Vine St £200....

....before you ask, this isn't a joke. This is the entire length of the street, a smoking alley for hotel and restaurant staff and rubbish bag deposit for those same establishments, yet this street is valued greater than Islington, Pall Mall, Whitehall, Bow St etc. If you are looking for an answer from me I don't have one but here is some Vine St history.

Vine Street was formerly best known for its police station, which came into existence with the creation of the Metro­politan Police in 1829 and remained until the opening of West End Central police station on Savile Row in 1940.

Shortly after this Vine Street's name was changed to Piccadilly Place. Owing to a shortage of space at West End Central, the old police station reopened in 1971 and Westminster council agreed to resurrect the street's original identity, so that the station could retain the Vine Street name (Piccadilly Place is now merely a narrow alley connecting Vine Street with Piccadilly). The police station has recently been replaced by a mixed- use development and the streetscape (or what there is of it) has been enhanced.

It was to Vine Street police station, said to have been the busiest in the world, that the Marquess of Queensberry was taken in March 1895 to be charged with criminal libel against Oscar Wilde, thus setting in train the series of events that eventually led to Wilde's imprisonment.

So maybe that enough but I am not sure, the only thing that i can think is that it made the board after the swapping of brown envelopes at a train station (probably Fenchurch St...can't explain that one either).

Lovely spring day in London today so I made the most of it sitting in the sun watching the world go by and taking pictures of it, hopefully there is much more to come.