January 2024 archive

Notting Hill Gate to Bayswater walk

The walk between Notting Hill Gate and Bayswater station begins at busy Notting Hill Gate itself but then gets rapidly quieter with a trip up Pembridge Gardens. Pembridge Gardens – dating from the 1850s – was developed by Francis and William Radford. Houses here were designed for the \”well-to-do\” with servant areas such as the …

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Stockwell to Vauxhall walk

This walk forms part of the northbound Victoria Line

North Wembley

North Wembley is an area of the London Borough of Brent, location of the Sudbury Court Estate.

Addison Gardens, W14

Addison Gardens stands on part of the Holland estate.

Dunk Street, E1

Dunk Street ran parallel to Great Garden Street (now Greatorex Street) to the west and King Edward Street, which has also ceased to exist, to the east.

Yalford Street, E1

Yalford Street was the name for New Street after 1874.

Elsiemaud Road, SE4

Elsiemaud Road was built in the late 1890s on the site of the farmhouse of Joy Farm.

Moorgate

Moorgate was one of the gates in the London Wall but was one of the later gates of London, dating from the early 15th century.

Baker Street

Baker Street is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world’s first underground railway, opened in 1863.

Lambeth North to Elephant & Castle walk

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