The 150 acre Notting Barns farm, with ‘an ancient brick building surrounded by spacious barns and outhouses’, came into the possession of Colonel Matthew Chitty Downes St Quintin of the Lancers Regiment in the late 1850s. St Quintin proceeded to build a well-to-do estate, originally as the Portobello Park, featuring Cambridge and Oxford Gardens, Basset, …
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Islington Green, N1
Islington Green is both a small green and a series of roads which surround it.
Chapel Place, SE1
Chapel Place largely followed the modern route of Hankey Place.
Harrow Road, W10
Harrow Road is a main road through London W10.
Pavilion Theatre
The Pavilion Theatre at 191–193 Whitechapel Road was the first major theatre to open in the East End.
Going down the Lane
Another slum developed at Notting Hill Gate south of the road in the streets known as ‘the Racks’ (after the original field); Uxbridge, Newcombe, Calcott, Hillgate/Dartmoor, Farmer and Jameson. The main employer here would be the Dunhill cigarette factory on Uxbridge Street. As the Swan inn on Church Street became a gin palace, the Coach …
Gibraltar Walk, E2
Gibraltar Walk leads north from Bethnal Green Road.
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green – a happy corner
Cambridge Heath Road, E2
The route of Cambridge Heath Road, passing through Bethnal Green as a broad stretch of waste, was mentioned in the 1580s as the highway from Mile End to Hackney.
West Ruislip
West Ruislip is a station located between Ickenham and Ruislip. It is served by both London Underground and National Rail trains on independent platforms. It is the western terminus of the Central Line’s West Ruislip branch.