Fitzrovia

lankeela | 19:43 Sat 02nd Sep 2023 | ChatterBank

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I was born in London and lived there till my mid twenties, worked in the West End and various places around there, but can honestly say I have never heard of Fitzrovia till today! And strangely, it has come up twice today in different settings. I had to look it up and was amazed I hadn't ever heard of it.

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Peter Pedant

where the less well heeled of Evelyn Waugh's Bright Young Things lived innit?

pastafreak

I've heard of it...quite a posh area if I'm not mistaken.

New Judge

There's a few things "Fitzroy" in the area - The Fitzroy Tavern and Fitzroy Square. I worked in central London for many years and it has always been known as such for so long as I can remember.

Peter Pedant

v exp rather than v v exp

1975 One of the other students shared her fathers flat in Hallam st - the rest of us were with the Krays Clapton and hackney

I remembered being threatened by one young lad with a broken bottle. I was so possed I cdnt run away

lankeela

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Fitzroy yes but Fitzrovia? Not ever heard of it.

New Judge

Then you might as well say "Belgrave" (as in the Square of that name) but not Belgravia (the area where the square is). There's also a Belgrave Tavern, but it's in Southsea (Hampshire) and there used to be one of the same name in Finchley. Surely you've heard of Belgravia?

-SharonA-

Yes just a stone's throw from Warren Street. I used to walk through Fitrovia to my job on Goodge Street.

-SharonA-

Also we got a cheap Indian lunch at the Indian YMCA.

Captain2

Sorry, definitely wrong thread. ^^

jno

it was coined to sound like the much posher Belgravia, as I recall. The area was once the estate of the Fitzroys - which was the name given to kings' illegitimate children (from "fils", son, and "roy", king).

It's not an officially named area, though, more of a joke, so not everyone will have heard of it.

calmck

Know it well. Trained at the Middlesex Hospital and nurses accommodation was in Fitzrovia

New Judge

//Also we got a cheap Indian lunch at the Indian YMCA.//

Now you're talking, Sharon !

lankeela

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I have heard of Belgravia, in fact one of my jobs was for a restaurant chain and they had a French restaurant there called Le Coq Hardi (which the staff referred to as 'The Tough Chicken'). Also I remember Upstairs Downstairs was set in Eaton Place.

jno