Brittania

The Brittania disappeared as Trellick Tower began to take shape.

The church at the top of East Row
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Situated at 1 Golborne Road, it was a Trumans pub.

Its name commemorates the former Brittania Road (now Golborne Road) and stood on the corner of a former section of Kensal Road which also went under the bulldozer.

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Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Roy Batham Notting Dale Added: 7 Jan 2022 05:50 GMT	Batham Family (1851 - 1921) I start with William Batham 1786-1852 born in St.Martins Middlesex. From various sources I have found snippets of information concerning his early life. A soldier in 1814 he married Mary Champelovier of Huguenot descent By 1819 they were in Kensington where they raised 10 children. Apart from soldier his other occupations include whitesmith, bell hanger and pig breeder. I find my first record in the 1851 English sensus. No street address is given, just ’The Potteries’. He died 1853. Only one child at home then George Batham 1839-1923, my great grandfather. By 1861 he is living in Thomas St. Kensington with his mother. A bricklayer by trade 1871, married and still in Thomas St. 1881 finds him in 5,Martin St. Kensington. 1891 10,Manchester St. 1911, 44 Hunt St Hammersmith. Lastly 1921 Census 7, Mersey St. which has since been demolished. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply
Tom Vague 3 Acklam Road Added: 9 Sep 2020 14:02 GMT	The Bedford family at 3 Acklam Road (1860 - 1965) From the 19th century up until 1965, number 3 Acklam Road, near the Portobello Road junction, was occupied by the Bedford family. When the Westway construction work began the Bedfords sold up and moved to south London. In the early 1970s the house was taken over by the North Kensington Amenity Trust and became the Notting Hill Carnival office before its eventual demolition. Anne Bedford (now McSweeney) has fond memories of living there, although she recalls: ‘I now know that the conditions were far from ideal but then I knew no different. There was no running hot water, inside toilet or bath, apart from the tin bath we used once a week in the large kitchen/dining room. Any hot water needed was heated in a kettle. I wasn’t aware that there were people not far away who were a lot worse off than us, living in poverty in houses just like mine but families renting one room. We did have a toilet/bathroom installed in 1959, which was ‘luxury’. ‘When the plans for the Westway were coming to light, we were still living in the house whilst all the houses opposite became empty and boarded up one by one. We watched all this going on and decided that it was not going to be a good place to be once the builders moved in to demolish all the houses and start work on the elevated road. Dad sold the house for a fraction of what it should have been worth but it needed too much doing to it to bring it to a good living standard. We were not rich by any means but we were not poor. My grandmother used to do her washing in the basement once a week by lighting a fire in a big concrete copper to heat the water, which would have been there until demolition. ‘When we moved from number 3, I remember the upright piano that my grandparents used to play �’ and me of sorts �’ being lowered out of the top floor and taken away, presumably to be sold. I used to play with balls up on the wall of the chemist shop on the corner of Acklam and Portobello. We would mark numbers on the pavement slabs in a grid and play hopscotch. At the Portobello corner, on one side there was the Duke of Sussex pub, on the other corner, a chemist, later owned by a Mr Fish, which I thought was amusing. When I was very young I remember every evening a man peddling along Acklam Road with a long thin stick with which he lit the streetlights.’ Michelle Active who lived at number 33 remembers: ‘6 of us lived in a one-bed basement flat on Acklam Road. When they demolished it we moved to a 4-bed maisonette on Silchester Estate and I thought it was a palace, two toilets inside, a separate bathroom that was not in the kitchen, absolute heaven.’ Reply
EMC Ossington Street, W8 Added: 10 Jul 2023 22:35 GMT	Ossington Street, W8 correcting the date on my existing comment Source: Paddington: Bayswater \| British History Online Reply
