Bond St.
Known as Old Bond St. to the south and New Bond St. to the north. The older section (pictured above) was developed from a swamp in the 1680s, but “by the early eighteenth century it had become a place where rich young men, ‘Bond St. Loungers,’ paraded in the fashionable clothes of the day” (Glinert 173). While the old section became famous for its fashion and fine art, the new section, built around 1720, was “dominated by tradespeople selling household goods.” By the nineteenth century, however, New Bond St. was also a fashionable shopping district, home to Sotheby’s auction house, Cartier jewelers, and Benson and Hedges tobacconist (Glinert 171).
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