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Two hundred years ago a huge plot of land was secured as an open park, by means of simply ploughing a deep ditch all around it.

In 1705, the churchwardens are first recorded as buying a plough to maintain the title of the parish, and it is they who first used the idea of enclosing portions of the land.

This is Vincent Square, a 13 acre not-quite-square plot of land that’s the private playing fields for the pupils of Westminster School, right in the heart of central London. Westminster School predates the Norman Conquest as a charity school, although records only go back as far as the 14th century, and today is one of the more exclusive private schools in the UK.

In 1808, the Dean (William Vincent) and Chapter took determined action to prove their ownership. In July 1808, a letter was written to the neighbouring parishes informing them of the Abbey’s intention to enclose the entirety of Tothill Field.

The headmaster has long been a prominent position in society, and in 1802, the noted schoolar and theologian, William Vincent took up the role. He was a vocal critic of republicanism and gave a number of notorious speeches which were often reprinted for wider distribution.

The famous ploughing of the deep ditches, which cost £3 to carry out, seems to have been more practical than anything else — to help drain the land, as it wasn’t until 1842 that iron railings were erected around the square.

The Builder magazine is reported to have written that in 1810 when the area was being developed, “Dr. Vincent had already inclosed a portion of the fields for the square which bears his name” – so quite when he did his deed is now unclear. And his motivation presumably predates the other developments.

Unfortunately for the Westminster School boys, he was also a strong beliver in corporal punishment and was well known for his bellow of Eloquere, puer, eloquere (Speak out boy!) on the classrooms.

In 1810, noting that the fields to the south of modern day Victoria Street, known as Tothill Fields were slowly being taken over by housing developments — the legend goes that he paid a farmer with a horse to plough a ditch around a large square in the marshland areas to secure it for the school before anyone else could claim it.

By 1828 the square is described as the Play Ground for the Weftminster Scholars. The Dean probably hired a farmer to plough a boundary around the Square, and that it was a carefully planned exercise with a lot of publicity, not just an uppity Dean nicking some land before the developers could get it.

Although the legend is often written in such a way as to imply that he basically nicked the land, that’s highly unlikely, as we will see.

Whatever the origins though, the land is still owned by the School, and still used by them.

Tracing the owners, the whole area was once part of the Manor of Westminster, owned in the early 1200s by John Mansell, counsellor to King Henry III. It seems to have been little looked after though, being rather marshy, and over the centuries used more for training militia, plague burials and public entertainments.

To mark the 200th anniversary of its legendary formation, the Vincent Square Residents’ Association were granted planning permission for a large terracotta plaque to be erected on a building overlooking the square.

The plaque itself was designed by Karen Newman, and is based on a painting by Willam Owen, Court painter to the Prince Regent, and a preparatory drawing.

Ownership may have passed to the Abbey at some point, as there are records showing that Churchwardens were covering the cost of maintaining the fields, such as in 1672 to repair a famous maze that stood in the area.

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VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST

Vita's first close friend was Rosamund Grosvenor. She was the daughter of Algernon Henry Grosvenor, and the granddaughter of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury. Vita met Rosamund at Miss Woolf's school in 1899, when Rosamund had been invited to cheer Vita up while her father was fighting in the Second Boer War. Rosamund and Vita later shared a governess for their morning lessons.

(known as "Vita") was born on the 9th March 1892 at Knole House near Sevenoaks, Kent, the only child of Victoria Sackville-West and Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville, who were cousins. Her mother was the natural (i.e. illegitimate) daughter of Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville and a Spanish dancer, Josefa de la Oliva (née Durán y Ortega), known as Pepita.

Christened Victoria Mary Sackville-West, the girl was known as "Vita " throughout her life to distinguish her from her mother.

Lady Sackville, Vita's mother, invited Rosamund to visit the family at their villa in Monte Carlo; Rosamund also stayed with Vita at Knole House, at Rue Lafitte, and at Sluie. Their secret relationship ended in 1913 when Vita married. Rosamund died in London in 1944 during a German V1 rocket raid.

In 1913, at age 21, Vita married the 27-year-old writer & politician Harold George Nicolson. The couple had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had same-sex relationships before and after marriage, as did some of the people in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists, with many of whom they had connections.

Sackville-West was more deeply involved with Violet Trefusis. They first met when Vita SackvilleWest was 12 and Violet was 10, and attended school together. The relationship began when they were both in their teens. Vita and Trefusis eloped several times. The affair ended badly. Both families were concerned that the women were creating scandal. Trefusis continued to pursue Sackville-West until Sackville-West's affairs with other women finally took their toll.

The couple had 2 children: Nigel who became an editor, politician, and writer, and Benedict, an art historian. In the 1930s, the family acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook, Kent. Sissinghurst had once been owned by Vita's ancestors, which gave it a dynastic attraction to her after the loss of Knole. In 1947 Sackville-West relinquished the property to the National Trust.