Brenda Jackson Granville Road, NW6 Added: 13 Aug 2017 21:39 GMT	83 Pembroke Road My Gt Gt grandparents lived at 83 Pembroke Road before it became Granville Road, They were married in 1874, John Tarrant and Maryann Tarrant nee Williamson. Her brother George Samuel Williamson lived at 95 Pembroke Road with his wife Emily and children in the 1881 Census Apparently the extended family also lived for many years in Alpha Place, Canterbury Road, Peel Road, Reply
Susan Wright Bramley Mews Added: 16 Sep 2017 22:42 GMT	Ada Crowe, 9 Bramley Mews My Great Grandmother Ada Crowe was born in 9 Bramley Mews in 1876. Reply
Fumblina Lancefield Street, W10 Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:13 GMT	St Jude’s Church, Lancefield Street Saint Jude’s was constructed in 1878, while the parish was assigned in 1879 from the parish of Saint John, Kensal Green (P87/JNE2). The parish was united with the parishes of Saint Luke (P87/LUK1) and Saint Simon (P87/SIM) in 1952. The church was used as a chapel of ease for a few years, but in 1959 it was closed and later demolished. The church is visible on the 1900 map for the street on the right hand side above the junction with Mozart Street. Source: SAINT JUDE, KENSAL GREEN: LANCEFIELD STREET, WESTMINSTER \| Londo Reply
The Underground Map 1879 Royal Agricultural Society Added: 24 Nov 2020 14:25 GMT	The 1879 Agricultural Show The 1879 Royal Agricultural Society of England’s annual show was held on an area which later became Queen’s Park and opened on 30 June 1879. The show ran for a week but the poor weather meant people had to struggle through deep mud and attendances fell disastrously. The visit to the show by Queen Victoria on the fifth day rallied visitors and nearly half the people who visited the show went on that day. Reply
Fumblina Lancefield Street, W10 Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:08 GMT	Wedding at St Jude’s Church On 9th November 1884 Charles Selby and Johanna Hanlon got married in St Jude’s Church on Lancefield Street. They lived together close by at 103 Lancefield Street. Charles was a Lather, so worked in construction. He was only 21 but was already a widower. Johanna is not shown as having a profession but this is common in the records and elsewhere she is shown as being an Ironer or a Laundress. It is possible that she worked at the large laundry shown at the top of Lancefield Road on the 1900 map. She was also 21. She was not literate as her signature on the record is a cross. The ceremony was carried out by William Hugh Wood and was witnessed by Charles H Hudson and Caroline Hudson. Source: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31280_197456-00100?pId=6694792 Reply
Joan Clarke Mary Place Workhouse Added: 2 Feb 2021 10:54 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens My late aunt Ivy Clarke (nee Burridge) lived with her whole family at 19 Avondale Park Gardens, according to the 1911 census and she was still there in 1937.What was it like in those days, I wonder, if the housing was only built in 1920? Reply
The Underground Map Kilburn Park Added: 8 Mar 2021 14:30 GMT	Kilburn Park - opened 1915 Kilburn Park station was opened at the height of the First World War Reply
PETER FAIRCLOUGH Brindley Street, W2 Added: 10 May 2021 14:46 GMT	We once lived here My family resided at number 53 Brindley Street Paddington. My grandparents George and Elizabeth Jenkinson (ne Fowler) had four children with my Mother Olive Fairclough (ne Jenkinson) being born in the house on 30/09/1935. She died on 29/04/2021 aged 85 being the last surviving of the four siblings Reply
David Jones-Parry McGregor Road, W11 Added: 7 Sep 2017 12:13 GMT	Mcgregor Road, W11 (1938 - 1957) I was born n bred at 25 Mc Gregor Rd in 1938 and lived there until I joined the Royal Navy in 1957. It was a very interesting time what with air raid shelters,bombed houses,water tanks all sorts of areas for little boys to collect scrap and sell them on.no questions asked.A very happy boyhood -from there we could visit most areas of London by bus and tube and we did. Reply
Dave Fahey Jack of Newbury Added: 6 Jan 2021 02:40 GMT	Bombing of the Jack O Newberry My maternal grandfather, Archie Greatorex, was the licensee of the Earl of Warwick during the Second World War. My late mother Vera often told the story of the bombing of the Jack. The morning after the pub was bombed, the landlord’s son appeared at the Warwick with the pub’s till on an old pram; he asked my grandfather to pay the money into the bank for him. The poor soul was obviously in shock. The previous night, his parents had taken their baby down to the pub cellar to shelter from the air raids. The son, my mother never knew his name, opted to stay in his bedroom at the top of the building. He was the only survivor. I often wondered what became of him. Reply
