Leica, Mayfair location?

[semi-ambivalent]

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Can someone here tell me roughly where the Leica, Mayfair store is in relation to some central London landmarks? The family is visiting London & Co. and I thought I'd drop in for a looksee. Is it walkable from, say, Westminster Abbey? (We've been given a hotel recommendation but can't recall the name right now. I am open to more suggestions.)

 

Looking forward to this trip,

s-a

[LocalHero1953]

It is just off Berkeley Square (where a nightingale sang) and the closest tube station is Green Park. Piccadilly Circus is not far away. The best known hotel nearby is the Ritz! From Westminster Abbey it is a 20-30 minute walk (at a guess - I've never done it) along Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall, Haymarket, Piccadilly, and then Berkeley Street and Berkeley Square to Bruton Place.

 

PS note that there are two Leica premises opposite each other: the showroom/shop, and the service centre.

Edited June 9, 2014 by LocalHero1953

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[pico]

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[semi-ambivalent]

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Looks like a rather low-rent neighborhood...

 

thanks!

s-a

[Berth]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Leica+Store+Mayfair/@51.510998,-0.145216,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1905264d1cd047a3

 

That's not far from Wallace Heaton's old digs on New Bond St.

[LocalHero1953]

Looks like a rather low-rent neighborhood...

 

thanks!

s-a

 

Well, Mayfair is the highest value property on the UK version of the Monopoly board

[Jennifer]

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Looks like a rather low-rent neighborhood...

 

thanks!

s-a

 

Not forgetting that the shop is located in a 'mews' where they formerly stabled the horses and housed the servants.

[gyoung]

It is just off Berkeley Square (where a nightingale sang) and the closest tube station is Green Park. Piccadilly Circus is not far away. The best known hotel nearby is the Ritz! From Westminster Abbey it is a 20-30 minute walk (at a guess - I've never done it) along Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall, Haymarket, Piccadilly, and then Berkeley Street and Berkeley Square to Bruton Place.

 

PS note that there are two Leica premises opposite each other: the showroom/shop, and the service centre.

 

If you do that walk you wont be far from Richard Caplan, IMHO a very imteresting shop to visit, not only new leica but loads of interesting older stuff.

 

Gerry

[LocalHero1953]

Indeed, just continue along Pall Mall instead of going up Haymarket. Caplan's is just before you get to St James Street. Then go up St James Street (stopping off for a tasting at Berry Bros & Rudd, classy wine merchant) to Piccadilly again: left then right up Berkeley Street. St James doesn't figure on the Monopoly board, but it's probably worth more than Mayfair!