The Central line platforms at Notting Hill Gate were opened on 30 July 1900 by the Central London Railway.
There were no deep-level tube lines anywhere a long way to the north during the Second World War. Therefore the platforms became a notable shelter during the London Blitz for the residents of Notting Hill and North Kensington.
Credit: The Underground Map
There were no deep-level tube lines anywhere a long way to the north during the Second World War. Therefore the platforms became a notable shelter during the London Blitz for the residents of Notting Hill and North Kensington.
Credit: The Underground Map
Linden Gardens was known as Linden Grove until 1877.
Linden Lodge, designed in 1826 by Thomas Allason, was the largest of the early houses built there, with its own lake, two acres of grounds, stables and a gardener’s cottage. It was eventually swept away to make way for the railway - the coming of the Metropolitan Railway in 1864-8 prompted the redevelopment of the five acre estate between 1871 and 1878.
William Mulready (1786-1863), designer of the penny postage envelope depicting Britannia, lived at Kensington Gravel Pits from 1811 to 1827 and then at Linden Grove from 1828 until his death. Mulready’s graduated from illustrating children’s books to humorous and sentimental genre painting.
In 1910, at the height of the Suffragette agitation, Sylvia Pankhurst was living at Mulready’s old address.
Fashion designer Ossie Clark (1942-96) lived here but later moved to Cambridge Gardens. At the time of his murder by his lover in 1996, he was living in Penzance Terrace.
49 Linden Gardens is the headquarters of several organisations representing Britain’s Ukrainian community.