Brenda Newton Hewer Street, W10 Added: 5 Jun 2021 07:17 GMT	Hewer Street W10 John Nodes Undertakers Hewer Street W10 Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Peter Gambia Street, SE1 Added: 4 Dec 2023 07:05 GMT	Gambia Street, SE1 Gambia Street was previously known as William Street. Reply
Eileen Brecknock Road, N7 Added: 10 Nov 2023 09:42 GMT	Brecknock Road Pleating Company My great grandparents ran the Brecknock Road pleating Company around 1910 to 1920 and my Grandmother worked there as a pleater until she was 16. I should like to know more about this. I know they had a beautiful Victorian house in Islington as I have photos of it & of them in their garden. Source: Family history Reply
Squirrel’s Lane, IG9 Added: 6 Nov 2023 16:59 GMT	061123 Why do Thames Water not collect the 15 . Three meter lengths of blue plastic fencing, and old pipes etc. They left here for the last TWO Years, these cause an obstruction,as they halfway lying in the road,as no footpath down this road, and the cars going and exiting the park are getting damaged, also the public are in Grave Danger when trying to avoid your rubbish and the danger of your fences. Source: Squirrels Lane. Buckhurst Hill, Essex. IG9. I want some action ,now, not Excuses.MK. Reply
Christian Cornwall Road, W11 Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT	Cornwall Road, W11 Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road. Reply
Vik Oaks Road, TW6 Added: 30 Oct 2023 18:48 GMT	Old pub sign from the Rising Sun Hi I have no connection to the area except that for the last 30+ years we’ve had an old pub sign hanging on our kitchen wall from the Rising Sun, Stanwell, which I believe was / is on the Oaks Rd. Happy to upload a photo if anyone can tell me how or where to do that! Reply
Phillip Martin Ashburnham Place, SE10 Added: 16 Oct 2023 06:25 GMT	16 Ashburnham Road On 15 October 1874 George Frederick Martin was born in 16 Ashburnham Road Greenwich to George Henry Martin, a painter, and Mary Martin, formerly Southern. Reply
Christine Bithrey Holly Park, N4 Added: 15 Oct 2023 15:20 GMT	The Hollies (1860 - 1900) I lived in Holly Park Estate from 1969 I was 8 years old when we moved in until I left to get married, my mother still lives there now 84. I am wondering if there was ever a cemetery within The Hollies? And if so where? Was it near to the Blythwood Road end or much nearer to the old Methodist Church which is still standing although rather old looking. We spent most of our childhood playing along the old dis-used railway that run directly along Blythwood Road and opposite Holly Park Estate - top end which is where we live/ed. We now walk my mothers dog there twice a day. An elderly gentleman once told me when I was a child that there used to be a cemetery but I am not sure if he was trying to scare us children! I only thought about this recently when walking past the old Methodist Church and seeing the flag stone in the side of the wall with the inscription of when it was built late 1880 If anyone has any answers please email me [email protected] Reply
Chris hutchison Broadhurst Gardens, NW6 Added: 15 Oct 2023 03:04 GMT	35 broadhurst gardens. 35 Broadhurst gardens was owned by famous opera singer Mr Herman “Simmy”Simberg. He had transformed it into a film and recording complex. There was a film and animation studio on the ground floor. The recording facilities were on the next two floors. I arrived in London from Australia in 1966 and worked in the studio as the tea boy and trainee recording engineer from Christmas 1966 for one year. The facility was leased by an American advertising company called Moreno Films. Mr Simbergs company Vox Humana used the studio for their own projects as well. I worked for both of them. I was so lucky. The manager was another wonderful gentleman called Jack Price who went on to create numerous songs for many famous singers of the day and also assisted the careers of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. “Simmy” let me live in the bedsit,upper right hand window. Jack was also busy with projects with The Troggs,Bill Wyman,Peter Frampton. We did some great sessions with Manfred Mann and Alan Price. The Cream did some demos but that was before my time. We did lots of voice over work. Warren Mitchell and Ronnie Corbett were favourites. I went back in 1978 and “Simmy “ had removed all of the studio and it was now his home. His lounge room was still our studio in my minds eye!! Reply

