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Wyvern, Bray

The Ladbroke family made their fortune from banking. By the 1820s, they owned a sizeable chunk of London based around Notting Hill. Architect Thomas Allason was recruited to convert the area into a fashionable suburb. His pioneering concept was to place all houses around the edge of a garden square so that the owners had […]