Westbourne Park - Ladbroke Grove
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Aklam Road
Aldridge Road
Villas, J.Aldridge died 1795, MP, Queensboro
23 Sardar Patel,
1875-1950 'Indian statesman lived here’. Patel was practising as a criminal
lawyer in Bombay, where he was born, when, in 1917, he met Gandhi. All Saints Road
Rev. Samuel Walker bought Portobello Farm and built the
church - no money and the church was isolated and derelict for 10 years and
called ‘Walker’s Folly’ or ‘All
Sinners’. He came from St.Colomb near
St.Ervan. Development nearby began in 1852 but his financial failings meant that
housing was not started until 1860
6-8 Manor,
was Mas Café
Bartle Close
Bartlett’s Iron Foundry
Basing Street,
1549 manor given to William Paulet Lord St.John, Basing
was his manor near Winchester, sold 1562
Bevington Road
Bevington Arms. Closed.
Cheltenham Estate
Between the canal, Westway. and Golborne Road. More powerful impact commissioned from
Goldfinger & Partners by the G.L.C. in 1966,
Trellick Tower.
1973 by Erno Goldfinger. block of thirty-stories in one of the last of the
mixed housing developments promoted by the L. C. C. 217 flats, with a
separate lift and stair-tower with bridges to the main block at every third
storey. By the
1970s such a monumental scale was a dinosaur. Grade II listed. Free standing
service tower and boiler house.
Old people’s home and a park. Exemplary attention to detail.
Clydesdale Road
Colville Gardens
Tall, narrow-fronted
houses are by T. S. Tippett, who worked with G.Wyatt at Princes and Leinster
Colville Square
Tall, narrow-fronted houses are by T. S. Tippett, who
worked with G.Wyatt at Princes and Leinster Squares
Colville Terrace
Houses by T. S. Tippet
Faraday Road
Fire station –
possibly built for horses. 'A splendid piece of architecture, red brick
sub—Gothic, with octagonal tower,
presumably for drying hoses.
Golbourne Road
West of the railway are small
shops, deliberately preserved as an anchor between the reconstructed areas
Murchison estate
Swinbrook
Carnavon Castle.
54 Lisboa Delicatessen.
Bus Garage LT underneath interesting juxtaposition of roads
Westbourne
Park Station. 1st February 1866 1854 called
Green Lane station Between Royal Oak and Ladbroke Grove Hammersmith and City
Line. Hammersmith and City. Opened as
‘Westbourne Park and Kensal Green’. 1871 reopened on a different site as
station on both Hammersmith and City and Great Western 1992 Great Western Service
closed. Pretty coloured poles on the station platform.
Metropolitan. Public house
Kensington Park
Road
Kensington Temple
St Peter.
Kensington Park Road
Flats of 1935
Ladbroke Estate
Proposals for villas in 1821 but economic downturn. J.W Ladbroke private act 5 acres per
house. Thomas Allason laid out 1823.
Built up around 1840.
Ladbroke Grove
Wide boulevard in the spine of the estate. Named from a
family called Ladbroke; Sir Richard Ladbrooke, banker and Lord Mayor, owned
land here in 1624, and the family sold it for building purposes in 1845 after
which date the area was developed.
Steel Truss Railway Bridges across GWR main line, early 20th century . Long-span truss carrying
Ladbroke Grove, bears date 1913.
Contractors F.C. & E. Keay Ltd., of Darlaston.
St Michael
Library. Compact and firm in its lower parts, and on the
sky line, 1890/1
Ladbroke Grove Station. 13th June 1864 Between Westbourne Park and Latimer Road
Hammersmith and City Line. Worked by the
Great Western Railway. 1869 Name changed
to ‘Notting Hill (Ladbroke Grove)’. 1880 Name changed to ‘Notting Hill and
Ladbroke Grove’. 1919 Name changed to ‘Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)’. 1938
name changed to ‘Ladbroke Grove’.
Elgin pub. One of
the first buildings in the road after the arrival of the station, but
reconstructed in the 1890s
Two Hexagonal Pillar Boxes .c. 1879 one at the junction with Oxford Gardens and the other at the junction with Telford
Road.
Ambulance station
Maxilla Nursery Centre. By the G.L.C. with community
centre and laundry, 1974
36-40 large houses. Thomas Allom
65 Kensal house. By Maxwell Fry, International Modern Style . Designed with a committee
of Robert Atkinson, C. H. James, Womum, and Elizabeth Denby, Built for the Gas Light and Coke Company building, together with the
Capitol Housing Association and squeezed on the edge of their site. Pioneering example of how
gas could be used. The flats planned to demonstrate the mass provision of fuel and were
used for their up-to-date gas cooking and heating equipment. Club rooms for the men. Only one entrance
across a bridge. Pierced concrete balconies designed for drying clothes – attention
to women’s work needs by Elizabeth Denby.
The low steel-framed Nursery School built in curve of a
demolished gasholder
Lancaster Road
87 This is a medium-size infill block of offices near Portobello Road. Its
developer-client, was the late Michael Baumgarten, an architect who was
formerly a partner of Julyan Wickham.
105 Royalty Studios a on the site of the former Royalty
cinema. Of 1984-6 by CZWG, they are an group of studios and light industry;
117 London Lighthouse. `Converted to a hospice from an older school building in 1986-8 by
Sproson Barrable. Small courtyard
garden created in 1988
Ledbury Road
Malton Road
Ambulance Station. Demonstrates the bleaker approach of the 1960s. Neat but drab concrete tucked beneath Westway. GLC 1968
Murchison Road
Notting Hill
The name may derive from a Saxon family Cnottingas sons of
Cnotta and first recorded in 1356. 'Hill occupied by Knotting family', the
surname being derived from the place in Bedfordshire. Other suggestions include a derivation from a supposed
hill’. ‘Knottynghull' 1356, ‘Notynghyll’ 1550.
Notting Hill was also called Camden Hill. It was the site of Kensington gravel pits and
was known as Kensington Gravel Pits marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, earlier the
Gravilpits 1654, Kinsington.
St.Francis of Assisi 1859 for the English branch of the
Oblates of St.Charles Borremeo
Notting Barn Farm
Pember Street:
Garage. Bus garage in the 20s. Red Line buses. Still some
garage in 1977.
Portobello Green
The name given to a small landscaped area created in the
1970s off Portobello Road immediately and to the ingenious mixed-use
development built into the space beneath the road. All by Franklin Stafford
Partnership with Buro Happold
engineers, 1979-81, for the North Kensington Amenity Trust (established by the
borough in 1970-1 to put the land left over from Westway to community use). A
triumphant demonstration that once their functions are clearly defined, such
difficult sites need not be disaster areas. On the green a sturdily anchored
open tent for a market (planned with a ten-year life).
Portobello Road
Portobello Road was originally a farm track leading from
the village of Netting Hill Gate to `Bello Farm, which stood about where you
are now. The farm was named in the 18th in honour of the 1739 naval
battle when the British defeated the Spanish at Puerto Bello in the Gulf of
Mexico. Built up
from c. 864-72 with densely packed terraces. Now there are the front gardens of brightly
painted houses with flowers - a dark red climbing rose against an aqua blue
wall to a romantic Gothick arch clothed in honeysuckle and jasmine. Wisteria
pours over balconies while the tiniest rooftop terraces are fringed with green.
67 Cheshire Galleries.
142 Gong, which was previously
Nichollas Antique Arcade,
Phone Box. Gone.
191, Electric Cinema. One of the oldest surviving purpose-built cinemas in Britain, it was
designed by G. S. Valentin in 1910-11 and reopened following refurbishment by
Faithful Blyth, with interiors by Simon Wedgwood. It
was originally a coffee palace, The Imperial Gallery, 1911. The interior
features include a screen around the entrance kiosk; decorative plasterwork in the hall. Early purpose-built cinemas were simply a rectangular hall with a
barrel-vault roof, with no room for a gallery although there was room for about
1,000 patrons. The vault would be
covered in ornate plasterwork and the screen would cover the end wall. Proscenium arches were added when sound
systems were introduced. Also called The Gate.
Portobello Market started up here - institution that still dominates the
part of the road and was largely responsible for the social decline of the
district Antique dealers moved here after the closure of the Caledonian
Antiques Market in Islington. in 1948.
355 corner of Golbourne Mews. Garage for private bus
company, Red Line. Reg. 1911. At the back garage for the buses
244 Portobello Road Golden Cross garage also used for the
buses, very big garage behind with entrance in Basing Street
Bilingual Spanish school built as a
Franciscan convent in 1862.
Brad Douro Restaurant. Was also
Portfolio Card Shop.
Powis Square
Houses by T. S. Tippett, who worked with G.Wyatt.
New brick building in
the centre of the square, built 1979 by the Borough
Architect's Department.
Playground,
Rendle Street
Reston Close
10 Christie
Ruston Mews
Renamed Bartle Close
Stanley Crescent
St.Ervan's Road
St.Luke’s Mews
St.Luke's Road
40 William Henry Hudson 1841-1922 Plaque saying: 'plaque placed here by his friends' Hudson
was born of English parents in Argentina, where he grew up roaming the Pampas
until 1869, when he came to London.
Swinbrook Road
GLC redevelopment scheme 1970
Talbot Road
Terraces around All Saints' church - in the 1960s these
were some of the worst rented accommodation in London but have since been
redeveloped.
Flats - first
new flats for the Notting Hill Housing Trust, by Quantic Associates, c. 1978.
Four storeys, slate-hung
All Saints with St. Colombs bombed
Tabernacle Community Centre
82 Houseman
Tavistock Crescent
Much more acceptable backing on to the Metropolitan line
and Westway, rebuilt in 1977-81 by H. T. Cadbury-Brown & John Metcalfe for
the borough. Similar terrace at the end of the crescent. This is just over the Westminster border,
rebuilt by the G.L.C. The Kensington stretch provides a pleasanter streetscape,
varied by alternately receding planes of brickwork, and with more generous sunken front gardens. The lighter
balconies may be less functional but are certainly less overbearing than the
G.L.C.'s jutting profiles.
Telford Road
Thorpe Close
London Wildlife Trust
Westbourne Grove
Wild at Heart London's grooviest florist
Westbourne Park Road
Brunel estate
Will Hudson at 40 ran a boarding house here.
The Castle. Was the Warwick Castle.
Westbourne Walk
M4 overhead the canal in elevated section canal M40 built
over the canal in 1970
Westway
Arrival in the 1960s of the massive elevated section of
Westway alongside the Metropolitan railway line. a visual and aural intrusion
imposed with apparently ruthless disregard to its effect on the neighbourhood (albeit
preferable to the L.C.C.'s proposal for a surface e-level highway running in
front of All Saints' church) In the 1970s came efforts to mitigate the worst
effects, with 'barrier' housing alongside, and imaginative use of the dead
space beneath the road.
Overhanging roadway has been transformed into a covered
arcade monumentality counter pointed by the friendly scale and colourful detail of the offices and workshops
behind.
Travellers Camp underneath.
Wheatstone Road
Wornington Road,
Murchison Estate, an ambitious and large scheme by Chapman
Taylor Partners, 1974-9, for the Kensington Housing Trust. Over 500 flats and houses, the flats in five-
to six-storey blocks arranged around leafy pedestrian routes
Woodsfield Place
Weston’s Cider House
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