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Acklam Road protests Acklam Road was the centre of much action during the building of the Westway.

Acklam Road protests

Adair Road before redevelopment (1964) A photo showing Adair Road’s junction with Golborne Gardens in March 1964.

Adair Road before redevelopment (1964)

Adair Road junction with Southam Street (1932) A wet day in London W10.

Adair Road junction with Southam Street (1932)

Corner of Rackham Street, Ladbroke Grove (1950) The bombing of the Second World War meant that some whole streets were wiped off the future map. Rackham Street, in London W10, was one of them.

Corner of Rackham Street, Ladbroke Grove (1950)

Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance is the traditional starting point for the Notting Hill Carnival.

Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance

Harrow Road (1920s) Harrow Road in the 1920s, looking south east towards the Prince of Wales pub and the Emmanuel Church spire.

Harrow Road (1920s)

Jack of Newbury The Jack of Newbury stood at the corner of East Row and Kensal Road until it was bombed on 2 October 1940.

Jack of Newbury

Ladbroke Grove (1950) Ladbroke Grove on the corner of St Charles Sqaure taken outside the Eagle public house, looking north, just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Ladbroke Grove (1950)

Lads of the Village One of the signature public houses along Kensal Road.

Lads of the Village

Middle Row School Middle Row School was established in the late 19th century to provide education to the children of Kensal New Town.

Middle Row School

Orme’s Green Ormes Green was the former name for this part of Westbourne Park.

Orme’s Green

Portobello Arms The Portobello Arms was a former pub in Kensal Town, established in 1842.

Portobello Arms

Portobello Farm Portobello Farm House was approached along Turnpike Lane, sometimes referred to as Green’s Lane, a track leading from Kensington Gravel Pits towards a wooden bridge over the canal.

Portobello Farm

Queen’s Park Library Queen’s Park Library was built to improve the minds of the new Queen’s Park Estate residents.

Queen’s Park Library

Rackham Street, eastern end (1950) The bombing of the Second World War meant that some whole streets were wiped off the future map. Rackham Street, in London W10, was one of them.

Rackham Street, eastern end (1950)

St Charles Square ready for redevelopment (1951) Photographed in 1951, the corner of St Charles Square and Ladbroke Grove looking northwest just after the Second World War.

St Charles Square ready for redevelopment (1951)

St. Joseph’s Home St Joseph's dominated a part of Portobello Road up until the 1980s.

St. Joseph’s Home

The Crown Acklam Road was the centre of much action during the building of the Westway

The Crown

The Eagle The Eagle is on the corner of Ladbroke Grove and Telford Road.

The Eagle

The Flora The Flora is situated on Harrow Road, W10.

The Flora

The Foresters The Foresters - a lost pub of London W10

The Foresters

The Mitre The Mitre was situated at 62 Golborne Road on the corner with Wornington Road.

The Mitre

The Prince of Wales Cinema The Prince of Wales Cinema was located at 331 Harrow Road.

The Prince of Wales Cinema

Wedlake Street Baths In a time when most had somewhere to live but few had somewhere to wash at home, public baths were the place to go...

Wedlake Street Baths

Weston’s Cider House In 1930 Weston’s opened their first and only cider mill on the Harrow Road.

Weston’s Cider House

William Miller’s Yard William Miller's Yard stood in Chapel Place, West Row.

William Miller’s Yard

Windsor Castle The Windsor Castle dates from the 1820s but its main incarnation was as a classic Victorian public house, seminal in 1970s musical history.

Windsor Castle

NEARBY STREETS

Abinger Mews, W9 Abinger Mews is a street in Maida Vale.

Abinger Mews, W9

Absalom Road, W10 Absalom Road was the former name for the western section of Golborne Gardens.

Absalom Road, W10

Acklam Road, W10 Acklam Road was the centre of much action during the building of the Westway.

Acklam Road, W10

Adair Road, W10 Adair Road is a street on the Kensal Town/North Kensington borders.

Adair Road, W10

Adair Tower, W10 Adair Tower is a post-war tower block on the corner of Adair Road and Appleford Road, W10.

Adair Tower, W10

Adela Street, W10 Adela Street is a small cul-de-sac in Kensal Town.

Adela Street, W10

Alderson Street, W10 Alderson Street is a side street north of Kensal Road.

Alderson Street, W10

Alperton Street, W10 Alperton Street is the first alphabetically named street in the Queen’s Park Estate, W10.

Alperton Street, W10

Angola Mews, W10 Angola Mews, one of the lost mews of North Kensington, was demolished to make way for the Bevington Road School.

