Wednesday 30 May 2012

Nicholas Street Mews

Nicholas Street Mews were, as their name suggests, mews, or stables, at the back of Nicholas St, for the horses and carriages of the doctors and other professionals that lived on Nicholas St. Usually there would have been carriage houses below and living quarters above, but the name 'mews ' originally meant a place for keeping falcons and other birds for hunting - it comes from the mewing sound that they made. Here the original mews were demolished and this row of houses put in its' place.


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