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Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a residential district that combines a continuity of tone with touches of the unexpected.
Bloomsbury has been compared to Paris' Left Bank. For centuries it has been populated by writers, artists, publishers, philosophers, students - the creative questioners of conformity whom the French idolise and who make the British feel uncomfortable. Like Paris, Bloomsbury has wide boulevards of tall trees and taller buildings petering out into maze-like lanes of antique book and map shops, galleries, small hotels and innumerable cafés serving espressos, cappuccinos and fresh juice.
As a glance at its street names shows, Bloomsbury owes its existence to the Southampton and Bedford families who developed the area as one of London's first planned suburbs. Hurford Salvi Carr are the retained letting agents for The Bedford Estates.
The impressive bulk of the British Museum, and the famous literary clique, which gathered in Bloomsbury's Georgian houses at the turn of the century, set the tone of the area. Its residents are in many ways an extension of the Bloomsbury Group - writers, publishers, architects, creative people and academics who delight in walking to restaurants, art galleries, West End theatres and Covent Garden.
Bloomsbury has remained largely unchanged since the early 1940's when parts of the area were severely bomb damaged. It is dominated by large institutions including the University of London, several hospitals, publishing houses and barristers' chambers.
During the late 1980's and early 1990's Bloomsbury began to regain a reputation as a central residential district of some repute as the centre of gravity in London shifted east. At the beginning of the new century, new media, international hotel groups and Warner Bros have moved into the area around Holborn.
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