Hyde Park, W2

Hyde Park, as well as being a park, is an address for some park-located buildings

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Parkers Row, SE1 Added: 9 Jan 2025 18:51 GMT	Parkers Row, SE1 My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor. Reply
Lindsay Trott Lockside, E14 Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT	Lockside not on 1939 Register I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register. Reply
Janelle Robbins Blossom Place, E1 Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT	Harriet Robbins Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins Reply
Dave Hinves Bacon Street, E1 Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT	he was a School Teacher Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed. Reply
Kevin Pont St George’s Square, SW1V Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT	St Georges Square This is rather lovely and well worth a visit! Reply
Simon Chapman Blossom Place, E1 Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT	Blossom Place My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square. Reply
Mark G Skidmore Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT	Skidmore Street, E1 Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street. Reply
Alan Russell Cheshire Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT	Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Metropolitan Borough of Westminster The Metropolitan Borough of Westminster was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.

Metropolitan Borough of Westminster

The Serpentine The Serpentine is a 40-acre (16 ha) recreational lake in Hyde Park.

The Serpentine

NEARBY STREETS

Corporate Communications Macmillan House, W2 Residential block (Bayswater)

Corporate Communications Macmillan House, W2

Entrance Macmillan House, W2 Residential block (Bayswater)

Entrance Macmillan House, W2

Hyde Park, W2 Hyde Park, as well as being a park, is an address for some park-located buildings (Bayswater)

Hyde Park, W2

Policeman’s Walk, W2 Policeman’s Walk is a road in the W2 postcode area (Bayswater)

Policeman’s Walk, W2

Policeman’s Walk, W2 Policeman’s Walk is a road in the W2 postcode area (Mayfair)

Policeman’s Walk, W2

Rotten Row, SW1X Rotten Row is a corruption of route du roi (Knightsbridge)

Rotten Row, SW1X

Rotten Row, SW7 Rotten Row is probably a corruption of ’Route du Roi’, the King’s Road (Knightsbridge)

Rotten Row, SW7

Serpentine Bridge, W2 Serpentine Bridge is a road in the W2 postcode area (Bayswater)

Serpentine Bridge, W2

Serpentine Road, W2 Serpentine Road is a street in Paddington (Bayswater)

Serpentine Road, W2

Serpentine Road, W2 Serpentine Road is a road in the SW7 postcode area (Bayswater)

Serpentine Road, W2

Serpentine Road, W2 Serpentine Road is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Bayswater)

Serpentine Road, W2

Serpentine Road, W2 Serpentine Road is a road in the W1K postcode area (Bayswater)

Serpentine Road, W2

West Carriage Drive, W2 West Carriage Drive is a road in the W2 postcode area (Bayswater)

West Carriage Drive, W2

West Carriage Drive, W2 West Carriage Drive is a road in the SW7 postcode area (Bayswater)

West Carriage Drive, W2

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Marble Arch, 2016 Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=352348 TUM image id: 1510054281 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Somerset House, Park Lane: house (right) and stables (centre) in 1912, from junction of Park Lane and Oxford Street. Credit: British History Online TUM image id: 1510057932 Licence:	Speaker’s Corner, April 1987 Speakers here at this corner of Hyde Park nearest of Marble Arch may talk on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed, but in practice the police intervene only when they receive a complaint. Credit: Wiki Commons/Michael E. Cumpston TUM image id: 1607876169 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Montagu House, Portman Square TUM image id: 1510140427 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A view of Tyburn (1750) Credit: Old and New London: Volume 5. Edward Walford (1878) TUM image id: 1510156812 Licence:
Harrods Department Store frontage as viewed along Brompton Rd at night (2012) Credit: David Liff TUM image id: 1557150671 Licence:	The White Hart Inn stood on Knightsbridge on the eastern bank of the River Westbourne, after the river emerged from the Serpentine. It was demolished in the 1840s to make way for Albert Gate. TUM image id: 1616534671 Licence:	Pakenham Tavern (1875) The tavern was situated at the eastern end of Raphael Street, just off Knightsbridge. It was known for its wild evenings but was pulled down in the 1950s. Credit: British History Online TUM image id: 1616533836 Licence:	Going Greek, Colindale Credit: IG/@going.greek TUM image id: 1583775118 Licence:	View of the old Rose and Crown in Knightsbridge (1857). Watercolour displayed at the British Museum. Credit: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd TUM image id: 1616543806 Licence:
The Serpentine Gallery with the 2008 Pavilion. Every year since 2000 the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens has commissioned a temporary summer pavilion by a leading architect. The series presents the work of an international architect or design team who has not completed a building in England at the time of the Gallery’s invitation. Each Pavilion is completed within six months and is situated on the Gallery’s lawn for three months for the public to explore. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1607872711 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Knightsbridge Chapel came into existence in association with the Leper Hospital there. Being on the London boundary, a legal loophole allowed it to perform many (sham) marriages, these declining after the 1670s. TUM image id: 1616535340 Licence:	Bayswater Road sign TUM image id: 1682605971 Licence:	The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, in Hyde Park, London (2006). Although described as an oval stone fountain, it has the form of a large, oval stream bed of about 50 by 80 metres. The 545 individual pieces of Cornish granite were cut by S. McConnell & Sons, in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. Credit: Wiki Commons/CGP Grey TUM image id: 1607944697 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Connaught Square, 2004 Credit: Andrew Dunn, TUM image id: 1510185099 Licence: CC BY 2.0