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Early history and pall-mall field. Pall Mall was constructed in 1661, replacing an earlier highway slightly to the south that ran from the Haymarket (approximately where Warwick House Street is now) to the royal residence, St James's Palace.
History. Related to Italian trucco (also known as lawn billiards or trucks in English) and similar games, pall-mall is an early modern development from jeu de mail, a French form of ground billiards . The name comes from the Italian pallamaglio, which literally means ' ball mallet ', ultimately derived from Latin palla, meaning 'ball ...
Hace 3 días · The street now known as Pall Mall was laid out in its present position in 1661, on the site of the old pall mall alley (see page 24). It replaced the ancient highway which until then had led from Charing Cross to St. James's Palace along a line roughly parallel with, but south of, the present street (fig. 58).
Historia. Vista del palacio de St. James y la calle Pall Mall por Thomas Bowles, y publicado en 1763. Grabado de Charles Knight del edificio de la Galería Boydell Shakespeare, del arquitecto George Dance el Joven, en 1851, después de su compra por la Institución Británica.
Hace 5 días · Pall Mall is described by Strype, in his edition of Stow, as "a fine long street," adorned with gardens on the south side, many with raised mounds and fine views of the royal gardens and St. James's Park beyond; nevertheless, three centuries ago, the whole of the space between St. James's Palace and Charing Cross was only a tract of fields.
Hace 5 días · In 1740 Daniel Graham, described as 'His Majesty's Apothecary', (fn. 11) petitioned the Crown for an extension of his leasehold interest in three old houses on the north side of Pall Mall.
In the late 1600s, King Charles II played pall-mall in the area with his courtiers, which is why it was called a mall. In the 1700s it became a very fashionable park where elite Londoners strolled.
