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Welcome to Lisson Grove. This is a guide to the Lisson Grove area.

Taken on a summer Sunday afternoon, looking East.
©David Hawgood
The gilt on the dome is beginning to become rather tarnished. Not sure if a muezzin calls from the minaret
©Jack Hill
This extraordinary sight currently greets anyone venturing along the northern stretch of Baker Street beyond Marylebone Road. This was part of Abbey National's old headquarters building which is being redeveloped into luxury flats. Westminster Council, however, insisted that the clock tower feature is retained, so the builders have just removed the building from underneath - one just hopes they know what they are doing! The clock is stopped at 12 o'clock.
©Stephen McKay
This Nash-designed fairy-tale house, one of three similar villas, is on the Outer Circle just north of the Central Mosque, amongst the most exclusive addresses in London. It is protected by high walls and sturdy gates. The Regent's Canal runs at the back of the house.
©Stephen McKay
A characterful Georgian pub on Park Road just west of Regent's Park.
©Stephen McKay
The first villa built in Regent's Park, designed in 1818 by Decimus Burton as home for his father John Burton, a builder who supported Nash in developing the park. It is a private residence; a property website http://www.britain.tv/property_top_100homes_5.shtml suggests it is worth £100 million. View across the boating lake, with one intrepid family out on a cold but bright Sunday morning.
©David Hawgood
This heron was on the bank of the boating lake, just a few yards from the footpath and people strolling on Sunday morning.
©David Hawgood
This attractive square, between Gloucester Place and Marylebone Station, was the site of the original Lord's cricket ground, established here in 1787 by Thomas Lord. The cricket later moved out to its present home in St John's Wood, but the Marylebone connection is remembered in the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club)name. The square is named after the Duke of Dorset, a patron of cricket.
©Stephen McKay
Marylebone is one of London's smaller railway termini, but it nevertheless has a great deal of character. It was originally the terminus of the Great Central Railway which ran trains from Yorkshire and the East Midlands; today trains run from here to the Chilterns and beyond to Birmingham.
©Stephen McKay
Looking along the railway from Rossmore Road bridge out towards Aylesbury and High Wycombe. In the 1980s there was a proposal to convert this line into a dedicated coach route, with Marylebone becoming a central London coach station. Trains would have been diverted to Paddington. Fortunately, the folly of this idea was recognised in time and the route is now busier than ever.
©Stephen McKay
This is effectively a one-sided street; the right hand side is bounded by a wall along the side of Marylebone station.
©Stephen McKay
A Metropolitan Line train pulls into Baker Street Station behind an unused old lamp post
©Oxyman
©John Allen
©John Allen
A typical London street market. This market specialises in fruit and veg from Monday - Thursday but expands to offer a wider range of products on Fridays and Saturdays.
©Stephen McKay

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