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Post to the north Westbourne Park - Ladbroke Grove
Addison Avenue
29 A garden
designed to be at its peak in July and August.
Aubiny Road
Aubiny House named after Aubrey de Vere last country house
in Kensington. Built as a well house
over a spring in 1690s. Private house
until 1850 when it was a school. Painted
by Whistler. Road built in 1859.
Aubrey Walk
Pumping
Station
of 1857-8 by Alexander Fraser for the Grand Union Junction Water Company
Aubrey House Its site was renowned
in the c 17 for the medicinal spring known as
Kensington Wells. The core of the house
probably belongs to one built adjoining
the spring c. 1698; its present appearance is owed to Sir Edward Lloyd,
15-17
The
accomplished classicist Raymond Erith designed on the site of former outbuildings, in 1950 for the
owners of Aubrey House.
St George
16a Galsworthy
Avondale Park
A pioneering amenity for the area.
Opened 1892 was then a vast pit of stinking slurry known as the
Ocean. Maintained
by the Vestry of Kensington.
Avondale Park Gardens
Council, 1919-22, small-scale terraces on a former
workhouse site.
Avondale Park Road
Small early improvement - cottage flats with pantiled
roofs planned in 1918 by W.H.
Raffles for E.J. Schuster -
council-owned by 1935
Avonmore Road
Avonmore Mansions reputed to be oldest purpose built block
in London 1880s
20 plaques with Crowns and VR is it an ex post office
51 Edward Elgar,
Blenheim Crescent
Blenheim Arms
12 M’s, previously Mike’s Café.
13 Travel Bookshop
15 Books for Cooks
11 Garden Books (Blenheim Books incorporating Garden
Books, as it is now known)
Harper and Tom's florist
Launderette. Potted garden above a good example of
resourceful and creative urban
gardening in the most confined of spaces.
Bolton Street
Market
Buckingham court
Camborne Mews
Tower block plan as in Lancaster Road was given up in
favour of more humane domestic developments built in the 1980s.
Camden Square
6/78 2.42" of rain fell in 40 minutes at the height
of this storm 1" in ten minutes.
Campden Grove
1 Kent
2 Young
13 Ross
28 plaque to
James Joyce 1882-1941 saying ‘Writer lived here’. Joyce, born in Dublin, was
educated by Jesuits before entering University College, Dublin. He lived here
briefly.
Campden Hill Square
1827/38 was called Notting Hill Square until 1893, when
the residents asked for a change of names.
Turner painted sunsets from
the garden in the middle. Plaque to Turner on a Tree. The
area’s major enterprise of the 1820s.
A large hillside square surrounded by beautiful houses,
many of which have well kept and interesting front gardens. The central square
is accessible only to residents but glimpses over the low old black railings show a peaceful space, with
close-mown lawns, well stocked shrubby borders and shady walks beneath mature
trees.
1-5
The
earliest buildings are near the turnpike road,
9 John Stuart John McDouall Stuart health broken by-hardships suffered in the first
official crossing of the Australian continent, died at No. 9 in 1866.
16 home of
Charles Morgan 1894-1958. Morgan was
born in Kent, the son of an engineer. He entered the Royal Navy in 1911 as a
midshipman, served in China and resigned his commission in 1913.
39 Lewis Kossuth
50 home of
Evelyn Underhill 1875-1941. 'Christian philosopher and teacher lived here
1907-1939'
Chepstow Villas
The area around comprised Ladbroke family and other
holdings. It was developed homogeneously
with grand detached and paired villas in stucco with Italianate details. Wide, tree-lined
Thornbury Court. formerly Our Lady of Sion
Convent, 1892-3 by A. Young, now
converted to flats
39 plaque to
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian nationalist who sought refuge in England following
the failure of Hungary's 1848-9 revolution against Austrian masters.
Clanricarde Gardens
Clarendon Cross
one
Of the few narrow roads linking Ladbroke land to the west,
was built to provide shops and services.
102 is decorated with oil jars in stucco;
Clarendon Road
Lansdowne House towering 1904 by William Flockhart,
83 Police Station now gone.
Cornwall Crescent
Dawson Place
Sedate and dignified 1849-57
Dollis Hill Road
Nichols Green,
East Acton
Goldsmiths Company Estate, Ascot Gas
Elgin Crescent
60 home of
Jawaharlal Nehru. 'first Prime Minister of India lived here in 1910 and 1912'.
