Ladbroke Grove

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Ladbroke Grove is named after James Weller Ladbroke, who developed the Ladbroke Estate in the mid nineteenth century, until then a largely rural area on the western edges of London.

Ladbroke Grove station is located on the road. It originally opened as part of the Metropolitan Railway on 13 June 1864 as Notting Hill with the extension of that line from Paddington to Hammersmith. It was renamed Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove in 1880 and Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington) on 1 June 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938.

The adjacent bridge and nearby section of the Westway (London) was regenerated in 2007 in a partnership including Urban Eye, Transport for London and London Underground. It is the nearest tube station to Portobello Road Market and on the route of the annual Notting Hill Carnival in August.


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Tom Vague   
Added: 9 Sep 2020 14:02 GMT   

The Bedford family at 3 Acklam Road (1860 - 1965)
From the 19th century up until 1965, number 3 Acklam Road, near the Portobello Road junction, was occupied by the Bedford family.

When the Westway construction work began the Bedfords sold up and moved to south London. In the early 1970s the house was taken over by the North Kensington Amenity Trust and became the Notting Hill Carnival office before its eventual demolition.

Anne Bedford (now McSweeney) has fond memories of living there, although she recalls: ‘I now know that the conditions were far from ideal but then I knew no different. There was no running hot water, inside toilet or bath, apart from the tin bath we used once a week in the large kitchen/dining room. Any hot water needed was heated in a kettle. I wasn’t aware that there were people not far away who were a lot worse off than us, living in poverty in houses just like mine but families renting one room. We did have a toilet/bathroom installed in 1959, which was ‘luxury’.

‘When the plans for the Westway were coming to light, we were still living in the house whilst all the houses opposite became empty and boarded up one by one. We watched all this going on and decided that it was not going to be a good place to be once the builders moved in to demolish all the houses and start work on the elevated road. Dad sold the house for a fraction of what it should have been worth but it needed too much doing to it to bring it to a good living standard. We were not rich by any means but we were not poor. My grandmother used to do her washing in the basement once a week by lighting a fire in a big concrete copper to heat the water, which would have been there until demolition.

‘When we moved from number 3, I remember the upright piano that my grandparents used to play �’ and me of sorts �’ being lowered out of the top floor and taken away, presumably to be sold. I used to play with balls up on the wall of the chemist shop on the corner of Acklam and Portobello. We would mark numbers on the pavement slabs in a grid and play hopscotch. At the Portobello corner, on one side there was the Duke of Sussex pub, on the other corner, a chemist, later owned by a Mr Fish, which I thought was amusing. When I was very young I remember every evening a man peddling along Acklam Road with a long thin stick with which he lit the streetlights.’ Michelle Active who lived at number 33 remembers: ‘6 of us lived in a one-bed basement flat on Acklam Road. When they demolished it we moved to a 4-bed maisonette on Silchester Estate and I thought it was a palace, two toilets inside, a separate bathroom that was not in the kitchen, absolute heaven.’



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David Jones-Parry   
Added: 7 Sep 2017 12:13 GMT   

Mcgregor Road, W11 (1938 - 1957)
I was born n bred at 25 Mc Gregor Rd in 1938 and lived there until I joined the Royal Navy in 1957. It was a very interesting time what with air raid shelters,bombed houses,water tanks all sorts of areas for little boys to collect scrap and sell them on.no questions asked.A very happy boyhood -from there we could visit most areas of London by bus and tube and we did.

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Norman Norrington   
Added: 28 Dec 2020 08:31 GMT   

Blechynden Street, W10
I was born in Hammersmith Hospital (Ducane Rd) I lived at 40 Blecynden Street from birth in 1942 to 1967 when I moved due to oncoming demolition for the West way flyover.
A bomb fell locally during the war and cracked one of our windows, that crack was still there the day I left.
It was a great street to have grown up in I have very fond memories of living there.



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charlie evans   
Added: 10 Apr 2021 18:51 GMT   

apollo pub 1950s
Ted Lengthorne was the landlord of the apollo in the 1950s. A local called darkie broom who lived at number 5 lancaster road used to be the potman,I remember being in the appollo at a street party that was moved inside the pub because of rain for the queens coronation . Not sure how long the lengthornes had the pub but remember teds daughter julie being landlady in the early 1970,s

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john ormandy   
Added: 20 Mar 2021 17:30 GMT   

Blechynden Street, W10
Went to school St Johns with someone named Barry Green who lived in that St. Use to wait for him on the corner take a slow walk an end up being late most days.

