#aroundhydepark

EIGHTEEN CENTUARY FACADES

South Carrige Drive, Hyde Park

London nov 2020 “The creation of the South Carriage Drive in the 1730s to replace Rotten Row as the royal road through the park coincided with extensive building along the north side of Knightsbridge, where a long terrace of houses was built in High Row, on the site of present-day Bowater House. “

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp1-18

“ Constructed in 1736 as the King's New Road, by 1827 the South Carriage Drive, along with Outer Ring, the East, North, and West Carriage Drives, the Serpentine Road, and the construction of the Serpentine Bridge, provided a circuit of the park. “