Elgin Mews
Fitzgeorge Avenue
54 tablet about Avenue designed by Lord Mayor of London
Hesketh place
4 some of the first council rebuilding of 1906: one-room
tenements in two blocks linked by
an inner courtyard, of stock brick with careful red brick dressings
Hippodrome Mews
The 19th-Century Potteries of Holland Park. an area which,
in Victorian days, was well-known for its yellow clay used for brick making and
pottery (and also for its 'insalubrity' and its 'criminal and irreclaimable'
inhabitants).
pottery kiln,
physical evidence of the 'Potteries', as Dickens called the area. As well as
tiles, the most popular local product, this
surviving brick sentinel, when fired, emitted quantities of both flower
pots and drain pipes. tile kiln from the old slum piggeries' potteries, the
dining room of a house a picturesque
reminder of the area's past rebuilt in 1879 by Charles Adams, 1970s private
housing by Michael', Brown Associates, bordering on the Ladbroke estate.
Holland Estate
80 dukes lodge
Holland Park
Development on the site of Holland House from 1860. It has
90 identical villas by Francis Radford.
1a Greek Embassy.
80
Duke’s Lodge replaced No. 80 in 1939.
Holland Park Avenue
Most of the area to the north was farmland until c.
1840. During the building boom of the
1820s, stuccoed terraces sprang up along the Uxbridge road on the Ladbroke
estate.
80 Peter Eaton bookshop, not like an antiquarian
bookshop. 1975. Shop can be controlled from one point. Five levels like a Chinese puzzle.
84 Ford Madox Ford
100 Castle
140 British Esperanto Association
203 Duke of Clarence
Austin Showrooms were
Holland Park Hall opposite Royal Crescent, built 1908 as a skating rink
Holland Park Station. 30th July 1900.
Between Shepherd’s Bush and Notting Hill Gate on the Central Line Central
London Railway building by Harry Bell Measures, since refurbished. Original
Central Line station. Rising gradient of 1:60 at the approach to help braking
and fall of 130 for 100 yards going out to help acceleration
Milne Tavern, Nottinghill Farm site
Norland Mansions, a block of flats, on the north side of Holland Park Avenue at the
corner of Norland Square, the first of any importance to be built in Holland
Park Avenue.
Statue of St Volodymyr put up by
Ukrainian community
Halcyon Hotel.
Holland Park mews
Mews for the Holland Park development by Francis Radford built in 1860-79. It
provided 68 stables with accommodation above.
There is an entrance gate at the end and parapets which show how wealthy
the users of these mews were.
Kelvin Court
Kenley Walk
Octavia Hill
Kensal Green Gasworks,
Two canal arms into it gasholders 1882
Kensington Park
Gardens
Posh names to encourage building and posh people to live
there 1840s
7 William Crookes first house to be lit by
electricity. Scientist who among other things discovered in
1861 the metal thallium.
Halfway along on both sides of the
street there are gates leading into large communal gardens
Kensington Park Road
Planned in 1844.
Most terraces are 1850-60
32-28 built in 1848
Kelvin Court (1938)
Matlock Court, (1938)
Buckingham Court (1938)
Princes Court slightly earlier 1936 is more angular and more classical.
Kingsdown Close
1-3 Ladbroke Gardens
Borough’s sheltered housing for old people in pale brick,
angled round a garden with garden rock stones brought from the Marlborough Downs
Ladbroke
Estate
A coherent layout of crescents and large communal gardens
whose main features were first suggested in a plan by Thomas Allason of
1823. Building did not take place until
the 1840s. It was preceded by the
curious episode of the Hippodrome
racecourse, which covered an area of c.125 acres between Holland Park Avenue
and the present Westway, the crest of Notting Hill providing an ideal vantage
point. Opened in 1837, the course was
immediately beset with difficulties; its transgression over the public footpath
to Notting Barn Farm resulted in protest marches by local tenants, and it was
closed in 1841. Clarendon
Works Builders and Contractors, of some time between 1871 and 1892,
Ladbroke Gardena
Ladbroke Grove
The central crescents are separated by generous communal
gardens whose ends provide pleasantly leafy interludes. This is the spine of the estate, a wide
boulevard dominated at the crest of the hill by the spire of St John There has been
much rebuilding here and what is
left suffers from heavy traffic. Ladbroke name from Lord Mayor who owned property in the area
36-40 grandest survival by Thomas Allow,
St.John's Church. Gothic with a spire 1845. on site of
Notting Hill farmhouse. Occupied for a
bit by the Hippodrome racecourse.
