#regent square

“Regent Square is anything but a high-class locality, being chiefly populated by grubby infants and ladies of doubtful calling, but its rents are comparatively cheap for so central a situation.”

–Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase, Chapter XXIX: The Evidence of the Mannequin.

Olga Kohn’s address is given as 159 Regent Square. The square is real, but the numbers stop at 26. Regent Square is a bare half-mile from Harriet’s lodgings in Doughty Street. The buildings around the square were constructed in the 1820s, and included the Church of St. Peter on the east side of the square and the Presbyterian Church to the south. Both churches and much of the square were destroyed during the Blitz. (x)

Image 1: 13 Regent Square, 1952. (x)

Image 2: Church of St. Peter, pre-Blitz. (x)

Image 3: The Presbyterian Church, pre-Blitz. (x)

Image 4: The surviving side of the original Regent Square. (x)