Sinclair Gardens, W14

Sinclair Gardens is a street in West Kensington.

Lord Holland Monument in Holland Park
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Milson Road, W14

Added: 17 May 2023 11:50 GMT

Milson Road (1908 - 1954)
My grandparents and great grandparents and great great grandparents the Manley family lived at 33 Milson Road from 1908 to 1935. My grandad was born at 33 Milson Road. His parents George and Grace had all four of their chidren there. When his father Edward died his mother moved to 67 Milson in 1935 Road and lived there until 1954 (records found so far, it may be longer). Before that they lived in the Porten Road. I wonder if there is anyone that used to know them? My grandad was Charles ’Ted’ Manley, his parents were called George and Grace and George’s parents were called Edward and Bessie. George worked in a garage and Edward was a hairdresser.

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The main block of Blythe House, seen from Hazlitt Road, Olympia. Blythe House was built between 1899 and 1903 as the main office of the Post Office Savings Bank, which had outgrown its previous headquarter in Queen Victoria Street. By 1902 the Bank had 12,000 branches and more than 9 million accounts. Credit: Wiki Commons/Docben TUM image id: 1563264178 Licence:	The St Agnes soup kitchen was situated on the corner of Bangor Street, W11 that this photo was taken from. Bangor Street disappeared from the streetscene of Notting Dale after the Second World War. Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1456741743 Licence:	HM Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother, with Lady Petrie, opening Henry Dickens Court, W11 (1953) The Queen Mother is greeted by large crowds and is accompanied by Lady Petrie, Mayor of Kensington. Henry Dickens Court was built by the Council on a bomb site as part of the borough’s post war redevelopment plan. It was named after Henry Dickens, grandson of Charles Dickens, an Alderman on the Council and an active advocate of municipal housing. Credit: Kensington Libraries TUM image id: 1627908621 Licence:	Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith (2013) Credit: Wiki Commons/Chmee2 TUM image id: 1668683030 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Stage hands at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith (1897) Later called the Lyric Theatre, it had been redesigned in 1895 and opened by Lille Langtry TUM image id: 1668694178 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Corner of Bangor Street and Sirdar Road, W11 (1911) This became the Dolphin Pub. The location was demolished to make way for the Henry Dickens Estate. Credit: London City Mission magazine TUM image id: 1456741533 Licence:	Abbotsbury Road, Holland Park (2008) These houses are just beside an entrance to Holland Park. Further along the road was the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi meditation centre visited by the Beatles in 1967. Credit: Geograph/David Hawgood TUM image id: 1623742620 Licence:	Guy Fawkes and friends in Addison Avenue, W11 (around 1960) TUM image id: 1623764668 Licence:	Addison Gardens, W14 Old London postcard TUM image id: 1623764925 Licence:	Addison Place Credit: Google Maps TUM image id: 1457274476 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Addison Road, W14 (1909) Addison Road takes its name from the essayist Joseph Addison who lived nearby at Holland House. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1623768752 Licence:	Ansleigh Place, W11 TUM image id: 1453967815 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Horse-drawn cab outside Hammersmith station in Beadon Road (1894) Staffords - the shop next to the station - repaired and sola umbrellas. TUM image id: 1668094349 Licence:	Colet House Credit: The Study Society TUM image id: 1605092347 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Dewhurst Road, Hammersmith Credit: Adam Raven (1952–2006), Hammersmith Library TUM image id: 1668731003 Licence:

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The main block of Blythe House, seen from Hazlitt Road, Olympia. Blythe House was built between 1899 and 1903 as the main office of the Post Office Savings Bank, which had outgrown its previous headquarter in Queen Victoria Street. By 1902 the Bank had 12,000 branches and more than 9 million accounts.
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Guy Fawkes and friends in Addison Avenue, W11 (around 1960)
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Addison Gardens, W14
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Addison Place
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Addison Road, W14 (1909) Addison Road takes its name from the essayist Joseph Addison who lived nearby at Holland House.
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Dewhurst Road, Hammersmith
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Brick makers in Hammersmith In the mid 19th century, the area from Brook Green to Shepherd’s Bush and east to Counter’s Creek was almost wholly devoted to brickmaking. Lakeside Road lay in the heart of the gravel pits between Shepherd’s Bush and Brook Green, known as the ’Ocean’ owing to its marshes and lying water caused by digging for brick clay.
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St Ann’s Villas, W11 looking south from St Ann’s Road towards Royal Crescent. The developer was Charles Stewart, a wealthy barrister who had served as an MP in the early 1830s. Between 1840 and 1846 he took building leases with his principal ventures being in Royal Crescent (where he had 43 houses) and St Ann’s Villas (34 houses). The Stewart Arms public house on Norland Road commemorates his name.
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Wilsham Street, W11 Charles Booth’s poverty map placed the Kensington Potteries among the "criminal and irreclaimable areas", largely on account of the overcrowded condition of its unsuitable and derelict houses. Five short streets in the district became known as the "Special Area.": Bangor Street, Crescent Street and three roads that have been renamed. St. Clement’s, now called Sirdar Road, St Katherine’s Road, now Wilsham Street, and William, now Kenley Street.
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The Wellington Arms, c. 1900 Tatcho (advertised on a hoarding) was a brand of hair restorer.
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