Angola Mews, W10

Appleford House, W10 Appleford House is a residential block along Appleford Road.

Appleford House, W10

Appleford Road, W10 Appleford Road was transformed post-war from a Victorian street to one dominated by housing blocks.

Appleford Road, W10

Ash House, W10 Ash House is a block on Heather Walk.

Ash House, W10

Athlone Place, W10 Athlone Place runs between Faraday Road and Bonchurch Road.

Athlone Place, W10

Barfett Street, W10 Barfett Street is a street on the Queen’s Park Estate, W10

Barfett Street, W10

Barnsdale Road, W9 Barnsdale Road runs between Fernhead Road and Walterton Road.

Barnsdale Road, W9

Bevington Road, W10 Bevington Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10

Bevington Road, W10

Birch House, W10 Birch House is a block on Droop Street.

Birch House, W10

Bonchurch Road, W10 Bonchurch Road was first laid out in the 1870s.

Bonchurch Road, W10

Bosworth Road, W10 Bosworth Road was the first street built as Kensal New Town started to expand to the east.

Bosworth Road, W10

Briar Walk, W10 Briar Walk lies on the Queen's Park Estate

Briar Walk, W10

Buckshead House, W2 Buckshead House is a block on Great Western Road.

Buckshead House, W2

Burlington Close, W9 Burlington Close is a street in Maida Vale.

Burlington Close, W9

Chippenham Road, W9 Chippenham Road is a street in Maida Vale.

Chippenham Road, W9

Clayton Yard, Clayton Yard ran off the west side of West Row.

Clayton Yard,

Conlan Street, W10 Conlan Street is one of the newer roads of Kensal Town.

Conlan Street, W10

Coomassie Road, W9 Coomassie Road is a street in Maida Vale.

Coomassie Road, W9

Derrycombe House, W2 Derrycombe House is a block on Great Western Road.

Derrycombe House, W2

Drakeland House, W9 Drakeland House is a block on Fernhead Road.

Drakeland House, W9

Drayford Close, W9 Drayford Close is a street in Maida Vale.

Drayford Close, W9

Droop House, W10 Droop House is a block on Droop Street.

Droop House, W10

Droop Street, W10 Droop Street is one of the main east-west streets of the Queen’s Park Estate.

Droop Street, W10

East Row, W10 East Row is a road with a long history within Kensal Town.

East Row, W10

Edenham Mews, W10 Edenham Mews was the site of a youth club and day nursery after the Second World War until demolition.

Edenham Mews, W10

Edenham Street, W10 Edenham Street was swept away in 1969.

Edenham Street, W10

Edenham Way, W10 Edenham Way is a 1970s street.

Edenham Way, W10

Elkstone Road, W10 Elkstone Road replaced Southam Street around 1970.

Elkstone Road, W10

Elm House, W10 Elm House can be found on Briar Walk.

Elm House, W10

Enbrook Street, W10 Enbrook Street is another street north of Harrow Road, W10 without a pub.

Enbrook Street, W10

Faraday Road, W10 Faraday Road is one of the ’scientist’ roadnames of North Kensington.

Faraday Road, W10

Fermoy House, W9 Fermoy House can be found on Fermoy Road.

Fermoy House, W9

Fermoy Road, W9 Fermoy Road was named in 1883 and partly built up by 1884

Fermoy Road, W9

Fernhead Road, W9 Fernhead Road is a street in Maida Vale.

Fernhead Road, W9

Fir House, W10 Fir House can be found on Droop Street.

Fir House, W10

First Avenue, W10 First Avenue is street number one in the Queen's Park Estate

First Avenue, W10

Golborne Gardens, W10 Golborne Gardens may date from the 1880s.

Golborne Gardens, W10

Golborne Mews, W10 Golborne Mews lies off of the Portobello Road, W10.

Golborne Mews, W10

Golborne Road, W10 Golborne Road, heart of North Kensington, was named after Dean Golbourne, at one time vicar of St John’s Church in Paddington.

Golborne Road, W10

Great Western Road, W11 The name of the Great Western Road dates from the 1850s.

Great Western Road, W11

Great Western Road, W9 Great Western Road’s northernmost section was created after a bridge was constructed over the canal.

Great Western Road, W9

Harrow Road, W10 Harrow Road is a main road through London W10.

