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Portland and Place
The couple lived at Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire ( where Babbage engineered the central heating system ), before moving to 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London.
There is also a median on Reed College Place which is owned by Portland Department of Transportation and maintained by Portland Parks & Recreation.
From 1929 to 1932, the BBC transmitters were used to broadcast television programmes using the 30-line Baird system, and from 1932 to 1935, the BBC also produced the programmes in their own studio at 16 Portland Place.
Memorial statue in Portland Place
Langham Place, a 167, 000 square meter ( 1. 8 million square foot ) shopping centre, theatre, hotel and office tower complex opened on Portland Street near the Nelson Street intersection in July 2004.
A characteristic of Nash's plan for Regent Street was that it followed an irregular path linking Portland Place to the north with Carlton House, London ( replaced by Nash's Carlton House Terrace ( 1827 – 1833 )) to the south.
At the northern end of Portland Place Nash designed Park Crescent, London ( 1812 ) & ( 1819 – 1821 ), this opens into Nash's Park Square, London ( 1823 – 24 ), this only has terraces on the east and west, the north opens into Regent's Park.
* Portland Place, London ( 1773 – 94 ) ( only a few houses survive )
File: Polish Embassy 47 Portland Place London. jpg | Surviving Adam Houses, Portland Place, London
In the 1960s, while associated with the rock band The Presidents, Johns began working as a recording studio engineer at IBC Studios, Portland Place, London and was able to take the band in during weekends and try his skills at production and recording.
Much of BBC radio comes from Broadcasting House, Portland Place at the head of Regent Street, London
On the Gages ' return to England, the family eventually settled into a house on Portland Place in London.
He received visitors at Portland Place and at Firle, including Frederick Haldimand and Thomas Hutchinson.
Gage died at Portland Place on 2 April 1787, and was buried in the family plot at Firle.
From there Langham Place and Portland Place continue the route to Regent's Park.
Nearby points of interest are Regent's Park itself, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Physicians, Holy Trinity Church, Portland Place and Harley Street.
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and his wife Margaret Harley lend their names to Portland Place, Great Portland Street and Harley Street.

Portland and street
* Portland Street, a popular business and shopping street in Hong Kong
* Great Portland Street, a street in the West End of London
Geoffrey Donovan of the U. S. Forest Service, one of the researchers, said, " trees, which provide a range of other benefits, could improve quality of life in Portland by reducing crime ..." and he said that is because " We believe that large street trees can reduce crime by signaling to a potential criminal that a neighborhood is better cared for and, therefore, a criminal is more likely to be caught.
* McLoughlin Boulevard, the street name of Oregon Route 99E between Oregon City and Portland
Since the 1980s, Portland, Oregon has built all three types of system: a high capacity light rail system in dedicated lanes and rights-of-way, a low capacity streetcar system integrated with street traffic, and an aerial tram system.
Biographer S. R. Shutt speculates that it was either inspired by Elliott Avenue, a street that Smith had lived on in Portland, or that it was suggested by his then-girlfriend.
: For the street in London, see Great Portland Street.
Portland Street is a popular street in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
There is a street in London named Great Portland Street although it is unclear whether there is any relation or relevance to Portland Street in Hong Kong.
There is also a street in Edinburgh named Portland Street which is not far from a Pitt Street and a Dundas Street – although again it is not clear if there is any relevance to the Hong Kong Portland Street.
While the unified facades were never realised, and some developments didn't quite match the rest of the reconstruction efforts on the street leading to criticisms of an opportunity lost, Lower O ' Connell Street was nonetheless rebuilt in a coherent fashion, its buildings maintaining a standard cornice line and making use of similar materials of limestone, granite, Portland stone, and red brick with stone dressings.
In some cities and counties, such as Portland, Oregon, street and highway departments are regrading and planting rain gardens in road verges to reduce boulevard and highway runoff.
The station entrance and exit sections of the street façade were constructed in granite and the other parts were built in the same style but using Portland stone.
The film, which was taken from Portland street writer Walt Curtis ' semi-autobiographical novella, featured some of the director's hallmarks, notably an unfulfilled romanticism, a dry sense of the absurd, and the refusal to treat homosexuality as something deserving of judgment.
Each block was required to be designed with a continuous unifying façade to the street, had to be finished in Portland stone, and with a uniform cornice level 66 feet above pavement level, excluding dormers, turrets and mansard roofs.
There is also a new ramp from the ticket hall into the park featuring green walls and a stunning canopy above the staircase and lift on the south side of Piccadilly, the new street structures featuring artwork within the Portland stone cladding designed by John Maine RA.
The designs reflect the simple modernist style he was using in France for the war cemeteries ; double-height ticket halls are clad in plain Portland stone framing a glazed screen, each adapted to suit the street corner sites of most of the stations.
Thomas Bros. building in Irvine Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, in the metro areas of Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Washington, D. C. Road Atlas titles are Arizona including Las Vegas, California Including portions of Nevada, and Pacific Northwest covering Washington, Oregon, Western Idaho, Southwestern British Columbia.
Although it has always had a Portland street address, it has never actually been within the city of Portland proper.
Southbank International School has two of its campuses located within the area, one on Portland Place and another on the northern end of Conway street ( just off Warren Street ).
However, some municipalities like Portland, Oregon, and Davenport, Iowa are encouraging the implementation of fruit bearing trees ( as street trees or as park orchards ) to meet both greening and food production goals.

Portland and Marylebone
Despite the best intentions of landowners such as the Earls of Leicester and Portland to develop the land on the grand scale of neighbouring Bloomsbury, Marylebone and Mayfair, Soho never became a fashionable area for the rich.
File: Marylebone Toll Gate at Great Portland Street in 1790. jpg | View of station location in circa 1790
File: Great Portland Street Underground Station Tunnel Entrance Sept2011. jpg | Station tunnel running under Marylebone Road
Theresa Berkley or Berkeley ( died September 1836 ) was a 19th-century English dominatrix who ran a brothel in Hallam Street, just to the east of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, specialising in flagellation.
Richmond died at Portland Place, Marylebone, London, in October 1860, aged 69.
His architectural drawings and correspondence were deposited at the Royal Institute of British Architects headquarters at 66 Portland Place, Marylebone, London.
A view south down Great Portland Street from the Marylebone Road
Long sections Great Portland Street fall within two Westminster City Council areas of preservation ( Harley Street Conservation Area and East Marylebone Conservation Area ).
Great Portland Street was developed by the Dukes of Portland, who owned most of the eastern half of Marylebone in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Marylebone Toll Both on Great Portland Street circa 1790
Great Portland Street is in both Westminster Council's Harley Street Conservation and East Marylebone Conservation Areas.
Great Portland Street also provides examples of larger Edwardian buildings in the Marylebone Conservation Area.
* Great Portland Street forms part of Stage III of the W1W Tree Planting Initiative for Marylebone
* Historical short film of Great Portland Street in 1933 with the Motor Row Gala as opened by the Mayor of St. Marylebone
It is in the district of Marylebone on Langham Place and faces up Portland Place towards Regent's Park.
In Marylebone, Portland Place, London, on 28 July 1836, he married, secondly, Margaret Shaw-Stewart ( d. Somerset House, Park Lane, London, 18 July 1880 ), daughter of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, of Blackhall, Renfrewshire, 5th Baronet, and wife Catherine Maxwell, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet, and wife, without issue.

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