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Anything But BIG

Pretentious number plate ‘BIG’ attracts attention in Knightsbridge

 

‘Mr Big’ in Sex and the City was considered a bit of player. He was the “big man on the campus” according to Carrie Bradshaw and he was an “intriguing character” in the eyes of Comcast.

 

Now, in Cadogan Square in London, someone has decided to pretend to be him. They’ve positioned their ego on a Porsche and installed on it a numberplate that reads ‘8IG’ (or ‘BIG’ to the casual observer).

 

Plainly not all locals were as unimpressed as us: Someone named Tabrez left a note on the car asking to buy it. He announced: “I already hold other ‘BIG’ plates.”

 

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    • Portered Art – £950,000 for studio in Chelsea Studios, 414 – 416 Fulham Road, London, SW6 1EB, United Kingdom – Charming hidden artist’s studio next to Chelsea Football Club for sale in Chelsea Studios, SW6 for £950,000 through Marsh & Parsons.

    January 23, 2020

    Portered Art
    A Castle of Commerce – £60.3 million ($79 million, €70.6 million or درهم290.1 million)for penthouse at Woolworth Tower Residences, Woolworth Building, 2 Park Place, 233 Broadway, New York, United States of America – Penthouse in “the cathedral of commerce” that is the Woolworth Building in NYC for sale for £60min spite of just being a raw space.

    December 30, 2019

    A Castle of Commerce
    Dr II Poo – Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, registration “Dr II Poo” – Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen spotted with a lavatory related numberplate in Chelsea.

    December 24, 2019

    Dr II Poo
    A Bonkers Priced Box – A box at Royal Albert Hall for £3 million or a castle in Durham for the same price? Box seating twelve people at the Royal Albert Hall for sale for the same price as a 15,000 square foot ‘castle’ in County Durham. Agents: Harrods Estates and Urban Base.

    December 17, 2019

    A Bonkers Priced Box
    Pugin & Panic – £9,000 per month for Oswaldcroft, Woolton Road, Woolton, Childwall, Liverpool, L16 8NG, United Kingdom through Denton Clark Rentals – Pugin designed mansion with two panic rooms for rent in Liverpool; its décor leaves a lot to be desired but it does come with a beer pump.

    December 16, 2019

    Pugin & Panic
    A Hell of a House – Section of Knightsbridge church conversion for sale for 5,000% more than it sold for in 1998 or 450% more than it fetched in 2003 – St Saviour’s House, Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1SA for sale for £55 million ($73 million, €66 million or درهم269 million) through Knight Frank.

    December 15, 2019

    A Hell of a House
    An Electric Mansion - £37,000 for 113 North Street, Auburn, New York – Victorian New York state mansion in the area where the world’s first execution by electric chair occurred goes on sale for just £37,000 –James Seymour Mansion, 113 North Street, Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, NY 13021, United States of America – For sale for £37,000 ($50,000, €45,000 or درهم184,000) with a deadline of 5pm on Wednesday 18th December 2019 through Michael DeRosa.

    December 14, 2019

    An Electric Mansion
    O (Costly) Christmas Tree, O (Costly) Christmas Tree – London declared “more merry” than New York as it is revealed Christmas trees in the former can be had for sums 50,000% less than the latter. Claridge’s, Poundland, Home Bargains, Maddox Gallery, Annabel’s, Tamara Ecclestone, Soho Trees, Cindy Adams, Aretha Franklin.

    December 10, 2019

    O (Costly) Christmas Tree, O (Costly) Christmas Tree
    A Hovel House – Not so miserable looking house named ‘The Hovel’ on the quaintly named ‘Duck Lane’ for sale for virtually the same price as in 2005 – £400,000 for The Hovel, Duck Lane, Ludgershall, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 9XZ through agents Michael Graham in November 2019.

    December 9, 2019

    A Hovel House
    A Porsche or a Pad? – One bedroom, first floor flat in Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, London, SW3 for sale for just £175,000 through Russell Simpson. Alternatively Hexagon Classics have a 1992 Porsche 911 (964) Carrera RS Lightweight from Hexagon Classics. They have one on offer for £179,995.

    December 8, 2019

    A Porsche or a Pad?
    A Grand Grosser – 1965 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman for sale – “As good as new” 1965 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman “dictator car” to be sold at auction in London by Bonhams. They offer the limousine at their 7th December 2019 sale at their New Bond Street showroom and have set an estimate of £300,000 to £500,000 ($388,000 to $646,000, €352,000 to €586,000 or درهم1.4 million to درهم2.4 million).

