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The main block of Blythe House, seen from Hazlitt Road, Olympia. Blythe House was built between 1899 and 1903 as the main office of the Post Office Savings Bank, which had outgrown its previous headquarter in Queen Victoria Street. By 1902 the Bank had 12,000 branches and more than 9 million accounts. Credit: Wiki Commons/Docben TUM image id: 1563264178 Licence:	The Great Wheel of Earl’s Court (1895-1906) TUM image id: 1711882262 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Cuthbert’s, Philbeach Gardens is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Earls Court. It was built between 1884 and 1887, designed by the architect Hugh Roumieu Gough (1843–1904) and hailed as a jewel of the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Credit: Wiki Commons/Trearddur72 TUM image id: 1631012517 Licence:	The Holland Arms on Kensington High Street, drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. The writer Joseph Addison was a frequent customer. Credit: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea TUM image id: 1623770043 Licence:	Colet House Credit: The Study Society TUM image id: 1605092347 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Tower House, Melbury Road, Kensington Constructed between 1876 and 1881, Tower House has an unique medieval design by fantasist and architect William Burges. Every room was decorated in accordance with a unique theme drawn from nature with rooms dedicated to themes such as the Sea, Animals, astronomy and astrology. In 1969, Richard Harris acquired the house and then in 1973 Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin outbid David Bowie and purchased it for £350 000. Page welcomed the cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger to move into his basement and complete the post-production of his movie Lucifer Rising. However, Anger soon grew weary of living in what he described as Page’s "evil fantasy house". Credit: Geograph/Jim Osley TUM image id: 1677337202 Licence:	Talgarth Road’s crossroad with North End Road prior to widening (1950s) Credit: Alisdair Macdonald TUM image id: 1605090780 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Latymer Court, W14 Latymer Court is a huge mansion block - at time of building in 1934 by Gordon Jeeves architects it was the largest block of its kind in Europe. Credit: Jamie Barras TUM image id: 1668005604 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Barons Keep is a gated community in West Kensington. Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1610031496 Licence:	The St Paul’s Studios block was aimed at the housing of ’bachelor artists’. These unmarried men would require a separate flat for their housekeepers and their artistic endeavours would require the large windows with natural light facing Colet Gardens. And it became so. The block was occupied within a year of being built by the very clientele it had been designed for. The block looked out onto a peaceful suburban scene until the turn of the 1960s. Quiet Colet Gardens, with its milk floats and schoolchildren, fell victim to the upgraded A4 scheme whereby the Cromwell Road was extended westwards to link to the Hammersmith Flyover via this very spot. Renamed as part of the Talgarth Road, the widened route became the main road west out of London towards Heathrow. Thundering lorries put paid to the artistic charms of St Paul’s Studios. Pictures is from the St Paul’s Studios 1891 sales brochure Credit: Building News magazine TUM image id: 1604753931 Licence:
Kensington Crescent (early 1900s) This was an unsuccessful development in the Warwick Gardens area. This picture depicts numbers 1-14 Kensington Crescent. Kenneth Grahame, author of ’Wind in the Willows’ lived for five years at number 5. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1692012794 Licence:	A view of the western section of Hammersmith Road, opposite what is now Latymer Court TUM image id: 1668006954 Licence: CC BY 2.0	For many years, and even though it appeared annually in the TV schedules, I had absolutely no idea where the Queen’s Tennis Club was. I eventually came across it while walking in the neighbourhood of Barons Court station, hidden away in the back streets. While preparing the video for one of my walks - the one between Barons Court and West Kensington - I had one of those ’blimey’ moments. A frequent comment on old photos on The Underground Map’s Facebook page is (and I paraphrase). "things have certainly changed since that was taken". Well, consider being a resident of Barons Court in the mid 1860s and then living there for the next thirty years. On the 1860s map, it’s a sea of market gardens. Your area is so remote that it hasn’t even got a name. Not so many houses are here although the Fulham Workhouse is a depressing reminder of the fickleness of fate. Then the District Railway arrives carving a route across the fields of turnips, carrots and lettuce. The local landowner has decided to speculate and has called his land ’Barons Court’ is anticipation of posh residents. A new station is built and so gets the name Barons Court too. Houses begin to fill the landscape - so much so that the mid 1890s map shows the arrival of acres of streets and development. Two tranches of land are set aside. One piece is kept to create the Margravine (or Hammersmith) Cemetery, established in 1868. A second area is reserved for a recreation ground which is then absorbed by the Queen’s Club (established 1886). This mid 1860s map shows the area where Barons Court station (BC) and West Kensington station (WK) will be built. The purple outline shows the future cemetery and the green outline the future Queen’s Club. This is one of the rare occasions in London where such plots do not exactly follow the former field boundaries. Credit: Ordnance Survey (1867) TUM image id: 1718865366 Licence: