The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

1924Unpublished

This image of the Regency pagoda in Berkeley Square was probably taken for an article about London squares by the artist William Orpen published on May 17, 1924. Berkeley Square was enclosed in 1766–67 with ‘a grass plot... a gravel walk round, and iron pallisadoes’. Its oldest plane trees were planted in 1789 by Edward Bouverie.

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