What did Bernard Sunley green plaque do at 24 Berkeley Square?

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# Bernard Sunley at 24 Berkeley Square From this elegant Georgian townhouse in the heart of Mayfair, Bernard Sunley orchestrated one of post-war Britain's most ambitious building programmes during his seventeen years in residence from 1941 to 1958. The address served as both his home and the nerve centre of his contracting empire, where major reconstruction projects were planned and managed during the critical years of London's recovery after the Blitz. It was here, conducting business from Berkeley Square while much of the city lay in ruins, that Sunley built his reputation as the man who literally rebuilt damaged London—his company eventually becoming responsible for reconstructing over 1,000 bombed properties across the capital. This townhouse represented not merely a comfortable address for a successful businessman, but the command post from which one of the era's most significant property developers shaped the physical recovery of the nation, before channelling his wealth into the philanthropic work that would define the later years of his life.