Bond Street

We visited New bond street on the 27.09.09.It was a very busy street on the day because the Roller skate festival was going on around central London .It was quite a surprise to see so many roller skates all at once,dressed in bring colours roller skating to loud music.We walked further up on bond street where all the shops where.All the shops where top designer and expensive.The window displayed the latest autumn collection which looked amazing.The street was very quite,almost empty.It looked like an exclusive street where all the rich and famous come to do their shopping.We spotted a little boutique called "Doly",We went in and discovered that it was a famous very expensive bridal shop.After talking to the shop assistance we discovered celebrity customers such as Katie Price are regulars.

History of New Bond Street



Bond Street takes its name from Sir Thomas Bond, the head of a syndicate of developers who purchased a Piccadilly mansion called Clarendon House from Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle in 1683 and proceeded to demolish the house and develop the area. They also built nearby Dover Street and Albemarle Street. At that time the house backed onto open fields and the development of the various estates in Mayfair was just getting underway. It moved predominantly from south to north, which accounts for the southern part of the street being "Old" Bond Street, and the Northern half being "New" Bond Street, the latter being added in a second phase as London continued to grow. John Rocque's map of London published in 1746 shows the whole length of Bond Street and all its side streets fully built up.

Shops in New Bond Street

# Next
# ROC
# Reiss
# Baroni
# Francesco Biasia
# (Dering Street)
# Leonidas
# Watches of Bond Street
# Basler
# vacant
# Boudi
# vacant
# TM Lewin
# Fobia
# vacant
# Oliver Sweeney
# Calvin Klein
# Pellini Uomo
# (Brook Street)
# Fenwick
# D & G
# Emporio Armani
# redevelopment
# redevelopment
# F Pinet
# (Maddox Street)
# Avi Rossini
# Wempe
# Mulberry Company
# Smythson of Bond Street
# Ermenegildo Zegna
# Other Criteria
# Sotheby's
# Richard Green
# Furla
# Anne Fontaine
# Halcyon
# Longchamp
# Jimmy Choo
# Lucie Campbell
# Russell & Bromley
# (Conduit Street)
# Burberry
# refurbishment Louis Vuitton
# (Clifford Street)
# Watches of Switzerland
# Patek Philippe
# Georg Jensen
# de Grisogone
# Adler
# Chopard
# Moira
# Longmire
# Breguet
# Van Cleef & Arpels
# vacant
# Graff
# Ralph Lauren
# (Burlington Gardens