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Charlotte Street was built in the mid 18th Century. At the end of the 18th
Century,
No 1 Charlotte Street was home to Peter Violet, a painter of miniatures who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1790 and 1819.
Opposite 1 Charlotte Street is 1 Percy
Street, now the Bam-Bou Restaurant. It was originally a restaurant and
hotel called the Tour Eiffel.
In 1914, Percy Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
formed the Vorticist movement here, launching their magazine 'Blast'.
The
Vorticists were an English avant-garde art movement sharing some of the
views of the cubists and futurists of France and Italy.
Wyndham Lewis lived at 4 Percy Street and, in the 1930's, at 31 Percy
Street. 28 Percy Street was the London base for
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant during the late 1950's.
The Wheatsheaf pub is in Rathbone Place and
it was here that Dylan Thomas was introduced to Caitlin MacNamara by Augustus John
in April 1936. They spent the following week together in Augustus John's
room at the Tour Eiffel.
The Fitzroy Tavern is on the corner of Charlotte Street and Windmill
Street. Regulars in the past included Augustus John, Dylan Thomas, Cyril
Connolly and George Orwell.
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