Article by Stuart Mitchell
Uma breve história da Harley Street Harley Street Londres
Harley Street é uma das várias ruas de Londres que estão intimamente ligadas a um determinado comércio. Saville Row é mundialmente famosa por sua série de alfaiates sob medida, Fleet Street com produção de jornais, Denmark Street com compositores e lojas musicais. O nicho da Harley Street é o da profissão médica. Ao contrário de Saville Row, que tem visto um declínio crescente no número de alfaiates, e de Fleet Street, que não produz mais jornais, Harley Street continua a florescer como um centro para todas as coisas médicas e medicinais.
A história da Harley Street realmente começa no início do século 18, quando o terreno entre Oxford Street e Marylebone Road foi desenvolvido no grande estilo georgiano da época.. Arquiteto John Prince apoiado com capital de Edward Harley (2º Conde de Oxford) criou uma abundância de propriedades altamente classificadas com seu centro em Cavendish Square. Na década de 1790, a área estava na moda, atraindo vários residentes ricos e famosos.. Gladstone morava em 73 Harley Street, William Turner morou em vários endereços, primeiro em 35 Harley Street e mais tarde em 46 e então em 23 Rua da Rainha, onde construiu uma galeria.
O afluxo de profissionais médicos começou em meados do século XIX. A rua estava bem posicionada para ligações ferroviárias ao norte e uma oferta de clientes ricos à sua porta.. A inauguração da Sociedade Médica de Londres na Chandos Street em 1873 e depois a Royal Society of Medicine em Wimpole Street em 1912 melhorou ainda mais a reputação da área em termos de cuidados médicos.
Os registros mostram que em 1860 havia por aí 20 médicos em Harley Street, isso subiu para 80 de 1900 e quase 200 de 1914. Com a criação do SNS em 1948 havia por aí 1,500 médicos que atuam na área. Estima-se que alguns 3,000 pessoas trabalham na profissão médica em uma região próxima à Harley Street. Parece que a Rua continuará com seu nobre comércio ainda por alguns anos.
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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, hospitals, 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.