Lisson Property, History & Transport
The western half of St Marylebone was, in Saxon times, the Manor of Lileston. The name had been corrupted into Lisson by 1723 when the area began to be built over.
The area never had the social cachet of its neighbours, and when the Great Central Railway was driven through it in 1899 it took a turn for the worse.
hen Professor Higgins meets Eliza Doolittle in Shaw’s Pygmalion, he detects from her accent that she comes from Lisson Grove, and asks why she left. She replies “It wasn’t fit for a pig to live in.”
As a final blow, the northern part was flattened in the blitz and rebuilt in concrete.
Como resultado, la zona hoy en día tiene la mayor concentración de la autoridad local o ex-local de la autoridad de vivienda en el dominio de Sandford. Pero Lisson Grove puede estar en el camino - a algunos desarrollos cerrada de lujo se han construido recientemente y los bajos precios de la propiedad junto con buenas comunicaciones al West End y la ciudad han atraído el interés de los inversores.
