| Description | This view of Hyde Park Corner, looking towards Piccadilly, shows the turnpike where tolls were paid by road users. The building on the right of the picture is St George's Hospital which was opened in 1733 by a group of Governors from Westminster Hospital. The hospital moved to Tooting, in south-west London in 1980. Drawn and engraved by Dalgety. Publisthed by R Ackermann, 104 Strand, in "View's [sic] of London No 1" |