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Lived here
Norman Norrington   
Added: 8 Jun 2021 08:08 GMT   

Blechynden Street, W10
Lived here #40 1942-1967

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David James Bloomfield   
Added: 13 Jul 2021 11:54 GMT   

Hurstway Street, W10
Jimmy Bloomfield who played for Arsenal in the 1950s was brought up on this street. He was a QPR supporter as a child, as many locals would be at the time, as a teen he was rejected by them as being too small. They’d made a mistake

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Richard   
Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:36 GMT   

Elgin Crescent, W11
Richard Laitner (1955-1983), a barrister training to be a doctor at UCL, lived here in 1983. He was murdered aged 28 with both his parents after attending his sister’s wedding in Sheffield in 1983. The Richard Laitner Memorial Fund maintains bursaries in his memory at UCL Medical School

Source: Ancestry Library Edition

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Richard   
Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:39 GMT   

Elgin Crescent, W11
Richard Laitner lived at 24 Elgin Crescent

Source: Ancestry Library Edition

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Christian   
Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT   

Cornwall Road, W11
Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road.

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Gillian   
Added: 17 Feb 2024 00:08 GMT   

No 36 Upper East Smithfield
My great great grandfather was born at No 36 Upper East Smithfield and spent his early years staring out at a "dead wall" of St Katharine’s Docks. His father was an outfitter and sold clothing for sailors. He describes the place as being backed by tenements in terrible condition and most of the people living there were Irish.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 16 Feb 2024 20:32 GMT   

Name origin
Interestingly South Lambeth derives its name from the same source as Lambeth itself - a landing place for lambs.

But South Lambeth has no landing place - it is not on the River Thames

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Portobello Green features a shopping arcade under the Westway along Thorpe Close, an open-air market under the canopy, and community gardens.
22 Maxilla Gardens, W10 22 Maxilla Gardens is a now-demolished property.
24 Maxilla Gardens, W10 24 Maxilla Gardens was an address along Maxilla Gardens.
3 Acklam Road From the 19th century up until 1965, number 3 Acklam Road, near the Portobello Road junction, was occupied by the Bedford family.
Acklam Road protests Acklam Road was the centre of much action during the building of the Westway.
Albert Hotel The Albert Hotel stood on the corner of All Saints Road and Westbourne Park Road.
All Saints Notting Hill All Saints church was designed by the Victorian Gothic revival pioneer William White, who was also a mountaineer, Swedish gymnastics enthusiast and anti-shaving campaigner.
Kensington Hippodrome The Kensington Hippodrome was a racecourse built in Notting Hill, London, in 1837, by entrepreneur John Whyte.
Kensington Park Hotel The KPH is a landmark pub on Ladbroke Grove.
Ladbroke Grove Ladbroke Grove is named after James Weller Ladbroke, who developed the Ladbroke Estate in the mid nineteenth century, until then a largely rural area on the western edges of London.
North Kensington Library North Kensington Library opened in 1891 and was described as one of London’s finest public libraries.
Notting Hill Barn Farm Notting Barns Farm was one of two farms in the North Kensington area.
Political meeting (1920s) Meeting in front of the Junction Arms situated where Tavistock Road, Crescent and Basing Road met.
Portobello Farm Portobello Farm House was approached along Turnpike Lane, sometimes referred to as Green’s Lane, a track leading from Kensington Gravel Pits towards a wooden bridge over the canal.
Ridler’s Tyre Yard Ridler’s Tyres was situated in a part of Blechynden Street which no longer exists
St. Joseph’s Home St Joseph's dominated a part of Portobello Road up until the 1980s.
The Apollo The Apollo pub was located at 18 All Saints Road, on the southeast corner of the Lancaster Road junction.
The Crown Acklam Road was the centre of much action during the building of the Westway
Western Iron Works The Western Iron Works was the foundry business of James Bartle and Co.

