We are here to defend Tite Street – not as a museum piece, but as a living place of culture and history. When you walk down this amazing street, you walk in the footsteps of Wilde, Whistler and Sargent. You are in the birthplace of the Aesthetic Movement, a street where many stories began. To walk it today is to follow in their footsteps, and you pass more blue plaques in a quarter-mile than almost anywhere else in London.

Friends of Tite Street exists to tell that story and safeguard it — from the bricks and mortar of its artists’ studios to the wider conservation area and the legacy that continues to inspire. This is a street of global importance, central to Britain’s cultural identity, and its character must endure for future generations.