Holland Lane, W8

Holland Lane was a small side street next to the Holland Arms.

A longer Holland Lane once served Holland Farm and the modern Melbury Road followed the course of it. Holland Lane/Melbury Road skirted the front park of Holland House. A lodge had been built on the east side of Holland Lane (on the site of modern 41–45 Melbury Road) in 1864.

Holland Farm had shrunk in area as building activity progressed and by 1854, the farm was sixty-three acres, chiefly pasture. The farmhouse was rebuilt in 1859 (and later became 10A Holland Park Road). The parkland of Holland House provided pasture for the cows when all other available land had been built upon

By the time the estate was sold in 1874, Holland Farm brought in only £112 in rent. In 1875 the farm’s tenants, Edmund Charles Tisdall and Elizabeth Tunks, built a new dairy with a shop and cow-stalls on the island site bounded by Holland Lane, Melbury Road and Kensington High Street. It was demolished in the 1960s.

Also during the 1960s, the building firm Wates Ltd built a new block and Holland Lane disappeared from the map.

Main source:	Survey of London \| British History Online
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The Great Wheel of Earl’s Court (1895-1906) TUM image id: 1711882262 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Cuthbert’s, Philbeach Gardens is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Earls Court. It was built between 1884 and 1887, designed by the architect Hugh Roumieu Gough (1843–1904) and hailed as a jewel of the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Credit: Wiki Commons/Trearddur72 TUM image id: 1631012517 Licence:	The Churchill Arms, Kensington Credit: IG/lililondoner TUM image id: 1653837477 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Holland Arms on Kensington High Street, drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. The writer Joseph Addison was a frequent customer. Credit: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea TUM image id: 1623770043 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:
Abingdon Arms Pub, Abingdon Road. TUM image id: 1489943648 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:	Allen Street Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1593784668 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Boyne Terrace Mews, W11 TUM image id: 1453967964 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Pump attendant at a Lex Garage in Campden Hill Road, Kensington fills up for a customer (1952) In the 1950s, petrol pumps were still largely attached to garage workshops. People didn’t yet use the term “petrol station“ but instead “garage”. Credit: Kurt Hutton/Picture Post TUM image id: 1707482121 Licence:
Holland Park Avenue c.1900, looking west Credit: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea TUM image id: 1443739065 Licence:	Kenway Road (1970) Credit: British History Online TUM image id: 1678986487 Licence:	No. 6 (in the foreground) and No. 5 Lansdowne Mews in 2006, with Green’s Court beyond TUM image id: 1453888862 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Marloes Road, W8 TUM image id: 1530121229 Licence:	Tower House, Melbury Road, Kensington Constructed between 1876 and 1881, Tower House has an unique medieval design by fantasist and architect William Burges. Every room was decorated in accordance with a unique theme drawn from nature with rooms dedicated to themes such as the Sea, Animals, astronomy and astrology. In 1969, Richard Harris acquired the house and then in 1973 Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin outbid David Bowie and purchased it for £350 000. Page welcomed the cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger to move into his basement and complete the post-production of his movie Lucifer Rising. However, Anger soon grew weary of living in what he described as Page’s "evil fantasy house". Credit: Geograph/Jim Osley TUM image id: 1677337202 Licence:

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The Holland Arms on Kensington High Street, drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. The writer Joseph Addison was a frequent customer.
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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.
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Abingdon Arms Pub, Abingdon Road.
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Pump attendant at a Lex Garage in Campden Hill Road, Kensington fills up for a customer (1952) In the 1950s, petrol pumps were still largely attached to garage workshops. People didn’t yet use the term “petrol station“ but instead “garage”.
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Tower House, Melbury Road, Kensington Constructed between 1876 and 1881, Tower House has an unique medieval design by fantasist and architect William Burges. Every room was decorated in accordance with a unique theme drawn from nature with rooms dedicated to themes such as the Sea, Animals, astronomy and astrology. In 1969, Richard Harris acquired the house and then in 1973 Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin outbid David Bowie and purchased it for £350 000. Page welcomed the cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger to move into his basement and complete the post-production of his movie Lucifer Rising. However, Anger soon grew weary of living in what he described as Page’s "evil fantasy house".
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St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church, Allen Street (2008) Seen from the northwest at the junction with Scarsdale Villas
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This view shows Tyler the chemists during the 1960s on the corner of Abingdon Road and Scarsdale Villas. St Mark’s Coptic church is in the background.
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Redlynch Court, W14 is a block on the corner of Addison Crescent and Addison Road. The original house on the corner was bombed in the Second World War and subsequently demolished.
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Kensington Crescent (early 1900s) This was an unsuccessful development in the Warwick Gardens area. This picture depicts numbers 1-14 Kensington Crescent. Kenneth Grahame, author of ’Wind in the Willows’ lived for five years at number 5.
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