63
Stone Tudor vicarage of 1844.
Ladbroke Road
Entrance to
racecourse at exit from Holland Park Avenue.
Ladbroke's arms on it. Whole
estate on site of Hippodrome opened in 1837 sold for housing 1840. Land not well for running on, too much clay.
Ladbroke Square
Garden is the largest in London. They were included in original Victorian
landscaping scheme in order to entice prospective purchasers of the West End.
Lancaster Road West
The street pattern dissolves into a mixed housing
development dominated by an array of tower blocks. The estate was planned for the borough
council by Clifford Feanfen in 1964-5, the tower and three-finger block
representing Phase 1 of a scheme
that was to include a commercial centre and other ambitious housing
developments. Leo Ferdinand the
footballer grew up here.
Lancefield Street
Mozart Estate
Meanwhile Community Gardens
Landsdowne Crescent
Lansdowne Mews
Lansdowne Road
Balloon Regent
Lansdowne House studios
Lansdowne Walk
1 an earlier case of remodelling, by Aston Webb, who lived
here from 1890 to 1930;
19 The most interesting later c 20 contribution to this
area enlarged and transformed in 1978-83 by and for Charles Jencks, working
with the Terry Farrell Partnership, The street side is tactfully handled,
Linden Gardens
Mary Place
Mission hall.
1881-6 a somewhat insignificant remnant of the energy pumped into this
area by the church
Matlock Court
Middle Row
Newland Estate
North side of Holland Park. Between Norland Road and Portland Road. 1839 developed by builder Richardson, until
bankrupt, Cantwell design 'pepperbox house in Royal Crescent'.
St.Ann's Tudor style,
Norlands 'North Lands'.
Norland Road
Norland. This
area, developed in the mid-19th century, preserves the old name ‘Northlandes’
1428, ‘Norlandesgate’ 1438, ‘Norlands’ 1607, ‘Norland Hall’ 1822, that is 'the
north open lands' of Kensington parish, from Middle English ‘north’ and ‘land’.
Sikh Temple
Norland Square
Laid out from 1840s by Robert Cantwell.
Site of home of Drummond the Banker
Norland House once
stood here was a small country house with a estate owned by the royal
clockmaker, Benjamin Vulliamy (father of the architect)
Notting Dale
Deprived part of this posh area. Brickmaking and gypsies. Cheap housing built from the 1860s. Some of the first housing associations began
here including Octavia Hill.
Pembridge Road
57 Man to Man
Gate Theatre. Started in 1979 in a room above the Prince
Albert Pub.
Pembridge Villas
The area around comprised Ladbroke family and other
holdings. It was developed homogeneously with grand detached and
paired villas in stucco with Italianate details
Pembridge Square
Lavish, albeit standard, Francis Radford houses 1857-64,
with elaborately profiled dormers
Penzance Road
St Clement and St. James School
Portland Road
102, 1850-60, oil jars and colour men
Cowshed, previously Orsinos, and originally The Portland
Arms.
Portobello Road
Franciscan Convent
171 Portobello Star
Geisler's Bakery
Pottery Lane
Old pottery site.
The yellow clay was used in the 19th in the local kiln to
make tiles, flower pots and drain pipes.
There was a colony of pig keepers at the end. It was thus known as ‘The Potteries and Piggeries’ and hemmed in on
the stiff clay ground between Portland Road and Latimer Road. It was an access road, and drove a wedge between the more prosperous
Norland and Ladbroke estates, something which is still evident in the awkward
connections between Princedale Road and Portland Road.
St Francis of Assisi. RC.