    November 30, 2019

    A Grand Grosser
    A Magnificent Manor – £8.5 million ($10.9 million, €10 million or درهم40.2 million) for Hinwick House, Podington, Wellingborough, Bedfordshire, NN29 7JE, United Kingdom through agents Savills – Grade I listed Queen Anne manor house in Bedfordshire for sale for a sum 41% lower than it was offered for in 2016.

    November 25, 2019

    A Magnificent Manor
    One Owner Since 1884 – The Manor House, 26 Bancroft, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1JW, United Kingdom for sale through agents Michael Graham for £500,000 ($641,000, €582,000 or درهم2.4 million) – Striking Grade II* listed Georgian manor house that was the premises of a renowned antiques dealer for 130 years and the setting for ‘Kavangah QC’ for sale for less than a price of a studio flat in SW3.

    November 23, 2019

    One Owner Since 1884
    A Manhattan Mash-Up – “Baronial” bachelor pad-esque Manhattan loft that belonged to the late Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson KBE (1924 – 2019) for sale – Unit 7FL, 73 5th Ave Flatiron, Manhattan, New York, NY 10003, United States of America – For sale for £5.6 million ($7.2 million, €6.5 million or درهم26.4 million) through Jeffrey Stockwell of Compass.

    November 20, 2019

    A Manhattan Mash-Up
    Clocks & Crime – ($599,000 €545,000 or درهم2.2 million) for Herschede Mansion, 3886 Reading Road, North Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, OH 45229, United States of America – For sale through agents Coldwell Banker West Shell – Italian Renaissance style mansion in Cincinnati, Ohio for sale; it was built for a clockmaker, home to Burt Reynolds’ first wife Judy Carne’s lawyer and more recently a convicted sexual offender named Ian D. Reynolds.

    November 14, 2019

    Clocks & Crime
    Lavish Leasam – £9.5 million ($12.2 million, €11.1 million or درهم44.8 million) for Leasam House, Leasam Lane, Playden, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7UE, United Kingdom through agents Savills – Vast Georgian mansion close to the East Sussex coast with garaging for nineteen cars for sale for just under £10 million.

    November 13, 2019

    Lavish Leasam
    Tosspot Towning – Truth about peddler of junk Ian Towning revealed – ‘The Steeple Times’ exposes the truth about the shameless drag queen-esque peddler of junk Ian Towning. Pictured camping it up with the now deceased paedophile Max Clifford.

    November 12, 2019

    Tosspot Towning
    A Regency Rock – £20k per month for The Stone, Pheasant Hill, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, HP8 4SA, United Kingdom – ‘Georgian Regency’ country house to rent for £20,000 per month in a Buckinghamshire village voted ‘the best in England’ through agents Knight Frank.

    November 9, 2019

    A Regency Rock
    A Romping Royal Range Rover – 1994 ex-Prince Jefri Range Rover limo – Range Rover limousine originally used by the sex mad Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei for sale for 94% less than its original £323,000 cost – For sale at Silverstone Auctions NEC Classic Motor Show 2019 sale in Birmingham on Saturday 9th November 2019 with an estimate of £18,000 to £24,000 ($23,100 to $30,700, €20,900 to €27,800 or درهم84,700 to درهم112,900).

    November 8, 2019

    A Romping Royal Range Rover
    A Thrifty Reduction – £3.8 million for Burnham Westgate Hall, Burnham Market, Burnham Market, King’s Lynn, North Norfolk, PE31 8HE, United Kingdom through agents Sowerbys – ‘Baroness Thrifty’ Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings puts her Sir John Soane designed Norfolk mansion up for sale for 46% less than she tried to get for it in 2011 (when Johnny Depp allegedly failed to purchase it).

    October 26, 2019

    A Thrifty Reduction
    A Car Curate’s Egg – 2019 RM Sotheby’s London sale. Results. An analysis of the results at the 2019 RM Sotheby’s London sale at Olympia on Friday 25th October.

    A Car Curate’s Egg
    Polly Put The Kettle On – £10 millon for Newtown Park Estate, Portmore, Lymington, New Forest, Hampshire, SO41 5RN, United Kingdom through Knight Frank – Palladian mansion that was home to Charles Burnett III, the driver of the “fastest kettle in the world,” for sale £10 million after his death in a helicopter accident.

