Nor does London have any street called Mayfair. It was a coaching inn, a hotel and then a Lyons tea shop which, miraculously saved from 1960s destruction for “road widening”, now serves as a Co-Op bank. You will search in vain for an Angel Street in Islington. One street is misnamed: it is Great Marlborough Street, not Marlborough Street. "You will search in vain for an Angel Street in Islington" It’s also a game which has defined for millions globally their knowledge of London’s streets but whose actual selection of 22 streets was cobbled together by the elderly boss of a printing firm and his secretary on a day trip down from Leeds. Monopoly was a game designed to criticise capitalism which became a worldwide capitalist success. Ever wanted to go and see the London monopoly board streets for yourself? Nicholas Boys Smith shares some little known secrets behind the streets
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