"This is a Fitzrovia alley with a misleading name, as anything called a Mews is usually an old passage behind old houses, lined with former horse stables - and Clipstone Mews is none of that. It was first laid out in the late 1700s as a residential street, later named Upper Charlton Street, and was lined on both sides with modestly decent housing and back gardens."
"On the western side, a large block of housing was constructed, looking candidly not unlike a converted office block, but it's always been residential. The eastern side was architecturally much more interesting. A low triangular plot of land, it was developed as a low-lying row of shops with a single floor of flats above. As a low lying white concrete building it was basic, but very much of its era."
"This entire block was demolished in 2020 and has since been replaced with a modern development of three towers above a podium block. At the northern end of the development is a new curved corner building with a sculpture of the BT Tower and the text in reference to the era in which the BT Tower was constructed, quoting the words of Harold Wilson in 1963, when he referred to the "white heat of the technological revolution" in a speech"
Clipstone Mews began as an 18th-century residential street named Upper Charlton Street, lined with modest housing and back gardens. By the 1880s the street registered as predominantly lower working class on Charles Booth's maps. In the late 1960s the original houses were demolished for the Frederick McManus & Partners Holcroft Court Estate, featuring a large western housing block and a low-lying eastern row of shops with flats, both above a shared underground car park. The 1960s block was demolished in 2020 and replaced by a modern development of three towers and a podium, including a curved corner building bearing a BT Tower sculpture and a Harold Wilson quotation.
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