Alex Turner - Notionwide Mercury Prize, Park Lane
September 2008
馃摳: Yui Mok (Getty Images)
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Park Lane, with the Hilton Hotel in the background, London, 1974. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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1960 Mercury Park Lane
Mercury was a brand that had a whole lot of potential but no one to drive it home. It fell to the wayside as Ford focused energies on brands like Lincoln. Nevertheless, Park Lane was another attempt to try and influence a new generation of buyers. The styling of Park Lane was absolutely beautiful, and that鈥檚 where things get a bit complicated. Pricing for Park Lane was quite high and that turned a lot of buyers away because Mercury was entering into a completely different bracket.
1960 Mercury Park Lane
A lot of aspects of the car were similar to segment stalwarts like the Impala. Nevertheless, sales were some of the worst of any Mercury model. The collector鈥檚 community has also tended to ignore Park Lane, and finding one of these in decent shape isn鈥檛 easy. Most of the early Park Lane models are either rusted away or in a museum.
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Back at the new-look Promenade at The Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair, following its lengthy refurbishment. The place looks fantastic.
Raspberry lemonade mocktails
Canapes included oscietra caviar, veggie sushi, and asparagus and hollandaise
For starters, burrata with truffle, candied beetroot, artichoke and walnuts, and tuna tartare
Rosettes of sole, verjus, toasted buckwheat, charred cucumber and almonds
Halal fillet of Aberdeen Angus beef with mouselline potatoes and red onion
For dessert, baked alaska with red fruit tea ice cream and raspberry sorbet. Delicious!
The Promenade
The Dorchester
53 Park Lane
London W1K 1QA
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Hyde Park Corner, London; 17.7.2021
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A 1959 Mercury Park Lane convertible
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Park Lane Hotel New York
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Stay Close is nominated for the TV Choice Awards in three categories.
Best New Drama - Stay Close
Best Actor - Richard Armitage / James Nesbitt
Best Actress - Cush Jumbo
All votes must be in by midnight on June 24. The ceremony will be live at the London Hilton on Park Lane on November 14, 2022.
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60鈥瞫 Mercury Park Lane
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US Vogue June 1960 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍
Left: Model Anna Carin Bjorck wears a sand silk tussah dress by Dorene. Bone calf leather handbag, paragon size, by Calderon.
Right: Model Nena von Schlebr眉gge wears a pale blue Belgian linen Sichel dress. Handbag in beige linen and bone calfskin, by Park Lane. The white pumps, by Delman.
Photo Jerry Schatzberg
vogue archive
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Though the media also made no reference to the Service's shabby Mayfair headquarters at Leconfield House, to which it moved late in 1948, bus conductors and taxi drivers were less inhibited. A member of Registry recalls:
"When you got off the bus in Park Lane the conductor would shout down the bus 'Curzon Street and MI5' and all the girls would troop off looking somewhat embarrassed! We also had to contend with some of the 'ladies of the night' in Curzon Street as Shepherds Market was a very red light district in the 60's and I think they might have thought they had some competition."
Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm
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