Cobden died in 1865. Earlier residents in the street were Mary Davies, the actress, before she migrated to St. James's Square, and Swift, who in 1711 occupied lodgings here near the Van Homrighs.
From the east end of Pall Mall the HAYMARKET, once what its name suggests, runs north to Piccadilly Circus. The imposing pile at the south-west corner of the Haymarket, formed by the Carlion Hotel and His Majesty's Theatre, covers the site of Her Majesty's Opera House (pulled down in 1893), whose name still lingers in the Royal Opera Arcade, on the west side of this block. At the corner of Charles St. is a memorial tablet to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (died 1917). Facing His Majesty's Theatre is the Haymarket Theatre, built in 1820 on a site devoted to a similar purpose since 1721. Henry Fielding, Samuel Foote, the elder Colman, and (in later times) the Bancrofts, have been among the tenants of the Haymarket, which was originally a summer-theatre. The quaint shop-front of No. 34 is one of the interesting survivals of old London. Addison wrote his 'Campaign' in an attic-lodging in the Haymarket; and here George Morland (1763-1804) was born. In Panton St., diverging to the east, is the Comedy Theatre.
