St. James's
About St. James's
St James's is a district of Westminster, and a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End. The area was once part of the northwestern gardens and parks of St. James's Palace and much of it is still owned by the Crown Estate. During the Restoration in the 17th century, the area was developed as a residential location for the British aristocracy, and around the 19th century was the focus of the development of their gentlemen's clubs. Once part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields, much of it formed the parish of St James from 1685 to 1922. Since the Second World War the area has transitioned from residential to commercial use.
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The first bowler hats were sold at St James's Street at Locke and Co-Hatters, who've been going since basically the 17th century when they were founded. The shop is still there today, so you can still buy hats from them.
from No Such Thing As A Midsummer Night's Bream, 2022-11-25 at 00:08:07 · read transcript
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Just blown two agents cover right there. They did have a building in London which they ran for 66 years and never acknowledged until they just left. They left last year and it was apparently intentionally boring. It was designed to look just like a really drab office near St. James's Park, actually. It's where it is. Anyway, they moved out in 2019 and then they said, aha, with GCHQ all along.
308: No Such Thing As The Land Of Flying Sheep, 2020-02-14 · listen
Is it because they realised sooner that there wasn't nice Appley stuff down there than we did? Right. Deepest toll in Newcastle? It's... I'm not going to answer that, in fact. There is an official deepest toll in Newcastle. It is just outside St. James's Park, isn't it? In fact, it's just down there. It's just the other side of this. The science, science one? The one that's two. 2,000 metres. Yeah.
No Such Thing As I Love I Love Lucy, 2024-10-10 · listen
There's one theory, yeah. Also there's a big change because it used to be name days. I love this. Every day used to be, or every name, every common name would have a day. It's normally a saint's day. St. James's day or St. Anna's day. Still that in some countries. In Greece, for sure. My brother-in-law is Greek and he celebrates his name day. There you go.
575: No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 · listen
This is way before the first time we ever thought that they'd had proper contact, culturally. Wow. Yes, I've seen the terracotta warriors. Yeah. I saw them in London. Okay. They're just in St. James's Park. People used to throw things at them to knock them over. Oh, really? You went to where they actually are? I went to Xi'an in China. They're natural habitats. They're in these huge long, it's like a, it's much bigger than a football pitch.
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