Harrow Road, W10

Harrow Road, W9 Harrow Road is a main road running through Paddington, Willesden and beyond.

Harrow Road, W9

Hawthorn Walk, W10 Queen's Park Estate

Hawthorn Walk, W10

Hazlewood Crescent, W10 Hazlewood Crescent, much altered by 1970s redevelopment, is an original road of the area.

Hazlewood Crescent, W10

Hazlewood Tower, W10 Hazlewood Tower is a skyscraper in North Kensington, London W10.

Hazlewood Tower, W10

Heather Walk, W10 Heather Walk lies in the Queen’s Park Estate

Heather Walk, W10

Hermes Close, W9 Hermes Close is a street in Maida Vale.

Hermes Close, W9

Holly House, W10 Holly House is a block on Hawthorn Walk.

Holly House, W10

Hormead Road, W9 Hormead Road was named in 1885 although its site was still a nursery ground until 1891.

Hormead Road, W9

James Collins Close, W9 James Collins Close is a street in Maida Vale.

James Collins Close, W9

James House, W10 James House is a residential block in Appleford Road.

James House, W10

Kensal Place, W10 Kensal Place ran from Southam Street to Kensal Road.

Kensal Place, W10

Kensal Road, W10 Kensal Road, originally called Albert Road, is the heart of Kensal Town.

Kensal Road, W10

Ladbroke Grove, W10 Ladbroke Grove runs from Notting Hill to Kensal Green, and straddles the W10 and W11 postal districts.

Ladbroke Grove, W10

Larch House, W10 Larch House is a block on Rowan Walk.

Larch House, W10

Lavie Mews, W10 Lavie Mews, W10 was a mews connecting Portobello Road and Murchison Road.

Lavie Mews, W10

Lionel Mews, W10 Lionel Mews was built around 1882 and probably disappeared in the 1970s.

Lionel Mews, W10

Lydford Road, W9 Lydford Road is a street in Maida Vale.

Lydford Road, W9

Manchester Drive, W10 Manchester Drive is one of the streets of London in the W10 postal area.

Manchester Drive, W10

Mary Seacole House, W9 Mary Seacole House is a block on Warlock Road.

Mary Seacole House, W9

Middle Row, W10 Middle Row is one of the original streets laid out as Kensal New Town.

Middle Row, W10

Modena Street, W9 Modena Street was swept away in the late 1960s.

Modena Street, W9

Morgan Road, W10 Morgan Road connects Wornington Road and St Ervans Road.

Morgan Road, W10

Munro Mews, W10 Munro Mews is a part cobbled through road that connects Wornington Road and Wheatstone Road.

Munro Mews, W10

Murchison Road, W10 Murchison Road existed for just under 100 years.

Murchison Road, W10

Norburn Street, W10 Norburn Street is one of the streets of London in the W10 postal area.

Norburn Street, W10

Oak House, W10 Oak House is sited on Sycamore Walk.

Oak House, W10

Orchard Close, W10 Orchard Close is one of the streets of London in the W10 postal area.

Orchard Close, W10

Pennymore Walk, W9 Pennymore Walk is a close which lies off of Ashmore Road.

Pennymore Walk, W9

Pine House, W10 Pine House is a block on Droop Street.

Pine House, W10

Portobello Road, W10 Portobello Road is split into two sections by the Westway/Hammersmith and City line.

Portobello Road, W10

Pressland Street, W10 Pressland Street ran from Kensal Road to the canal.

Pressland Street, W10

Rendle Street, W10 Rendle Street ran from Murchison Road to Telford Road.

Rendle Street, W10

Riverton Close, W9 Riverton Close is a street in Maida Vale.

Riverton Close, W9

Second Avenue, W10 Second Avenue is one of the streets of the Queen's Park Estate, W10

Second Avenue, W10

Shirland Mews, W9 Shirland Mews is a street in Maida Vale.

Shirland Mews, W9

Southam House, W10 Southam House is situated on Adair Road.

Southam House, W10

Southam Street, W10 Southam Street was made world-famous in the photographs of Roger Mayne.

Southam Street, W10

Southern Row, W10 Southern Row was originally South Row to match the other streets in the neighbourhood.

