The Orange-Yellow Diamond

About this book

On the southern edge of the populous parish of Paddington, in a parallelogram bounded by Oxford and Cambridge Terrace on the south, Praed Street on the north, and by Edgware Road on the east and Spring Street on the west, lies an assemblage of mean streets, the drab dulness of which a remarkable contrast to the pretentious architectural grandeurs of Sussex Square and Lancaster Gate, close by.