Talk:Fitzrovia

message: I'm not convinced it is named after the Fitzroy Tavern - presumably the tavern is named after the family and the district likewise. Wincoote 14:15, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely without reference, and using my poor mind's remembrance.
#I remember the area to become Fitzrovia in the 70s with the formation of the Fitzrovia association. Before that I don't think it had a particular identity, although it may well have had a prior one that came to be resurrected.
#It's as likely that the area is named after the pub, and the pub is named after Henry Fitzroy ....., etc
Kbthompson 18:10, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins of name

message: "There have been repeated failed attempts to rename the area in the New York fashion, Noho (north of Soho)."  
That's pretty interesting - but when, and by whom?  There is certainly a Japanese restaurant called "Soho Japan in Noho". Lfh 12:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noho 

message: The geographic boundaries of Fitzrovia are often incorrectly recorded (including in the Wikipedia entry). Often the area east of Tottenham Court Road is not included (the Gower Peninsular as some locals call it). Many estate agents do not include the Gower Peninsular when they should do.  Although the south eastern area around Bedford Square was not usually included. The western boundary is usually felt to be Great Portland Street. Fitzrovia News, the community newspaper, was for many years distributed as far west as Great Portland Street and as far east as Gower Street but with the exception of streets east of Tottenham Court Road south of Store Street. I would call this the "minimum boundary". The south eastern area is in the Bedford Estate and so had a different historical development. 
However, recently Fitzrovia News has also been distributed in and around Bedford Square. 
There are two references I can cite for the boundaries. The first is Bailey, Nick. (1981) Fitzrovia. Historical Publications, Camden History Society. Bailey's book gives the boundaries as Great Portland Street in the west and Gower Street in the east and excludes the Bedford Square area (page 10). The second source of note is Pentelow, Mike and Rowe, Marsha (2001) Characters of Fitzrovia. Pimlico. Here the authors include the area between Great Portland Street and Portland Place -- the Portland Peninsular, if you like. Portland Place was actually constructed as a boundary (though for different reasons to my discussion here). Mike Pentelow wrote the following in an email to me:
Page 14 of "Characters of Fitzrovia" states John Nash said Portland Place (completed in 1820) was meant to be "a boundary and complete separation between the streets and squares occupied by the nobility and gentry, and the narrow streets and meaner houses occupied by merchants and the trading part of the community." The source is given as John Nash quoted in "Georgian London" by John Summerson. I also got the same quote from page 108 of "Judith Summers, Soho, A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood" published by Bloomsbury in 1989. -- email Monday, 8 December, 2008 9:10 PM
So we could now describe a "maximum boundary" which in the west, and running north-south, would be: Park Crescent, Portland Place, Langham Place and Regent Street; and the east would include the area around Bedford Square. --Thegiantrodent (talk) 12:05, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic area 

message: The London Encyclopaedia () describes Fitzrovia as "[The] area stretching north from Oxford Street to Euston Road and bounded on the east by Gower Street and on the west by Great Portland Street." I've added this as a citation for the current wording. Grim23★ 10:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The London Encyclopaedia 

message: Regarding the 1804 map, "north of Tootenham CR" should be corrected to "west of Tottenham CR" 200.72.68.146 (talk) 20:20, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bit of a mess here 

message: There's a lot of un-referenced stuff in the article. Historical development has no references, Business needs more references, and so does Arts and Education and research institutions. Some bold editing needed I think. Any views? --Thegiantrodent (talk) 19:32, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up needed 

message: There have been a number of recent edits by an anonymous user who removed the reference to neighbourhood stats. I reverted these as the user did not reference or follow wp policy and made some strange remark in the edit summary. More recently (talk) removed the stats saying "most of the stats are out of date". The reference to the stats are the latest available 2010. There is always a delay between info being collected, then analysed before being verified before publication. Hence they are not out of date. I am reverting back as the references are good and follow wp policy about "verifiable content". No offence I hope to (talk).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegiantrodent (talk • contribs) 10:44, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighbourhood Statistics 

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