Top: The facades of 23 and 25 Brook Street, the Georgian residences where musicians Jimi Hendrix and George Frederick Handel resided, respectively. Bottom left: English Heritage blue plaque on 23 Brook Street commemorating Jimi Hendrix. Bottom right: Entrance to Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, now unused. The new entrance is 20 metres down Lancashire Court, the lane to the left of 23 Brook Street.

Welcome to Handel and Hendrix in London.

The mission of the museum is to promote knowledge, awareness, and enjoyment, of the music of Georg Frederick Handel, and Jimmy Hendrix, to as wide a public audience as possible.

The museum's goal is to inspire, educate, and inform, through the interpretation of the Georgian house at 25 Brook Street where Handel lived and composed for 36 years, and the adjoining house at 23 Brook Street, where Hendrix lived for a mere year of his tragically short life.

Both musicians were vital and active residents of the City of London. This tour, which focusses on rock legend Jimmy Hendrix, will take you to some of the places that were important to him during his short but critically important period here at the end of his life.

See if you can find the blue heritage plaque, between the first floor windows, of 23 Brook Street.

This modest upstairs flat is where Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham lived between June of 1968, and March of the following year.

He and Kathy spent significant time and money decorating the flat.

They purchased curtains and cushions from the nearby John Lewis department store, and bought ornaments and accessories from the Portobello Road market, and elsewhere.

Despite living there for such a short time, Jimi told Kathy that the flat was "the first real home of his own".

In early 1969, Jimmy gave a series of press and media interviews at the flat, while performing regularly in and around London. In March of that year, he left for New York, and never lived at this flat again.

Kathy remained in the flat for a while longer. Then it was rented as office space, until it was taken over in two thousand, by the Handel House Trust as its administrative headquarters.

From 2006 to 2013, the rooms were opened to the public as part of the Open House Weekend. In 2010, they were open to visitors for 12 days, as part of the exhibition "Hendrix in London".

In 2014, the Handel House Trust was awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, to restore the Hendrix Flat permanently, as well as creating a new studio space, and improving visitor amenities.

The Flat opened to the public on Wednesday, February tenth, 2016, and has been open ever since.

Now. Continue walking west, along Brook Street, past Handel House, towards South Moulton Street.