Southern Row, W10

St Charles Place, W10 St Charles Place is a street in North Kensington, London W10

St Charles Place, W10

St Columbs House, W10 St Columbs House is situated at 9-39 Blagrove Road.

St Columbs House, W10

St Ervans Road, W10 St Ervans Road is named after the home town of the Rev. Samuel Walker.

St Ervans Road, W10

St Joseph’s Close, W10 St Joseph’s Close is a cul-de-sac off of Bevington Road.

St Joseph’s Close, W10

St Michael’s Gardens, W10 St Michael’s Gardens lies to the south of St Michael’s Church.

St Michael’s Gardens, W10

Sycamore Walk, W10 Queen's Park Estate

Sycamore Walk, W10

Telford Road, W10 Telford Road is one of the local streets named after prominent nineteenth century scientists.

Telford Road, W10

Tollbridge Close, W10 This is a street in the W10 postcode area

Tollbridge Close, W10

Trellick Tower, W10 Trellick Tower is a 31-storey block of flats designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ernő Goldfinger, completed in 1972.

Trellick Tower, W10

Walterton Road, W9 Walterton Road was the central road of a suburb which was originally proposed to called St. Peter’s Park.

Walterton Road, W9

Warlock Road, W9 Warlock Road is a street in Maida Vale.

Warlock Road, W9

Wedlake Street, W10 Wedlake Street arrived as the second wave of building in Kensal Town was completed.

Wedlake Street, W10

Western Mews, W9 Western Mews is a street in Maida Vale.

Western Mews, W9

Wheatstone Road, W10 Wheatstone Road was the former name of the eastern section of Bonchurch Road.

Wheatstone Road, W10

Windsor Gardens, W9 Windsor Gardens is a street in Maida Vale.

Windsor Gardens, W9

Woodfield Crescent, W9 Woodfield Crescent was a former street in London W9.

Woodfield Crescent, W9

Woodfield Place, W9 Woodfield Place is a street in Maida Vale.

Woodfield Place, W9

Woodfield Road, W9 The first section of Woodfield Road seems to date from the 1830s.

Woodfield Road, W9

Wornington Road, W10 Wornington Road connected Golborne Road with Ladbroke Grove, though the Ladbroke end is now closed to through traffic.

Wornington Road, W10

NEARBY PUBS

Albion The Albion stopped being a pub early.

Albion

Earl of Warwick The Earl of Warwick stood at 36 Golborne Road.

Earl of Warwick

Jack of Newbury The Jack of Newbury stood at the corner of East Row and Kensal Road until it was bombed on 2 October 1940.

Jack of Newbury

Lads of the Village One of the signature public houses along Kensal Road.

Lads of the Village

Portobello Arms The Portobello Arms was a former pub in Kensal Town, established in 1842.

Portobello Arms

Pub location

Sporting Club De Londres

The Eagle The Eagle is on the corner of Ladbroke Grove and Telford Road.

The Eagle

The Earl Derby The Earl Derby stood on the corner of Southern Row and Bosworth Road.

The Earl Derby

The Flora The Flora is situated on Harrow Road, W10.

The Flora

The Foresters The Foresters - a lost pub of London W10

The Foresters

The Metropolitan

The Mitre The Mitre was situated at 62 Golborne Road on the corner with Wornington Road.

The Mitre

The Prince of Wales A pub in Kensal Town

The Prince of Wales

Weston’s Cider House In 1930 Weston’s opened their first and only cider mill on the Harrow Road.

Weston’s Cider House

Windsor Castle The Windsor Castle dates from the 1820s but its main incarnation was as a classic Victorian public house, seminal in 1970s musical history.

Windsor Castle

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Kensal Town

Soapsuds Island

Kensal New Town was built between the Grand Central Canal (which opened in 1801) and the Great Western Railway line (opening in 1837) in the 1840s. It was built by a lawyer.

Single-storey cottages with gardens suitable for drying clothes were the first buildings and Kensal Road, Middle Row, West Row, East Row and Southern Row all appeared between 1841 and 1851. The rows of cottages quickly degenerated into a slum, mainly due to overcrowding, industrialisation and pollution.

The area was dominated by the Western Gas Company and Kensal Cemetery, which provided work but did little to improve the environment. Women were primarily involved in laundry work giving the area its nickname of ‘Soapsuds Island’.