    October 21, 2019

    Polly Put The Kettle On
    Cavernous Caversham Park – £20 million for stately home Caversham Park, Peppard Road, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8TZ, United Kingdom through Lambert Smith Hampton – Grade II listed stately home in 93 acres of parkland in Reading, Berkshire for sale for just £174 per square foot.

    October 10, 2019

    Cavernous Caversham
    An Oligarch’s Lair – £6.5m for Villa il Poderino, Via del Giuggiolo and Via Bolognese, City of Florence, 2-4 Florence, Tuscany, Italy through agents Aste Giudiziarie – Closing date of the 19th November for sealed bids – Tuscan villa previously owned by Russian oligarch turned fugitive offered in bankruptcy sale; once valued at £16.3 million, bids of £6.5 million are now sought

    October 8, 2019

    An Oligarch’s Lair
    A Touring Tip – 1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur limo to be auctioned – Extra-long wheelbase 1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur armoured touring limousine used in Equatorial Guinea for sale for a knock down price by Bonhams on 29th September 2019 at Cheserex, Switzerland – The car will be offered without reserve at an estimate of £20,000 to £37,000 (CHF 25,000 to CHF 45,000, $24,600 to $45,000, €22,500 to €41,600 or درهم90,300 to درهم167,000).

    September 28, 2019

    A Touring Tip
    Inching an Island – Scottish island for sale for less than Knightsbridge garage – 90 acre Scottish island for sale for less than the cost of a 212 square foot garage space in Knightsbridge, London – Insh Island, Firth of Lorne, Argyll, Scotland for sale through Dawsons for £125,000 – Garage, Denbigh House, Hans Place, Knightsbridge, London, SW1 for sale for £140,000 through Ashdown Marks.

    Inching an Island
    Superlative Stedcombe – Stedcombe House, Axmouth, Devon, EX12 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.6 million, €5.1 million or درهم20.6 million) through Savills – Stunning Grade I listed symmetrical William and Mary country house in Devon with slave trade links for sale for £4.5 million.

    September 18, 2019

    Superlative Stedcombe
    Highlights of LAPADA 2019 – Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, W1 – Matthew Steeples picks his highlights at the LAPADA 2019 art and antiques fair in Mayfair’s Berkeley Square on its penultimate day.

    September 17, 2019

    Highlights of LAPADA 2019
    A Bigmouth’s Castle – £8 million for Seton Castle, Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, EH32 0PG, United Kingdom – For sale through Rettie & Co. – Scotland’s most expensive private residence for sale for 47% less than its 2005 asking price; it was designed by Robert Adam and is currently owned by self-made tech tycoons Stephen Leach and his wife Heather Luscombe.

    September 9, 2019

    A Bigmouth’s Castle
    Motoring Elegance – Matthew Steeples selects highlights from the 2019 Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace.

    September 8, 2019

    Motoring Elegance
    Five of the Best – Places to Buy Gifts – Marketeer Branka Virily selects five of the best places to buy gifts.

    September 4, 2019

    Five of the Best – Places to Buy Gifts
    Beautiful Butlins – £2.9 million childhood home of singer James Blunt Cley Windmill, The Quay, Cley-next-the-Sea, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 7RP, United Kingdom – For sale through Strutt & Parker for £2.9 million ($3.5 million, €3.2 million or درهم13 million) as a whole or £2.3 million ($2.8 million, €2.5 million or درهم10.3 million) for just the windmill alone.

    September 1, 2019

    Beautiful Butlins
    Review – New contributor Mahri Smith reviews The Peacock Room by Merryn Corcoran.

    August 29, 2019

    The Peacock Room
    Britten Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 apartment for sale for just £140,000; there is, of course, a catch.

    August 17, 2019

    Cheap in Chelsea
    A Bitter Cabriolet – £77,500 for 1990 Bitter SC cabriolet – Rare (and noisy) 1990 cabriolet created by a man named Mr Bitter for sale for £77,500. Offered by Kensington dealer Graeme Hunt.

    August 14, 2019

    A Bitter Cabriolet
    A Louche Limo – 1966 Mercedes-Benz 600 sedan by Henri Chapron of Paris complete with ‘Jimmy Savile-esque’ fold-down bed to be auctioned as part of the Sáragga Collection by RM Sotheby’s near Comporta, Portugal on 21st September 2019; it was created for the eccentric Armenian oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian.

    August 5, 2019

    A Louche Limo
    Waterside Wixels – Stunning converted sail loft and “local landmark” in “the best position” in Topsham, Devon for sale for £3.5 million – £3.5 million for Wixels, Ferry Road, Topsham, Devon, EX3 0JH, United Kingdom through Knight Frank.

