Prince of Wales Drive 

In the early 20th century, Flower’s public career came to an abrupt end following the exposure of a suppressed sexual scandal involving networks of elite men and much younger males, many from poorer backgrounds and with far less social power. While such relationships were illegal, they were also unevenly policed, shaped by class, influence and access to protection.
What followed revealed stark inequalities in how the law was applied. While men of wealth and status were quietly shielded from prosecution, younger men connected to the same networks were charged and received lengthy prison sentences. Contemporary accounts and later historical research make clear that class and influence played a decisive role in determining who faced punishment, and who did not.
This episode matters not because of personal scandal, but because it shows how queer lives were shaped by systems of power long before modern ideas of LGBTQ+ identity or rights. It highlights how sexual regulation in Edwardian Britain was entangled with class hierarchy, political protection and economic dependency, producing very different consequences for different people.
Including Prince of Wales Drive and Park Town on this map is not because these streets were sites of queer social life, but because their very development is intertwined with the life and career of a man whose sexuality, and the way it was handled by the law, reveal how deeply class and power shaped queer experience. These buildings stand as reminders that queer history is also written into patterns of property, politics and respectability — into who was protected, who was punished, and how inequality was built into the everyday landscape of the borough.