“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”
This is 29 Fitzroy Square, former home to Virginia Woolf, and before her, George Bernard Shaw. She lived here with her brother Adrian from 1907-1911, a few years before writing Mrs Dalloway, but seeing the gardeners on ladders made me think of buying flowers and the party preparations in the novel.
I read that Fitzroy Square - and Fitzrovia - were not considered to be an exclusive part of London until the 1930s. The Square was also the setting for Daniel Day Lewis's last film, Phantom Thread. The house they used for filming was up for sale for £15m.