34-42 c 20 rebuilding has respected its old scale,
following the tradition of the tiny two-room cottages
Power Road,
Capple Gardens,
Princes Place
49 studios and
model shop. A converted garage with a
film production studio and the location used in ‘Blow Up’. John MacAsland and
Partners.
Queen's Drive.
Queensdale Road
Central Gurdwara, the oldest Sikh Temple in Europe.
Queensdale Walk
Tiny stucco mews cottages of 1844, also with Jacobean or
Tudor details, the double segmental lights still with their intricate glazing.
Rosmead Gardens
Royal Crescent
Built on site of the home of Drummond, Banker. Laid out by Robert Cantwell and built as
terraces in 1842-3. They are stuccoed, with precise lines on a curve.
Norland House.
Runcorn Place
Some of the first council rebuilding of 1906: one-room
tenements in two blockslinked by
an inner courtyard, of stock brick with careful red brick dressings
Shirland Road/Elgin Avenue
1880 HW Warwick Farm Dairy, cows used to come on the way,
staff and flats for three
Sirdar Road
Henry Dickens Court.
Complete contrast to the Octavia Hill stuff. Planned by the borough of Kensington in 1939
and built from 1945.
St Anne's Villas
Southern Row
St Anne’s Road
106-124 Octavia
Hill and Rowe Housing Trust a
pleasant terrace completed in 1988
126 unexploded bomb in the front garden
St.James' Gardens
The plaque on the church railings
mentions that while the square was built in the four years after 1847, it was
not actually finished until 5 years later because of shortage of funds
St James Church, 1845 that
the church was not given the spire that its architect, Lewis Vulliamy, had no
money. Addison Avenue provides a vista towards the church
1 John Barnett, broad-fronted three-storey pairs: linked
by recessed bays, the stuccoed ground floors with a harmonious rhythm of arcaded windows.
Prince of Wales.
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
St.John’s Gardens
St.Mark's Road
103-105 housing
Stanley Crescent
Stanley Gardens,
7a Abercrombie
Terrace with particularly splendid garden fronts with
balustraded bows, pediments, and Corinthian
pilasters
Stoneleigh Street
1871-84 the landowner James Whitchurch set out to improve,
the area by laying out the street around school and church with respectable
three-storey stock-brick terraces discreetly decorated with bands of moulded bricks
Threshers place
Small early improvement - cottage flats with pantiled
roofs planned in 1918 by W.H. Raffles for E.J. Schuster - council-owned by 1935
Tollgate Close
Reminder of toll on the canal bridge
Tredgold Street
1871-84 the landowner James Whitchurch set out to improve,
the area by laying out the street around school and church with respectable
three-storey stock-brick terraces discreetly decorated with bands of moulded bricks
Walmer Road
Notting Wood house.
A major Kensington council effort on a brewery site of 1935-9.
An old pottery kiln stands by the
roadside. As its plaque indicates, it is
a relic of the potteries and brickfields, which covered this low-lying
clay-land before it was developed.
Pig-keepers also lived here, their animals helping to make the Potteries
and the Piggeries notorious
Wayneflete Square
Part of the G.L.C.'s Silchester Estate, large with
landscaping an improvement of 1987 on 1970s hard surfacing;
Wedlake Street.
Footbridge over canal, Called Halfpenny Bridge because of
toll
1905 replaced 1990
Wesley Square
red brick
terraces around a communal lawn.
Westbourne Road
Site between Portobello and Colville. LLC flats and shops
Wilsham Street
Kensington Borough Council three storey workers
flats. This neighbourhood provides an
instructive study in varieties of reconstruction. The Piggeries went in the 1870s, but in 1893
the area around Wilsham Street and Sirdar Road was still 'a West End Avernus',
one of the poorest and most overcrowded slums in London. Improvements were slow and piecemeal. Octavia Hill was active here by 1900, the
year in which the first of several housing organizations in the area, the
Improved Tenements Association, was
founded. After 1901 the new Kensington
Council was empowered to rebuild and renovate, and by 1906 120 tenements had
been built in what was by then known as the Netting Dale Special Area,
establishing a pattern that was to continue for three quarters of a century.
Octavia Hill and Rowe Housing Trust – the most humane and appealing recent development,
between is not by the council but by the (successor to the Improved
Tenements). 1973-9 by H. M. Grellier & Son,
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