Article by Stuart Mitchell
En kort historie om Harley Street Harley Street London
Harley Street er en av flere London Streets som er uløselig knyttet til en viss handel. Saville Row er verdenskjent for sine mange skreddersydde skreddere, Fleet Street med avisproduksjon, Denmark Street med låtskrivere og musikkbutikker. Harley Streets nisje er den medisinske profesjonen. I motsetning til Saville Row som har sett en økende nedgang i antall skredderbutikker og Fleet Street som ikke lenger produserer aviser, Harley Street fortsetter å blomstre som et senter for alt medisinsk og medisinsk.
Historien til Harley Street begynner egentlig tidlig på 1700-tallet da landet mellom Oxford Street og Marylebone Road ble utviklet i datidens storslåtte georgianske stil. Arkitekt John Prince støttet med kapital fra Edward Harley (2jarl av Oxford) skapt en overflod av svært sortert eiendom med sentrum på Cavendish Square. På 1790-tallet var området svært fasjonabelt og tegnet inn en rekke velstående og kjente innbyggere. Gladstone bodde kl 73 Harley Street, William Turner bodde på en rekke adresser først kl 35 Harley Street og senere kl 46 og deretter kl 23 Queen Street, hvor han bygde et galleri.
Tilstrømningen av medisinsk fagpersonell begynte rundt midten av det 19. århundre. Gaten var godt plassert for jernbaneforbindelser mot nord og en tilførsel av rike kunder på dørtrinnet. Åpningen av Medical Society of London i Chandos Street i 1873 og deretter Royal Society of Medicine i Wimpole Street i 1912 ytterligere forbedret områdets rykte for medisinsk behandling.
Registreringer viser at i 1860 det var rundt 20 leger i Harley Street, dette hadde steget til 80 av 1900 og nesten 200 av 1914. Med etableringen av NHS i 1948 det var rundt 1,500 leger som praktiserer i området. Det er anslått at noen 3,000 folk er ansatt i medisinsk profesjon i en rundt Harley Street. Det ser ut som om gaten fortsetter med sin edle handel i noen år ennå.
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A History of Harley Street
Harley Street is often referred to as “Medical London” due to the fact it has one of the largest concentrations of medical proficiency in the world. With a long-standing reputation as a centre of private medical excellence, Harley Street’s earliest associations with medicine can be traced back to around 1860 when many doctors moved into the area due to the central location and close proximity to major train stations, such as Kings Cross, St Pancras and Marylebone. Since the nineteenth century the number of doctors, sykehus, eye surgery clinics and other medical organisations located in and around the Harley Street area has greatly increased. There were around 20 doctors practising in the area in 1860 and a tenfold increase was recorded by 1914 when the figure rose to 200. Another two welcome additions to the area which further enhanced the area’s reputation were the Medical Society of London, which opened in Chandos Street in 1873 and the Royal Society of Medicine which started up in 1912 on Wimpole Street.Over the years Harley Street has been home to many famous medical professionals. Sir Henry Thompson, a great British surgeon and polymath, practiced in the area during the 1870s and went on to be appointed as chief surgeon to the King of Brussels.Doctor Edward Bach practiced from Harley Street in the 1920s before moving to the London Homeopathic Hospital and then developing the Bach Flower Remedies which are still so popular today. Times have obviously changed since the nineteenth century when medical practitioners would have set up a surgery in their own home and arranged their own appointments and Harley Street continues to flourish as a centre for all things medicinal. Needless to say the clinics found here offer the latest technology alongside some of the country’s best medical expertise.Today there are over 3,000 people employed in the area which offers a broad range of medical services, from complementary medicine to plastic surgery. So whether you’re looking for laser eye surgery in London or simply need to register with a GP you are sure to find what you need here Harley Street makes a highly desirable location from which to practice and the area continues to attract a large number of top medical practitioners, from eye surgeons and doctors to psychiatrists and plastic surgeons. If you need to get to Harley Street for an appointment then you have several options to choose from. If catching the tube you can get off at Bond Street or Oxford Circus for the more southerly area, while Regents Park and Great Portland Street lie to the north so you can easily catch a tube to fit in with exactly where you are going. What’s more, Marylebone and Euston railway stations are both close-by and the car parks at Portland Place and Harley Street make life that little bit easier for those arriving by car.