• Walk around the corner to the left into Dartmouth Street and view Jeremy Bentham’s green plaque…

 

Jeremy Bentham was a great English philosopher and social reformer who is regarded as the founder of modern of utilitarianism - based on the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong". Throughout his life he supported individual and economic freedoms, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising of homosexual acts. He called for the abolition of slavery and the death penalty, and also of physical punishment of children. He has also become known as an early advocate of animal rights.   ///wage.taxi.drips

 

• Walk to the bottom of Dartmouth Street, then cross the road, veering to the right into Broadway…

 

• Pause briefly to look inside the St Jame’s Park underground station…

 

This famous station was rebuilt again between 1927 and 1929 as part of the construction of 55 Broadway , (shown above), the London Transport headquarters building designed by Charles Holden  and featuring statues and carved stone panels by Sir Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, and Henry Moore.   ///violin.dating.oils

 

• Continue along Broadway into Petit France until you reach the junction with Buckingham Gate…

 

• You will pass the rear entrance of Wellington Barracks...

 

Note the stone military insignia set into the wall on your right. Behind this entrance is the Royal Military Chapel, known as the Guards Chapel. It is the religious home of the Household Division. Built in 1838, the chapel was bombed during the Blitz in 1940/1941 and in 1944 many soldiers and their families were killed here by a V1 rocket.  The chapel was rebuilt in a modern style in the 1960s.  ///going.vine.estate