Marylebone has a healthy mix of residential and commercial buildings with frontages that haven’t made a real jump forward since they were built. It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to be transported back to times under the awnings of ironmongers long since passed

Opposite the old firehouse on Chiltern Street. A really calm place to sit and watch the world go by, it belies its location in one of the world’s busiest cities

Alfies Antiques in Marylebone is such a distinctive building. It stands out as an Egyptian monument housing so many distinctly British artefacts. While life in the city moves on apace, Marylebone seems to exist within its own time. Not to be hurried along or left behind

The mews of Marylebone feel so typically west London. Small quiet thoroughfares that have seen so many carriages coming and going. Their cobbled streets leading to rear entrances of properties that must hold so many stories