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

The Saturday market here trades in old clothes and every sort of junk, and is really an extension of the main Portobello Road market.
Murchison estate
Swinbrook
Carnavon Castle. 
54 Lisboa Delicatessen. 

Great Western Road
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.
Two tributaries going down to join Counters Creek at Kelfield Gardens
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

Rillington Place, 
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.
Tavistock Arms. It was renamed Old Mother Black Cap after Withnail but has also been called Fudrucker’s, and Baboushka’s
Fred’s Café now rebuilt. 

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.
Cheerful, varied frontages beneath Westway, with snug, well- insulated shops and workshops off a central passage
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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