Handel
House is located on Brook Street in the heart of the very fashionable Mayfair
section in central London. This lovely house - Handel’s home for nearly 30
years – was as fashionable then as it is today.
If you have a very rich great aunt taking you out in London, you should
suggest visiting Handel House first and then going to high tea at Claridge’s,
one of London’s great old hotels, where you can sip tea, eat very small cucumber sandwiches and scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam for about $75 each!
one of London’s great old hotels, where you can sip tea, eat very small cucumber sandwiches and scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam for about $75 each!
Actually,
getting into Handel House is an adventure in itself as you must go down an
alley, make a left turn through a small stone arch, take the cobblestone foot
path and enter the museum’s main entrance from the back. The ground floor is such valuable retail
space that the museum lets it out and has restored all the rooms above. They
have musical instruments, paintings, period furniture, and occasionally hold
concerts there.
They also have a very nice gift shop where “My Name Is Handel: The Story of Water Music” by Maestro Classics is now sold.
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