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Pall Mall / ˌ p æ l ˈ m æ l / ⓘ is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London. It connects St James's Street to Trafalgar Square and is a section of the regional A4 road .
Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle (/ ˈ p æ l ˈ m æ l /, / ˈ p ɛ l ˈ m ɛ l /, also US: / ˈ p ɔː l ˈ m ɔː l /) is a lawn game (though primarily played on earth surfaces rather than grass) that was mostly played in the 16th and 17th centuries.
History. Pall Mall ad from The Elks Magazine, 1925. The Pall Mall brand was introduced in 1899 by the Black Butler Company (UK) in an attempt to cater to the upper class with the first "premium" cigarette. It is named after Pall Mall, a well-known street in the St James's area of London, containing several of the private clubs which such people ...
History. The Mall, looking towards Buckingham Palace (2003) The Mall began as part of the tended grounds of St James's Palace, and when pall-mall became popular, as a field for playing the game. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was a fashionable promenade, bordered by trees. [2]
Pall Corporation, headquartered in Port Washington, New York and a wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation since 2015, is a global supplier of filtration, separations and purification products.
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, The Globe merged into The Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into The Evening Standard in 1923.
Cumberland House, circa 1896. Cumberland House was a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in London, England. It was built in the 1760s by Matthew Brettingham for Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany and was originally called York House.
Pall Mall with the Carlton Club, photographed by James Valentine Carlton Club in Pall Mall, c. 1896. The club was founded in 1832, by Tory peers, MPs and gentlemen, as a place to coordinate party activity after the party's defeat over the First Reform Act.
Paille-maille (pall-mall) illustrated in Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs, published 1891. Original image by Lauthier, 1717. The oldest document to bear the word croquet with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers' Company of London.
The Pall Mall Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914. Begun by William Waldorf Astor as an offshoot of The Pall Mall Gazette, the magazine included poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, and general commentaries, along with extensive artwork.