It was a freehold of the Dean and Chapter, and rented by the descendants of a Mr Gamble of Trinity Chapel. These modest two-storey dwellings, with narrow frontages, lined both sides of the ancient bridge and extended to Prospect Place. At their centre stood Trinity Chapel. Trinity Chapel belonged to an ancient lazar-house or hospital, held by the family of Glassington under the Abbey of Westminster in 1595. The chapel was rebuilt in 1629 and 1699, and repaired in 1789. It was entirely restored and remodelled in 1861 at a cost of £3300. It was demolished in 1904, when the French Embassy’s eastern wing occupied its plot.

In Knightsbridge Chapel marriages were performed without banns or license. A charity school, instituted about 1785, adjoined it until 1844, when it was removed.

The row included three establishments: the Queen’s Head (dating from 1576), White Hart and Fox Inn. Thomas Goding established the Cannon Brewery at the western end in 1796, expanding it to Prospect Place in 1830, destroying numerous small houses in the process. The brewery, whose emissions reportedly irritated the Duke of Wellington, made way for Albert Gate in 1842.

At the east end of Parkside stood stocks in 1805, and in 1835, close by, a watch-house and pound.

Shops were erected here about 1810.

In 1908, most remaining properties were replaced by an Edwardian block of flats, also named Parkside, designed by Hart and Green. The final houses at the eastern end, though refaced, endured until the 1960s construction of the underpass.