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Post to the east Maida Vale
Post to the south Nottinghill Ladbroke Grove
Adela Street
Alperton Street
Named for the company’s brickworks, which was at Alperton
and run by Henry Haynes.
Barfett Street
Beethoven Street
Bosworth Road
Crammed from the 1860s with small overcrowded houses, has
changed even more radically. Slum clearance in this area began in the 1930s and
continued on a grander scale after the war, the borough taking responsibility
for the area between Bosworth Road
and Golborne Road, the county council for the remainder. In the former area the
old street pattern is broken up not very happily, following a plan of 1956 by
Sir William Holford & Partners for the borough of Kensington.
50 Earl of Derby.
Emslie Horniman Pleasance. Grounds presented by
Emslie J. Horniman in 1911, with Shelters, walls and layout designed by C.F.A.
Voysey as a Spanish garden. The rectangular garden is laid out around a formal pool. are arched shelters, and above the entrance is an inscription. The ironwork is
by W. B. Reynolds. An Arts and Crafts garden hidden away in North Kensington.
Horniman was a local MP who,
because there was no park for children in the area, gave the land in perpetuity
'for the people of London as a recreation ground’.
Children’s playground in a modern style, .
Bravington Road
Caird Street
Canal
Carlton Bridge, 1870
Boundary stone
Kensal Wharf
Carlton Bridge Tavern
Mckay Trading Estate, a smart series of colourful
buildings alongside the canal, 1981 by John Outram-
Droop Street
Droop was the Chairman of the company.
Queens Park School opened by SBL in 1877 as Droop Street School the first school on
estate. Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club started here in 1882
Pinkham local developer and general big wig lived here.
East Row
The development known in the c19 as Kensal New Town began
in the 1840s with small cottages .The street pattern remains, but almost all
traces of the modest early buildings have disappeared.
Elgin Avenue
Elgin Crescent
Graham & Green source of some of the smartest modern
and traditional garden furniture
Enbrook Street
Farrant Street
Named after a company director.
Formosa Street,
Kilburn crossed the canal here
Galton Street
Harrow Road
324 Paddington Churches Housing Association. Was the
Coliseum Cinema
325 Police Station.
421 Russell Bros. Joinery a builders, display and exhibition contractors.
Boundary stones in
the pavement for St. Luke's Chelsea (SLC).
423 site of Kensal Wharf. Backing onto the canal with six bays for vehicle access with a side
access to the Wharf.
527 north bank of Paddington Canal next to Flora Hotel,
1890s factory of sporting gun manufacturers, Holland and Holland
578-580 Queens Park Meeting Hall. Recreation and meeting hall, 1883-4 for the Artisans, Labourers and
General Dwellings Company and their name is over the door. Style is
transitional between Gothic and Queen Anne. Shop on ground floor and All Star Boxing Club on first
floor.ornate frieze.in Southeast corner of the
estate.
Monogrammed block
Paddington Armoury 3rd City of London Regiment
Hazelwood Road
Holmefield House, is by Julian Keable
Partners, 1964. Its exterior facelift dates from 1985.
The Prince Arthur, a token preservation of the c19, stands
in isolation.
Herries Street
Huxley Street
Ilbert Street
Kensal Road,
Lots of old mansions still
166 warehouse, 1980, Carlisle Castle nineteenth century
lost dogs home
Cobden Working Men's Club 1880, an interesting and ornate building.
Globe Wernicke Furniture Factory
White Knight Laundry
Offices of Arendt Bednarski Roche, an ingenious conversion
of a 1920s warehouse.
Meanwhile Community
Gardens. Ribbon-like park in the
shadow of the Trellick Tower. Originally made in the 1970s There are several
distinct areas: a grassed area beside the Grand Union Canal; a woodland walk
with a timber boardwalk; as well as wildlife. There is a bike and skateboard
bowl, and a sparkling spiral path made from glass chippings set in resin links
and salvaged railway sleepers, set at leaning angles in the soil, are used to
divide the spaces.
Kilburn Lane
Moberley Youth Centre - Senior Board
School. 1885,
School Board for London, their only school outside London area. Land had been
scrap yard in 1883, Children had to pay more because it was, and is, in
Westminster, who don't pay the precept to SBL
Ainsworth House named
for the novelist Harrison Ainsworth who lived locally
Kilvarock Street
Lancefield Street
Lothrop Street
Marne Street
Middle Row
Bus garage
The development known in the c19 as Kensal New Town began
in the 1840s with small cottages .The street pattern remains, but almost all
traces of the modest early buildings have disappeared.
Mozart Estate
Meanwhile Community Gardens,
Mozart Street
Nutbourne Street
Oliphant Street
Queen's Park
Name of the residential district developed from 1875, as
well as of the park just to the north opened in 1887, both so called in honour
of Queen Victoria.
Queen's Park Estate
The area covers part of the area of the Malorees Estate,
belonging to All Souls College and partly in Willesden and partly in
Paddington.
Artisan’s Labourers and General Dwellings Co formed by
William Austin to build working class homes.
Public health and railways.
'Healthy homes are the first condition of social progress' total
abstinence principles. They bought 80 acres in 1874 from All Souls, at a time
when there were fields all round, in a detached part of Chelsea. It was designed to be like Shaftsbury Park.
The Street names are numbers running north south, and letters running east
west. There are six number avenues and street letters A to P, like Washington
DC. There is no general memorial, but the houses carry dates 1876 or 77. At
Shaftesbury Park many of the largest houses had been split informally and to
address the problem at Queens Park a small proportion of tenements were
introduced. They conformed to the terraced facade but were in fact two flats
contained within one house, split horizontally - the give-away being the two
front doors
Congregational Church 1886 too. Opened as a
permanent building in June 1890. United Reform in 1972.
Shirland Road
Westbourne joined by tributary from Willesden
Children’s home
1880 HW Walford Dairy farm. Cows used to come on the way,
staff and flats for three
Southern Row
The development known in the c19 as Kensal New Town began
in the 1840s with small cottages .The street pattern remains, but almost all
traces of the modest early buildings have disappeared.
Third Avenue
College demolished
Wedlake Street
Footbridge over canal, Called Halfpenny Bridge because of
toll
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