Park Place
Names
- Park Place
Street/Area/District
- Park Place
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Park Place
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Park Place
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Park Place
Descriptions
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Park-Place, St. James's Street,—at 60, the second on the R. from 163, Piccadilly.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Park-Pl.—in St. James's-street, the second turning on the right hand from Piccadilly.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Park Place, St. James's Street. Built 1683.2 The north side is in the parish of St. George's, Hanover Square; the south in St. James's, Westminster. The Countess of Orrery was one of the first inhabitants. No. 9 was Sir William Musgrave's, the great print-collector. William Pitt retired to No. 12 in 1801. "Old Coke of Norfolk" at No. 14. The "Mother Needham" of the Harlot's Progress—the "Pious Needham" of the Dunciad3 lived in Park Place.
The noted Mother Needham, convicted (April 29, 1731) for keeping a disorderly house in Park Place, St. James's, was fined 1s., to stand twice in the Pillory, viz. once in St. James's Street over against the End of Park Place, and once in the New Palace Yard, Westminster, and to find sureties for her Good Behaviour for three years.—Fog's Weekly Journal, Saturday, May 1, 1731.
Yesterday [May 6, 1731] the noted Mother Needham stood in the Pillory in Park Place, near St. James's Street, and was roughly handled by the populace. She was so very ill that she lay along on her face, and so evaded the law which requires that her face should be exposed.—Grub Street Journal (Nichols's Hogarth, p. 190).
She died before she could be exposed the second time.
3 See Dunciad, B. i. 1. 324 and note.