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9 Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St W1. Map 12 E1. Tel 020
7258 8200. Box Office: Tel 020 7935
2141. 1 Bond St, Oxford Circus
7 0 See Entertainment p345.
∑ wigmore-hall.org.uk
This appealing little concert hall
for chamber music was designed
by T E Collcutt, architect of the
Savoy hotel, in 1900. At first it was
called Bechstein Hall because
it was attached to the Bechstein
piano showroom; the area used
to be the heart of London’s
piano trade. Opposite is the Art
Nouveau emporium built in
1907 as Debenham and Free­
body’s department store – now
Debenham’s is on Oxford Street.
The Mosque on the edge of Regent’s Park
family, it is a must for anyone w London
with even a passing interest in Central Mosque
the progress of European art up
to the late 19th century. The 146 Park Rd NW8. Map 3 B3. Tel 020
house itself is magnificent, with 7724 3363. 1 Marylebone, St John’s
dozens of rooms, including the Wood, Baker St. Open dawn–dusk
superb great gallery, rich with daily. 7 = Lectures. ∑ iccuk.org
period detail. Surrounded by trees on the
Among the 70 masterworks edge of Regent’s Park, this large,
are Frans Hals’s The Laughing golden­domed mosque was
Cavalier, Titian’s Perseus and designed by Sir Frederick
Andromeda and Rembrandt’s Gibberd and completed in 1978.
Titus. There are superb portraits Built to cater for the increasing
by Reynolds, Gains borough number of Muslim residents in
and Romney. Other highlights and visitors to London, the
include Sèvres porcelain mosque is capable of holding
and sculpture by Houdon and 1,800 worshippers. The main
Roubiliac. The fine European hall of worship is a plain square
and Oriental armour collection chamber with a domed roof
Late 18th-century Sèvres porcelain vase, is the second largest in the UK. and a magnificent carpet.
Wallace Collection Visitors must remove their shoes
0 Wallace q Sherlock Holmes before entering the mosque,
and women should remember
Collection Museum to cover their heads.
221b Baker St NW1. Map 3 C4. Tel 020
Hertford House, Manchester Sq W1. 7224 3688. 1 Baker St. Open
Map 12 D1. Tel 020 7563 9500. 9:30am–6pm daily. Closed 25 Dec.
1 Bond St, Baker St. Open & = ∑ sherlock-holmes.co.uk
10am–5pm daily. Closed 24–26 Dec.
Lectures. 7 9 8 0 = Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional
∑ wallacecollection.org
detective lived at 221b Baker
This is one of the world’s finest Street. This building, dating from
private collections of art. It has 1815, has been converted to
remained intact since it was resemble Holmes’s flat, and is
bequeathed to the government furnished exactly as described
in 1897 with the stipulation in the books. Visitors are greeted
that it should go on permanent by Holmes’s “housekeeper” and
public display with nothing shown to his recreated rooms
added or removed. The product on the first floor. The shop sells
of passionate collecting for four souvenirs including short stories
generations of the Hertford and deerstalker hats. Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes

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