Talbot Road straddles the W2/W11 postcodes.
The 1860s saw housing, which had ended in 1855 at St Stephen’s church and Hereford Road, spread to the Kensington boundary. By 1865 terraces lined westward extensions of Westbourne Grove and Westbourne Park Road, Artesian Road, and an eastward extension of the Portobello estate’s Talbot Road.
On Booth’s poverty map, the eastern end of Westbourne Gardens, with Porchester Square, and Gloucester, Porchester, and Orsett terraces, was wealthy, as was Bishop’s Road. Westbourne Park Villas and Road, with Hereford Road and other streets running south, were well-to-do, as was Westbourne Grove. Talbot Road and other streets running to the Kensington boundary were well-to-do or fairly comfortable, with poverty in some mews dwellings.
The early 20th century saw a more general, if slow, decline. By 1919 many large houses on the western edge of the borough around Talbot Road were empty or subdivided.
