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Queensway (formerly Queen’s Road) is a cosmopolitan street in the Bayswater district, containing many restaurants and stores.

This part of Bayswater was first developed as a residential suburb in the early nineteenth century. The road at its southern end was maybe of Roman or earlier origin. The route continuing west from Oxford Street past Marble Arch, was known by the end of the eighteenth century as Uxbridge Road. It, in time, became Bayswater Road.

This road became a turnpike and a tollbooth was situated here. With traffic having to stop to pay the charge, a number of inns and other businesses became established before the 1830s.



The area at the bottom of Queensway (1829)
(click image to enlarge)


Running north from Uxbridge/Bayswater Road was a country track known as  Black Lion Lane/Blackman Lane. With the coming of the Great Western Railway and later the Metropolitan Railway at Royal Oak, the area began to urbanise from the north. Black Lion Lane, as it gained buildings, was renamed Queen’s Road in honour of Queen Victoria. She had been born in nearby Kensington Palace. With a trend in London to help our postal workers with the confusing duplicate names for streets, Queen's Road became Queensway later.

The first department store in London was opened by William Whiteley on the street in 1867. It was awarded a Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1896.

The facade of the store dates from 1911 - the building itself was demolished and rebuilt in 1989 and became the multi-storey Whiteleys Shopping Centre.

Queensway became a centre for the entertainment and leisure industry - London's biggest ice rink, the Queen's Ice & Bowl was built here.

Queensway and Westbourne Grove are identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.

Both Bayswater and Queensway stations are located on the street. Despite being on different lines, Bayswater and Queensway are extremely close to one another. Bayswater had opened in the 1860s and became a District Line station. Queensway opened on 30 July 1900, as Queen’s Road, and was renamed after the street on 9 September 1946.

The building is a survivor of the buildings designed for the Central London Railway (the Central Line) by Harry Bell Measures. It was built with a flat roof so that commercial development could take place above. A hotel was built.

 


Queen’s Road Station, Bayswater (c. 1916) by Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942) (click image to enlarge)


A 1916 oil painting of Bayswater tube station, when known as Queens Road (Bayswater), was painted by Walter Sickert. It features a man seated in a recess and an arrangement of colourful advertisements along a fictional depiction of a platform which mixed up the look of Queensway and Bayswater stations.




Main source: Wikipedia
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EMC   
Added: 10 Jul 2023 22:35 GMT   

Ossington Street, W8
correcting the date on my existing comment

Source: Paddington: Bayswater | British History Online

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EMC   
Added: 10 Jul 2023 22:31 GMT   

Correction re Ossington Street
In the Wikipedia date of 1837 for the renaming of Victoria Grove as Ossington Street, the two last figures appear to have been transposed from the likely source, London County Council, Names of Streets (1905) quoted in T F T Baker, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot, ’Paddington: Bayswater’, in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1989), pp. 204-212. British History Online ptth;:’www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp204-212 [accessed 10 July 2023]. "During the 1830s Victoria Grove (renamed Ossington Street in 1873) (fn. 48) was laid out from the Uxbridge road close to the boundary, on part of Gravel Pit field." This makes sense, as John Evelyn Denison, a former Speaker of the House of Commons, was created 1st Viscount Ossington in 1873.

Source: Paddington: Bayswater | British History Online

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

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Wendy    
Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT   

Polygon Buildings
Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings.

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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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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