MAYFAIR WEST
This is my Monopoly Swan Song, Opus Magnus, what you will. I have to admit I’ve been dragging it out, like the last cigarette before facing the firing squad. Mayfair is an area bounded by four Monopoly properties - Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It also contains the whole of Bond Street and Vine Street. So, appropriately, my final offerings from the Monopoly board cherry-pick the bits I missed. There’s a lot to see in one visit, so I’ve divided my findings into two parts, west and east. There are maps at the end. Much of Mayfair is still owned by the Grosvenor family, their name derived from the French Gros Veneur (fat hunter). The average price for a house in Mayfair is around £9.5 million. 38 Hertford Street (2) In the 1950s the musician’s unions created ‘needle time’ which limited BBC radio to just 30 hours of recorded music per we...