Talgarth Road is the local name for that part of the A4 lying in West Kensington.
The main road was originally called North End Lane. Whilst upgraded and renamed Talgarth Road, before the coming of the Hammersmith Flyover, the road ended at a former section of Colet Gardens which then was a quiet suburban road.
To make way for preparation of the proposed flyover, Talgarth Road was widened around 1955.
Marples, Ridgway and Partners, a civil engineering contractor, completed the flyover in 1961 at a cost of £1.2 million. Talgarth Road at that point became part of the Cromwell Road Extension which rerouted the A4 and made it extremely busy.
A large part of the churchyard of St Paul’s Church, the parish church of Hammersmith, had to be cleared to allow the building of the flyover, and much of the churchyard wall and many of the graves were lost.
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Talgarth Road is the local name for that part of the A4 lying in West Kensington.
