Gibbon's house

[thunderlizard]

Hi Gibbon,
Strolling around Marylebone I couldn't help noticing that you used to live at 7 Bentinck Street. Did you know that's just 2 doors down from where Kim Philby and Guy Burgess used to live (no blue plaque at no. 5 for them)?

But they are not the most ignominious lowlifes to inhabit the area, because REC have their offices on the corner with Welbeck Street.

 

[NickFitz]

Hi Gibbon,
Strolling around Marylebone I couldn't help noticing that you used to live at 7 Bentinck Street.

Why, so he did

 

[Gibbon]

Hi Gibbon,
Strolling around Marylebone I couldn't help noticing that you used to live at 7 Bentinck Street. Did you know that's just 2 doors down from where Kim Philby and Guy Burgess used to live (no blue plaque at no. 5 for them)?

But they are not the most ignominious lowlifes to inhabit the area, because REC have their offices on the corner with Welbeck Street.

If I lived there now then the tone would be even lower, hence why I'm now in Leeds.

Talking of Gibbon, Edward that is, I'm having trouble sourcing a complete version of his work in hardbacks for a reasonable price. I know some of the work is now viewed as invalid but I love his prose and it was this work that really got me into studying this area.

 

[thunderlizard]

Here's one coming up for sale next week:
GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition. London: John Murray, 1881. 8 vols, 8°. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt, morocco labels (light rubbing). Provenance: Arthur Wakefield Chapman (bookplate). (8)

Its former owners should have read it more thoroughly I think.

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

Hi Gibbon,
Strolling around Marylebone I couldn't help noticing that you used to live at 7 Bentinck Street. Did you know that's just 2 doors down from where Kim Philby and Guy Burgess used to live (no blue plaque at no. 5 for them)?

But they are not the most ignominious lowlifes to inhabit the area, because REC have their offices on the corner with Welbeck Street.

That whole area has a very dubious past going back centuries.

It has had many nefarious residents.