    July 27, 2019

    Waterside Wixels
    A Costly Chapel – St Luke’s Chapel, Rose Square, The Bromptons, South Kensington, London, SW3 6RS – Derelict Grade II* listed Gothic revival chapel in South Kensington for sale for the extraordinary sum of £7.5 million through Russell & Simpson and Strutt & Parker – St Luke’s Chapel, Rose Square, The Bromptons, South Kensington, London, SW3

    July 26, 2019

    A Costly Chapel

    July 23, 2019

    Stretching a Porsche
    Five of the Best – Masterpiece 2019 – The Steeple Times selects the highlights of Masterpiece 2019. Items from Trinity House, Peter Harrington, Crane Kalman, Collisart LLC and Peter Fetterman Gallery.

    July 3, 2019

    Five of the Best – Masterpiece 2019
    Five of the Best – Rarities – Five highly unusual items for sale currently including one that might be suitable as a gift for wannabe PM and one-time cocaine experimenter Michael Gove – Rock-crystal deer owned by Coco Chanel, pocket watch owned by Edgar Allen Poe, Range Rover convertible won in a card game and then lost by its owner and a William IV sterling silver cocaine powder tower and scoop.

    June 10, 2019

    Five of the Best – Rarities
    Come To My Island – £3.2 million ($4.1 million, €3.6 million or درهم15million) for Eyot House, D’Olyly Carte Island, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 8LX – Private island on Thames that was owned by the first owner of The Savoy Hotel for sale for £800k less than it was sold for in 2013 through Chase Apartments.

    June 9, 2019

    Come To My Island
    Parking or a Farm? £175,000 for a Welsh farm and for an SW7 parking space – Outdoor parking space in South Kensington for sale for the same price as a Welsh farmstead.

    June 5, 2019

    Parking or a Farm?
    A Cut-Price Cadillac – 1985 Cadillac Seville to be auctioned; its estimate is just £9,500 to £12,600 ($12,000 to $16,000, €10,700 to €14,300 or درهم44,100 to درهم58) through RM Auctions’ 2019 Auburn Spring sale in Auburn Auction Park from 29th May to 1st June 2019, Indiana; the perfect car for any hip-hop or ‘Dallas’ devotee.

    May 27, 2019

    A Cut-Price Cadillac
    A Modern Masterpiece – Victorian farmhouse transformed into an Anglo-Baroque-style masterpiece by Robert Adam complete with a lion from Chuchill’s garden on the roof for sale through Savills for £2.45 million ($3.1 million, €2.8 million or درهم11.4 million) – Eastwood Farm, Chilsham Lane, Herstmonceux, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 4QH.

    May 21, 2019

    A Modern Masterpiece
    A Dean’s Palace – £2.5 million for The Old Deanery, Wells, Somerset, United Kingdom, BA5 2UG – Lodestone Property offer The Old Deanery with a guide price of £2.5 million ($3.2 million, €2.8 million or درهم11.7 million) and seek best and final offers by 12 noon on Thursday 12th September 2019.

    May 19, 2019

    A Dean’s Palace
    Tremendous Twyssenden - £6.95 million for The Twyssenden Estate, Goudhurst, Kent, United Kingdom, TN17 2RG – Grade II* listed Kentish manor house for sale along with 258 acres of land; its asking price has been reduced by over £1 million through Savills.

    May 12, 2019

    Tremendous Twyssenden
    Is Britain’s Most Expensive House For Sale? £200 million The Old Rectory, 56 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 5DB – Is what could be Britain’s most expensive house for sale? If it is, the buyer will come to own Central London’s largest private garden also.

    May 9, 2019

    Is Britain’s Most Expensive House For Sale?
    Cheap in Chelsea – Price of Chelsea house cut from £1m to £290k – A home in Chelsea for £170 per square foot? Such can be found in the form of the MS Mouette, a converted ferry moored at Cadogan Pier, London, SW3.

    May 7, 2019

    Cheap in Chelsea
    We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea – £600,000 cottage in Pin Mill, Suffolk – Charming waterfront cottage in Suffolk riverside hamlet associated with sailing, smuggling, Arthur Ransome and ‘Lovejoy’ for sale through Jackson-Stops – Sam’s Cottage, Pin Mill Waterfront, Pin Mill, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom, IP9 1JP – £600,000 ($777,000, €695,000 or درهم2.9 million).

    April 29, 2019

    We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

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