MARLBOROUGH STREET
Marlborough Street doesn’t exist. But it can safely be assumed that in 1935 the managing director of Waddingtons Victor Watson and his secretary Marjory Phillips had Great Marlborough Street in mind when designing the British version of Monopoly. The error is probably down to the fact the former courthouse in Great Marlborough Street was simply called Marlborough Street Magistrates Court. It’s now (another) hotel, The Courthouse .... Marlborough Street Magistrates Court, which closed in 1998, was the scene of many high-profile trials – (inevitably) Oscar Wilde, Christine Keeler, Boy George and, on separate occasions, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. John Lennon’s court case in 1970 regarding the display of sexually explicit photos of Yoko was thrown out on a technicality. So instead it’s Lancashire hotpot in the Argyll Arms, a definitive Victorian pub in Argyll Street with oo...