The two women made a bond to remain faithful to one another, and neither could engage in sexual relations with her own husband. Sackville-West ended the affair when she heard that Trefusis had been involved sexually with her own husband. They continued to have occasional liaisons for a number of years.

The couple lived for a number of years in Cihangir, a suburb of Constantinople (now Istanbul). They returned to England in 1914 and bought Long Barn in Kent, where they lived from 1915 to 1930. They employed the architect Edwin Lutyens to make many improvements to the house.

The affair for which Sackville-West is most remembered was with Virginia Woolf. Woolf was inspired by Vita to write one of her most famous novels, Orlando, featuring a protagonist who changes sex over the centuries.

Sackville-West was a writer and author of novels. The Edwardians and All Passion Spent are perhaps her best-known novels today.

Her science-fantasy Grand Canyon is a "cautionary tale " about a Nazi invasion of an unprepared United States.

One of Vita's male suitors was Henry Lascelles who would later marry the Princess Royal and become the 6th Earl of Harewood.

Vita Sackville-West also had a passionate affair between 1929 and 1931 with Hilda Matheson, head of the BBC Talks Department. In 1931, Sackville-West was in a ménage à trois with journalist Evelyn Irons.

In 1947 Sackville-West was made a Companion of Honour for her services to literature. The same year she began a weekly column in The Observer called "In your Garden ". In 1948 she became a founder member of the National Trust's garden committee.

She is less well known as a biographer. Sackville-West's long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927.

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Vita Sackville-West died at Sissinghurst on 2nd June 1962, aged 70. Sissinghurst Castle is now owned by the National Trust.

The plaque can be seen on Ebury Street, Belgravia.

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Sadly, about a third of the frieze is missing. In 2005, planning permission was granted to demolish the northern third of the building, which as mainly offices, and replace it with the current modern structure.

If you wander down a road off Victoria, you might spot a rather fine concrete frieze running along a 1960s building. This is a council owned flats that was erected in the mid-1960s on the site of a warehouse used by the Army and Navy department store on Victoria Street.

That’s not as heinous as it sounds, as this was a development of the 1960s, so the back of the demolished section was a car park, with a petrol station under the neighbouring flats. Sadly, the tall vertical fins for the staircase were also lost. It’s just a pity that the frontage wasn’t retained to help preserve the long brutal frontage as it was originally designed.

The sculptor turned out to be William Mitchell, who is rather overlooked these days, but as with most good concrete designs, making a bit of a come back at long last.

The council obviously disagreed, calling the long monolithic frontage “unexceptional“, for they are fools of the highest order.

KEEP THE OLD SCHOOL BUILDING AT ST JAMES THE LESS CHURCH AS AN EDUCATION CENTRE

According to an email to a friend of his, “This was the first integral piece of concrete art ever produced. It’s a ‘ring beam’ which linked all the columns and on which the remainder of the structure depended. I designed it, made the moulds and the builder poured the concrete.”

Local councillors stand with the community of St James the Less Church and support their plan to turn the old school building into an Education Centre for vulnerable young people.

The building is currently owned by the London Diocesan Board of Schools and the Church wants to buy it from them.

However, if they can’t find the money there is a risk the building will go in the market and be sold to developers. If the building was sold, it would also mean breaking up an important heritage site, the church, each of the school buildings and even the highly decorated railings are all listed Grade I.

Being a rather controversial design for the time, there were arguments with the architects and engineers, with the Arts Council,

and in the press, but when finished, was widely appreciated. When built, it had offices on the ground floor as well, so there wasn’t the somewhat garish retail signs along the front which while necessary for retail, really don’t enhance the decorative frieze above.

It’s of a style of the time which either repels or attracts in equal measure. I can’t say it’s something I would want, but I appreciate it enough to be glad there are people who would want it.

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The old school building at St James the Less, Pimlico has always been an educational facility and the London Diocesan Board of Schools is being urged to keep it so.

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BORIS THE BUILDER

Boris Johnson once described himself as ‘basically a Brexity Hezza ’. What he meant by that was that he and former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine shared a penchant for ‘grands projets ’.

The large space open air bus stops outside Victoria Station could become a pedestrian plaza, under plans put forward by the local business group.

The prime minister’s announcement that, despite ballooning costs, HS2 would go ahead underlined his fondness for giant infrastructure schemes. At the same time, he also gave the green light to Northern Powerhouse Rail and promised massive investment in the bus network and in cycle superhighways. As if these were not enough, there were also announcements about 5G roll-out, and plans for up to ten freeports.

The area outside Victoria station is fairly grim, with a shabby pavement space usually filled with smokers facing onto the bus waiting area. There’s a very cramped path to the west, and a new plaza space leading to Victoria, but with several roads to cross.