The area was isolated from the rest of London at a time when Portobello Lane (now Portobello Road) was a muddy track sometimes impassable in bad weather.

Cut off from the municipal authorities it was left to charities to attempt to alleviate the social and health problems.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the cottage laundry industry began to be replaced by larger mechanized concerns.

In 1902 Charles Booth described it as, “Just as full of children and poverty as was the old woman’s dwelling in the nursery rhyme.” By this date the area had been transferred to the newly formed Royal Borough of Kensington. When the Piggeries and Potteries in Notting Dale were finally cleared in the early 20th century most of the displaced residents moved north into Golborne ward and Kensal.

By 1923 in the Southam Street area 140 houses contained some 2500 inhabitants. A series of evocative photographs by Roger Mayne in the 1950s showed that little had changed. It was only from the 1960s that the overcrowded and dilapidated terraces were cleared and replaced by social housing including Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower.

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Coronation street party, 1953. TUM image id: 1545250697 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The "Western" TUM image id: 1489498043 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Ladbroke Grove (1866) The future Kensington Park Hotel is the corner building on the left. The area beyond the railway bridge (now the Hammersmith and City Line) was still green fields at this stage TUM image id: 1513618275 Licence:	Clayton Arms TUM image id: 1453029104 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Earl Derby stood on the corner of Southern Row and Bosworth Road. The Earl Derby himself was Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby who fought at the battle of Bosworth. TUM image id: 1453372511 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Foresters TUM image id: 1453071112 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Lads of the Village pub TUM image id: 1556874496 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Prince of Wales TUM image id: 1556874951 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Admiral Blake (The Cowshed) Adjacent Admiral Mews was occupied by a series of sheds for cows. Drovers bringing their cattle to the London markets would house them in these sheds for the night, whilst they themselves found shelter and refreshment in the neighbouring tavern, which received a nickname alongside its official one. The exterior of the pub was featured in the early 2000s pub-based sitcom, "Time Gentlemen Please", written by Richard Herring and Al Murray. TUM image id: 1556888887 Licence:	Kensington Park Hotel TUM image id: 1453375720 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Middle Row School was constructed to provide education for the children of Kensal New Town. In 1877, an application was made to the Chelsea Vestry "to build a School House and premises. to be known as Middle Row Schools. Kensal Road by Messrs. Hook & Oldrey, builders..." The official opening took place on 19 August 1878. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1615381435 Licence:	The Albion, now in residential use. TUM image id: 1556404154 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Tabernacle is a Grade II*-listed building in Powis Square, W11 built in 1887 as a church. Photographed here in 2010. Credit: Asteuartw TUM image id: 1453285201 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Duke of Cornwall, Ledbury Road W11, around 1990. Later the Ledbury restaurant, holder of two Michelin Stars TUM image id: 1453282426 Licence:	The corner of Caird Street with Lancefield Street, Queen’s Park Estate. TUM image id: 1456818108 Licence:

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Coronation street party, 1953.
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The Earl Derby stood on the corner of Southern Row and Bosworth Road. The Earl Derby himself was Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby who fought at the battle of Bosworth.
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The Lads of the Village pub
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The Prince of Wales
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Middle Row School was constructed to provide education for the children of Kensal New Town. In 1877, an application was made to the Chelsea Vestry "to build a School House and premises. to be known as Middle Row Schools. Kensal Road by Messrs. Hook & Oldrey, builders..." The official opening took place on 19 August 1878.
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The Albion, now in residential use.
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The corner of Caird Street with Lancefield Street, Queen’s Park Estate.
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SARM Studios, a recording studio, was established by Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. They were originally known as Basing Street Studios. It has also been known in the past as Island Studios. SARM is an aconym of Sound and Recording Mobiles. At the studios, built inside a former church that had been deconsecrated, Blackwell recorded a number of artists there for Island Records, such as Iron Maiden, Bob Marley, Steve Winwood, Free, Bad Company, Robert Palmer, Jimmy Cliff, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, John Martyn, Mott the Hoople, Quintessence, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Sparks, Cat Stevens, Spooky Tooth, Traffic, If, Jethro Tull, the Average White Band, and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
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New flats featuring in a photo taken from Adair Road (1962)
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West end of Bevington Road, near to the Golborne Road junction - late 1950s or early 1960s.
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