Harley Street : from early times to the present day / [Percy Flemming].
- Flemming, Percy, 1863-1941.
- Date:
- 1939
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Harley Street : from early times to the present day / [Percy Flemming]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![also St. Christopher Place, which leads to a slit-like passage, Gee Court, opening into Oxford Street. It will be noted that there is a well marked dip in Oxford Street at this point, which is the con¬ tinuation of the valley noted in Wigmore Street. [Across Oxford Street the line of the stream is indicated by South Molton Lane, Avery Row, South Bruton Mews, Hay Hill, Lansdowne Passage (now closed) to the dip in Piccadilly which marks the valley.] The village of Marylebone was well off for water. The Tyburn river was reinforced by some springs situated where the Welbeck Palace Hotel now stands, and anywhere in the area it would only be necessary to dig a well io to 15 feet deep in order to obtain an abundant supply of water. Remnants of those wells are occasionally found to-day in the course of de¬ molition and rebuilding of eighteenth-century Harley Street. This abundance of water is due to the fact that in the Harley Street area the stiff London clay which fills a large part of the London Basin is here covered over by water-holding gravel, which in remote times was brought down by the Thames. The recent (1938) excavations in the Harley Street area have revealed the extent and thickness of this stratum of gravel. The thickness was particularly well shown in Wigmore Street, where possibly the Thames gravel had been added to by gravel brought down from Hampstead by the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29977484_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
