Lord North Street

Lord North Street is a short street of Georgian [Built 1722 "The Buildings of England, London, 6, Wesminster" Pevsner,N./Bradley,S. (2003, Uxbridge, Penguin) ISBN 0300095953] terraced housing running between Smith Square and Great Peter Street in Westminster, the political heartland of British government. As such they have always commanded high fees and featured in many dramatic storylines ["Lord North Street 1725-1996: a Westminster portrait" Smedley,B (1996 London Hyde Park Antiquarian) ISBN 0952970600] . Past residents include the socialite Sibyl Colefax [ [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/colefax/colefax.html Family Manuscripts] ] , founder of the Colefax and Fowler fabrics and wallpaper company [ ‘"Colefax , Sibyl Sophie Julia, Lady Colefax (1874–1950)"’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Davenport-Hines,R. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ISBN 019861411X] , and Harold Wilson, four times Prime minister who in November 1974 alleged that renegade MI5 operatives had broken into his home [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/essex/johns_journey_archive/johns_journey_14_11_74.shtml Details of “burglary”] ] . More recent residents include Jonathan Aitken [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/aitken/Story/0,,193340,00.html Prison contemporaries visit LNS] ] and Theresa Gorman [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990629/ai_n14226781 Multiple ownership in LNS] ] .

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