NUMBER 10 Hyde Park Place, now demolished, was the smallest house in London. It hid the entrance to a cemetery behind which held the grave of Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy.
Shortly after his death his corpse was stolen by bodysnatchers, and was recognised on the dissection table by a surgeon in a teaching session. The surgeon petitioned for the creation of this three foot wide building to house a watchman who could prevent such atrocities from recurring.
