View of 39 Dover Street, City of Westminster. Dover Street was built in 1642 and named after Henry Jermyn, Lord Dover, one of the partners in the consortium of developers. Constructed in the 1950s on the site of a building destroyed by bombing in World War II. The ground floor was a furriers, 'Renee' and it is now an art gallery. On the right of the building is a doorway with a sign for Air Canada. A car is parked outside. On the right, number 38 is a three-storey building with the ground-floor shop occupied by a 'Coiffeur’, previously ‘Alan McAfee' a bespoke shoemaker. In the early-nineteenth century Lord King lived here, writing a biography of his kinsman philosopher John Locke published in 1829. In 1915 the premises were the Dover Street Photographic Studios, one of the leading firms specialising in theatrical portraiture. On the left, number 40 is encased in scaffolding. An eighteenth-century terraced house with three storeys, basement and attic. Since 1896 the home of the Arts Club, a London private members' club founded in 1863 by, among others, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Lord Leighton in Dover Street, Mayfair. It remains a meeting place for men and women involved in the creative arts. Prior to 1895 it was the home of the Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, a British Canadian-born political hostess and campaigner for the education of women in England, and grandmother of philosopher Bertrand Russell.
