10 Shouldham St 1967 - 1991
10 Shouldham St W1 (with the white balcony) My parents bought 10 Shouldham St as a London flat in 1967, when I began work at Millers and Piers was starting his doctors' training at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. The flat was bought from Anthony and Jane Whinney - Jane being the daughter of James Wright, then one of the senior partners of Millers, who my father had got to know through shooting . Anthony was with Linklaters, but had decided to give up soliciting and become a farmer in the West Country. The flat cost £7500 - quite a large sum in the days when a managing director's annual salary was £5000 and mine was £1005! The street was a quiet Georgian terrace just off Bryanston Square with the Seymour Baths, a public laundry and some police married quarters on one side. The location was ideal for commuting into the City and Whitechapel (from Edgeware Road tube station) and it had some interesting residents, a few of whom became friends - li...