London’s Alleys: Conway Mews, W1

It is an outwardly normal mews in the Fitzrovia part of London with an old pub at the front, but something unexpected lurks behind.Like so many in this part of London, the mews came when the fields were developed into housing for the expanding city and provided stabling for the grander houses that surrounded it.
R Horwood map 1799
The road it is next to was originally called Conway, but by the 1850s, it was named Hampstead Street, and by the 1910s, it had been renamed Southampton Street. It seem