Court on Camera

A lovely sunny day, but I'm back at work & my lunchtime blip-walk only got me as far as the end of the street.
This is Chiltern Court, above Baker Street tube station. It was opened in 1929 as offices for the Metropolitan railway & luxury flats. The lure of 40 lifts, postal chutes on each floor, hot water radiator heating & "automatic" telephones was too much for H.G. Wells, who lived in Flat 47 from 1930-36, & Arnold Bennett, who died here in 1931.
Sir John Betjemen began his "Metro-land" journey in the swanky restaurant in 1973. Today it is a somewhat less swanky Wetherspoons pub, but the price of a meal remains roughly the same!