NEARBY STREETS
Acklam Road, W10 Acklam Road was the centre of much action during the building of the Westway (Notting Hill)
Alba Place, W11 Alba Place is part of the Colville Conservation Area (Notting Hill)
All Saints Road, W11 Built between 1852-61, All Saints Road is named after All Saints Church on Talbot Road (Notting Hill)
Archer House, W11 Archer House is a block on Westbourne Grove (Notting Hill)
Archer Street, W11 Archer Street was renamed Westbourne Grove in 1938 (Notting Hill)
Archway Close, W10 Archway Close is a cul-de-sac off of St Mark’s Road, W10 (North Kensington)
Arthur Court, W10 Arthur Court is a block on Silchester Road (Notting Dale)
Arundel Gardens, W11 Arundel Gardens was built towards the end of the development of the Ladbroke Estate, in the early 1860s (Notting Hill)
Aston House, W11 Aston House is a building on Portobello Road (Notting Hill)
Barandon Street, W11 Barandon Street connected Lancaster Road with Latimer Road station (Notting Dale)
Bartle Road, W11 Bartle Road is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Dale)
Basing Street, W11 Basing Street was originally Basing Road between 1867 and 1939 (Notting Hill)
Bassett Road, W10 Bassett Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (North Kensington)
Blagrove Road, W10 This is a street in the W10 postcode (Notting Hill)
Blechynden Mews, W10 Blechynden Mews is a former side street in London W11 (Notting Dale)
Blechynden Street, W10 Blechynden Street is now a tiny street in the vicinity of Latimer Road station, W10 (Notting Dale)
Blenheim Crescent, W11 Blenheim Crescent one of the major thoroughfares in Notting Hill - indeed it features in the eponymous film (Notting Hill)
Bomore Road, W11 Bomore Road survived post-war redevelopment with a slight change in alignment (Notting Dale)
Bramley Road, W11 Bramley Road is the street in which Latimer Road station is situated (Notting Dale)
Bramley Road, W11 Bramley Road is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Dale)
Bridge Close, W10 Bridge Close is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (Notting Dale)
Cambridge Gardens, W10 Cambridge Gardens is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (Notting Dale)
Camelford Walk, W11 Camelford Walk is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Chesterton Road, W10 Chesterton Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (North Kensington)
Clarendon Walk, W11 Clarendon Walk is a walkway in a recent Notting Dale development (Notting Dale)
Clydesdale Road, W11 Clydesdale Road is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Codrington Mews, W11 This attractive L-shaped mews lies off Blenheim Crescent between Kensington Park Road and Ladbroke Grove (Notting Hill)
Colville Gardens, W11 Colville Gardens was laid out in the 1870s by the builder George Frederick Tippett, who developed much of the rest of the neighbourhood (Notting Hill)
Colville Houses, W11 Colville Houses is part of the Colville Conservation Area (Notting Hill)
Colville Square, W11 Colville Square is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Colville Terrace, W11 Colville Terrace, W11 has strong movie connnections (Notting Hill)
Convent Gardens, W11 Convent Gardens is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Cornwall Crescent, W11 Cornwall Crescent belongs to the third and final period of building on the Ladbroke estate (Notting Hill)
Cornwall Road, W11 Cornwall Road was once the name for the westernmost part of Westbourne Park Road (Notting Hill)
Crosfield Court, W10 Crosfield Court is a block on Crosfield Court (North Kensington)
Dale Row, W11 Dale Row is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Daley Thompson House, W11 Daley Thompson House is a block on Colville Square (Notting Hill)
Dulford Street, W11 Dulford Street survived the mass demolitions of the late 1960s (Notting Dale)
Dunworth Mews, W11 This is a street in the W11 postcode area (Notting Hill)
Elgin Crescent, W11 Elgin Crescent runs from Portobello Road west across Ladbroke Grove and then curls round to the south to join Clarendon Road (Notting Hill)
Elgin Mews, W11 Elgin Mews lies in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Fallodon House, W11 Fallodon House was planned in 1973 to replace housing between Tavistock Crescent, Tavistock Road, and St Luke’s Road (Westbourne Park)
Folly Mews, W11 Folly Mews is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Fowell Street, W11 Fowell Street, W10 was redeveloped in the 1970s (Notting Dale)
Golden Mews, W11 Golden Mews was a tiny mews off of Basing Street, W11 (Notting Hill)
Grenfell Road, W11 Grenfell Road follows the line of an old road: St Clement’s Road (Notting Dale)
Grenfell Tower, W11 Grenfell Tower is a residential block in North Kensington (Notting Dale)
Hayden’s Place, W11 Haydens Place is a small cul-de-sac off of the Portobello Road (Notting Hill)
Hurstway Street, W10 Hurstway Street ran from Barandon Street to Blechynden Street (Notting Dale)
Hurstway Walk, W11 This is a street in the W11 postcode area (Notting Dale)
Kensington Park Mews, W11 Kensington Park Mews lies off of Kensington Park Road (Notting Hill)
Kensington Park Road, W11 Kensington Park Road is one of the main streets in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Kingsdown Close, W10 Kingsdown Close is one of a select number of roads in London W10 lying south of Westway (Notting Dale)
Kingsnorth House, W10 Kingsnorth House is a block on Silchester Road (Notting Dale)
