Marylebone Town Hall

The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. It was based directly on the previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish vestry, and then became part of the County of London in 1889. It was that part of the current City of Westminster which is north of Oxford Street, and east of Maida Vale and Edgware Road. It included the areas Marylebone, Regent's Park, St John's Wood, and Lisson Grove, along with the western part of the district of Fitzrovia. In 1965 it was abolished and its former area was amalgamated with that of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster to form the City of Westminster.

Gloucester Place is a street in Marylebone in Central London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs north from Portman Square across the Marylebone Road eventually merging into Park Road. It is parallel to Baker Street to the east and forms part of the A41 road from nearby Marble Arch. The Portman Estate was developed into grids of streets for affluent residential housing from the mid-eighteenth century. Gloucester Place was named after the Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of George III. The street has largely kept its original Georgian character. For some of the route the street is paralleled by Gloucester Place Mews to the west. Once part of the mews stabling for the houses, it now consists of independent dwellings. The 1935 art deco Dorset House apartment block was completed in 1935 at the junction with Marylebone Road. On the opposite corner of the junction is the neo classical Marylebone Town Hall the side of which faces onto Gloucester Place. Notable historic residents have included Mary Anne Clarke the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York and the American General Benedict Arnold. Novelist Wilkie Collins lived at 65 Gloucester Place where a blue plaque commemorates him. Another blue plaque appears on Dorset House where Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film production company was headquartered during the 1940s.

The Office of the Arab League in London (or, formally, the League of Arab States) is the diplomatic mission of the Arab League in the United Kingdom.

Dorset House is an apartment block in Marylebone in the City of Westminster. It is a noted example of Art Deco architecture and has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since March 1998. Dorset House occupies an entire block and is listed at the addresses of 128-130 Gloucester Place, 148-168 Marylebone Road, 1-9 Glentworth Street and 31-37 Melcombe Street.It was designed by the architects T P Bennett and Son under the architect Joseph Emberton for the property developer Claude Leigh. It was completed in 1935. Dorset House features reliefs by the sculptor and designer Eric Gill.An English Heritage blue plaque for the filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was erected on Dorset House in 2014.

York Street is a street in Marylebone in Central London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs west from Baker Street in a straight line until it begins curving when it becomes Harcourt Street towards the Old Marylebone Road. It crosses a number of streets including Seymour Place, Upper Montagu Street and Gloucester Place. It was laid out in the eighteenth century as part of the grid-like pattern of the area, developed from the Portman Estate as affluent housing. It is named after Frederick, Duke of York, the son of George III and brother of George IV and William IV. A number of the buildings retain their original Georgian design. Amongst prominent residents of the street is the Victorian painter George Richmond and the writers Frances Milton Trollope and her sons Thomas and Anthony Trollope. The northern, rear side of the neoclassical St Mary's Church, designed by Robert Smirke and built from 1823 to 1824, faces onto York Street.

Marathon House is a landmark building completed in 1960 (then Castrol House), it exhibited the first use of an American-style fully-glazed curtain wall in England. It is 49.38m high and has 15 floors. The building was influenced by New York City's Lever House (1951-2).

Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London. All buildings fronting it are terraced houses and listed, in the mainstream (initial) category. It takes up the site of Lord's (MCC's) Old Cricket Ground, which lasted 23 years until the 1811 season. Internally it spans 100,000 square feet (9,290 m2).

Lord's Old Ground was a cricket venue in London that was established by Thomas Lord in 1787. It was used mainly by Marylebone Cricket Club for major matches until 1810, after which a dispute about rent caused Lord to relocate.

Crawford Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London. The street contains two grade II listed public houses.

The Embassy of El Salvador in London is the diplomatic mission of El Salvador in the United Kingdom.

The Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in London is the diplomatic mission of Kyrgyzstan in the United Kingdom. It lies on Crawford Street in Marylebone in the City of Westminster. The embassies of Angola, Sweden, and Switzerland are nearby.

The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault. The value of the property stolen is unknown, but is likely to have been between £1.25 and £3 million; only £231,000 was recovered by the police.The burglary was planned by Anthony Gavin, a career criminal, who was inspired by "The Red-Headed League", a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Sherlock Holmes waits in a bank vault to arrest a gang who have tunnelled in through the floor. Gavin and his colleagues rented Le Sac, a leather goods shop two doors from the bank, and tunnelled during weekends. The interior of the vault was mapped out by one gang member using an umbrella and the span of his arms to measure the dimensions and location of the furniture. The gang initially tried to use a jack to force a hole in the vault floor and when this failed they used a thermal lance. When this also failed to work, they used gelignite to blast a way through. Once inside, they emptied 268 safety deposit boxes. The gang had posted a lookout on a nearby roof, who was in contact via walkie-talkie, and their broadcasts were accidentally overheard by Robert Rowlands, an amateur radio enthusiast. He called the police, who initially did not take him seriously, so he used a small cassette recorder to make a recording of the burglars' conversations. The second time he contacted the police they accepted what he was saying, and began hunting for the burglars while the break-in was in progress. They searched 750 banks in an 8-mile (13 km) radius, but failed to locate the gang. Police found the members of the gang soon after the break-in; one of the burglars, Benjamin Wolfe, had signed the lease for Le Sac in his own name and informers provided information that led to Gavin. At the end of October 1971 police arrested Wolfe, Gavin, Reg Tucker and Thomas Stephens. They continued to search for other members of the gang, including one woman, for five years, but no further arrests were made. Gavin, Tucker and Stephens were sentenced to twelve years in prison; Wolfe received a sentence of eight years, less than the others as he was in his 60s. There have been several rumours connected with the burglary, including one that the government issued a D-Notice to censor the press; that one of the safety deposit boxes contained compromising photographs of Princess Margaret and the actor and criminal John Bindon; and that photographs of a Conservative cabinet minister abusing children were found. There is no evidence to support these claims and they have been widely dismissed. Some of the rumours inspired the story for the 2008 film The Bank Job. Many of the papers relating to the burglary remain under embargo at The National Archives until January 2071.