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Modern TimesWelcome to MayfairThe residents... in their own words

Meet the residents of one of London's most attractive villages.

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“One should add a bit of sparkle to the world”

Manthe Penton Harrap – Mayfair resident

  • “One should add a bit of sparkle to the world”
  • “I do pinch myself when I remember that I come from Essex and left school at 16 with no qualifications”
  • “We actually invented gentrification in the middle of the eighteenth century”
  • "It takes about six to eight months to make a shoe by hand"
  • “When I tell people I live in Mayfair, the vast majority don’t believe me because I drive a cab”
  • “I have somewhere in the region of six billionaires on my books"

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