Anderson Street connects the King’s Road with Sloane Avenue.
Anderson Street was most likely named after John Anderson, a trustee of James Colvin, whose nursery ground was on the site of this street.
Lincoln Street and Coulson Street occupy the site of Colvill’s Nursery, one of the many nursery grounds which flourished beside the King’s Road until well into the nineteenth century.
James Colvill - there is now a Colville Arms in King’s Road - died in about 1843, bequeathing his property to Thomas Coulson, a Clerkenwell bootmaker, and his son James, a Hammersmith baker. The trustees appointed to administer and develop the estate were John Anderson of Old Church Street, Chelsea, and Stroud Lincoln of Brompton, who was involved in many building schemes in Chelsea and Kensington in the mid-nineteenth century.
Karl Marx lived for six months at 4 Anderson Street during 1848.
