1903, Albermarle Street, to ease the congestion caused by the popularity of the Faraday Lecture Theatre when the Curies' demonstrated their newly discovered radium.
The Royal Institution gave London its first one-way street. A night out at the Royal Institution was one of the hottest tickets in town. Charles Dickens, Prince Albert and every other Victorian celebrity fought for front-row tickets to hear Humphry Davy and his fellow pioneers of science. Their carriages so thoroughly clogged Albemarle Street that in 1808 they were instructed to proceed one way only.