The Victoria BID has put forward a number of plans to improve the wider area, one of which would see buses banished from outside the railway station to a nearby main road, and the area they used to use turned into a large pedestrian space.

.Aside from his personal .predilection for such projects, .the stream of announcements .around HS2 also reflected the .hard-headed calculation by Tory strategists that the best way to signal to former Labour .voters in the North and the .Midlands that their Damascene .conversion would not go .unrewarded was to at least start to address the long-running imbalance between investment in London and the south east, and the rest of the country. In order to do so the government had to tear up long-standing Treasury rules on return on investment.

The report says that experience of the temporary redistribution of bus services from Terminus Place to on-street locations during the Victoria Station Upgrade works suggests that it should be feasible to permanently redistribute those services onto roads within the vicinity of the station.

Aside from the cynical political calculation of the announcements they were also designed to take advantage of the historically low rates of interest on offer to stable governments such as the UK’s.

An added bonus is the prospect of, over time, using infrastructure investment to help to address the issue of low productivity that has plagued the UK for many years.

Boris Johnson’ track record of delivering on giant infrastructure projects is patchy. He can certainly claim much of the credit for the effective delivery of the 2012 London Olympics, and Crossrail was on time and on budget under his watch when he was London Mayor.

However, the Garden Bridge scheme across the Thames was a costly fiasco, and during his time as Mayor he had vehemently opposed Heathrow expansion. Instead he championed ‘Boris Island ’, an airport in the Thames Estuary – a feasible but controversial project.

Apart from giving the area a cleaner appearance, it gives visitors a moment to pause and orient themselves without being buffeted around on the narrow pavement that station offers today.

But these past, present and future ‘grands projets’ – including talk of a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland – are like their progenitor; they are not just very big, they are very bold. The prime minister is proposing and championing them partly because of political and economic necessity, but also with an eye to his legacy.

Boris wants to go down in history not just as a winner, but as a builder.

Lionel Zetter is a writer and commentator lionel@zetterspolitical.com View my vlog at: https://youtu.be/P3s9k3PBkhc

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ST. JAMES'S PARK TUBE STATION

The station has been reconstructed twice. In the first decade of the 20th century the original DR station was reconstructed in conjunction with the building of Electric Railway House a headquarters building for the DR's owners the London Electric Railway. The station was then rebuilt again between 1927 and 1929 as part of the construction of 55 Broadway the company's new headquarters building designed

by Charles Holden and featuring statues and carved stone panels including ones by Sir Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, and Henry Moore.

is incorporated into 55 Broadway, the headquarters of London Underground Ltd and has entrances from Broadway, Petty France and Palmer Street. The station was opened on 24th December 1868 by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) when the company opened the first section of its line between South Kensington and Westminster stations. The DR connected to the Metropolitan Railway (MR, later the Metropolitan line) at South Kensington and, although the two companies were rivals, each company operated its trains over the other's tracks in a joint service known as the "Inner Circle ".

The platforms feature the green, blue, black and white tiling scheme first used for the reconstruction and extension to Morden of the City & South London Railway (now the Northern line) also designed by Holden and opened between 1924 and 1926.

On 1st February 1872, the DR opened a northbound branch from its station at Earl's Court to connect to the West London Extension Joint Railway (WLEJR, now the West London Line) which it

In 1949, the Metropolitan line operated Inner Circle route was given its own identity on the tube map as the Circle line.

The separate Palmer Street entrance and booking hall were rebuilt as part of a further redevelopment in the 1960s.

Over time, the station name has been spelt differently, illustrating changing practice in punctuation. Tube maps up to the early 1930s show the name as "St. James' Park ". From Harry Beck's first map in 1933 until the early 1950s the name was shown as "St. James Park ".

Since 1951 it has had the current name.

Originally installed in the late 1920s when the first version of the name was in use, the station name displayed in the platform roundels exhibit modification to account for this change. One of the roundels on the eastbound platform still reads "St. James' Park ", the rest have had new name plates affixed giving the current spelling and punctuation, "St. James's Park ".

connected to at Addison Road (now Kensington (Olympia)). From that date the "Outer Circle " service began running over the DR's tracks. The service was run by the North London Railway (NLR) from its terminus at Broad Street (now demolished) close to Liverpool Street station in the City of London via the North London Line to Willesden Junction, then the West London Line to Addison Road and the DR to Mansion House, the new eastern terminus of the DR.

From 1st August 1872, the "Middle Circle " service also began operations through St. James's Park running from Moorgate along the MR's tracks on the north side of the Inner Circle to Paddington then over the Hammersmith & City Railway (H&CR) track to Latimer Road then, via a now demolished link, to the West London Line to Addison Road and the DR to Mansion House. The service was operated jointly by the H&CR and the DR.

On 30th June 1900, the Middle Circle service was withdrawn between Earl's Court and Mansion House. On 31st December 1908 the Outer Circle service was also withdrawn.

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