Ladbroke Crescent, W11 Ladbroke Crescent belongs to the third and final great period of building on the Ladbroke estate and the houses were constructed in the 1860s. (Notting Hill)
Ladbroke Gardens, W11 Ladbroke Gardens runs between Ladbroke Grove and Kensington Park Road (Notting Hill)
Ladbroke Grove, W11 Ladbroke Grove is the main street in London W11 (Notting Hill)
Lancaster Road, W11 Lancaster Road has been called London’s most Instagrammable street (Notting Hill)
Lowerwood Court, W11 Lowerwood Court is a block on Westbourne Park Road (Notting Hill)
Malton Mews, W10 Malton Mews, formerly Oxford Mews, runs south off of Cambridge Gardens (Notting Dale)
Malton Road, W11 Malton Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (Notting Dale)
Maxilla Gardens, W10 Maxilla Gardens was a former street in London W10 (Notting Dale)
McGregor Road, W11 McGregor Road runs between St Luke’s Road and All Saints Road (Notting Hill)
Millwood Street, W10 Millwood Street is one of the streets of London in the W10 postal area (North Kensington)
Norburn Street, W10 Norburn Street is one of the streets of London in the W10 postal area (North Kensington)
Oxford Gardens, W10 Oxford Gardens is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (North Kensington)
Pinehurst Court, W11 Pinehurst Court is a mansion block at 1-9 Colville Gardens (Notting Hill)
Portobello Court, W11 Portobello Court is a block on Portobello Court (Notting Hill)
Portobello Road, W10 Portobello Road is split into two sections by the Westway/Hammersmith and City line (North Kensington)
Portobello Road, W11 Portobello Road is internationally famous for its market (Notting Hill)
Powis Gardens, W11 Powis Gardens is a street in Notting Hill (Notting Hill)
Raddington Road, W10 Raddington Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (Notting Hill)
Rillington Place, W11 Rillington Place is a small street with an infamous history (Notting Dale)
Roseland Place, W11 Roseland Place was a short mews located at what is now 224/226 Portobello Road (Notting Hill)
Ruston Close, W11 Due to its infamy, Rillington Place was renamed to Ruston Close in 1954 (Notting Dale)
Ruston Mews, W11 Ruston Mews, W11 was originally Crayford Mews (Notting Dale)
Scampston Mews, W10 Scampston Mews is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (Notting Dale)
Silchester Road, W10 Silchester Road crosses the border between London W10 and London W11 (Notting Dale)
Silvester Mews, W11 Silvester Mews was a mews off of Basing Street, W11 (Notting Hill)
St Andrews Square, W11 St Andrews Square is a street in Notting Dale, formed when the Rillington Place area was demolished (Notting Dale)
St Charles Place, W10 St Charles Place is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (North Kensington)
St Charles Square, W10 St Charles Square is a street in North Kensington, London W10 (North Kensington)
St Columbs House, W10 St Columbs House is situated at 9-39 Blagrove Road (North Kensington)
St Joseph’s Close, W10 St Joseph’s Close is a cul-de-sac off of Bevington Road (North Kensington)
St Lawrence Terrace, W10 St Lawrence Terrace runs parallel with Ladbroke Grove, one block east (North Kensington)
St Lukes Mews, W11 St Lukes Mews is a mews off of All Saints Road, W11 (Notting Hill)
St Luke’s Road, W11 St Luke’s Road is a street in Notting Hill (Westbourne Park)
St Mark’s Road, W10 St Mark’s Road extends beyond the Westway into the W10 area (North Kensington)
St Mark’s Road, W11 St Mark’s Road is a street in the Ladbroke conservation area (Notting Dale)
St Mark’s Close, W11 St Mark’s Close runs off St Mark’s Road (Notting Dale)
St Mark’s Place, W11 St Mark’s Place is situated on the site of the former Kensington Hippodrome (Notting Hill)
St Michael’s Gardens, W10 St Michael’s Gardens lies to the south of St Michael’s Church (North Kensington)
Stanley Gardens Mews, W11 Stanley Gardens Mews existed between 1861 and the mid 1970s (Notting Hill)
Station Walk, W10 Station Walk is one of the streets of London in the W10 postal area (Notting Dale)
Talbot Mews, W11 Talbot Mews seems to have disappeared just after the Second Worid War (Notting Dale)
Tavistock Crescent, W11 Tavistock Crescent was where the first Notting Hill Carnival procession began on 18 September 1966. (Notting Hill)
Tavistock Mews, W11 Tavistock Mews, W11 lies off of the Portobello Road (Notting Hill)
Tavistock Road, W11 Tavistock Road was developed in the late 1860s alongside the Hammersmith and City railway line from Westbourne Park station (Notting Hill)
Testerton Street, W11 Testerton Street did not survive the bulldozer in the late 1960s (Notting Dale)
Thorpe Close, W10 Thorpe Close is a redevelopment of the former Thorpe Mews, laid waste by the building of the Westway (North Kensington)
Trinity Mews, W10 Trinity Mews lies off of Cambridge Gardens (Notting Dale)
Twisaday House, W11 Twisaday House is a block on Colville Square (Notting Hill)
Verity Close, W11 Verity Close is a street in W11 (Notting Dale)
Vernon Yard, W11 Vernon Yard is a mews off of Portobello Road (Notting Hill)
Wesley Square, W11 Wesley Square lies behind Notting Hill Methodist Church (Notting Dale)
Westway, W10 Westway is the A40(M) motorway which runs on an elevated section along the W10/W11 border (Notting Hill)
Whitstable House, W10 Whitstable House is a block on Silchester Road (Notting Dale)


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