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Alfred Road
Royal Saxon pub 1850 dedicated to Alfred the Great.

Amberley Estate
Begun by the G.L.C., completed by Westminster in 1974-5, 

Artesian Road
Field with a well in it which was filled in in 1885.
St.Mary’s RC Church Hall. 

Bishops Bridge Road
Flats: temporary building in Bishop's Bridge Road, where a library had been intended: a greenhouse using polycarbonate sheeting, for Clifton Nurseries. It was replaced in 1989 by flats by Percy Thomas Partnership.

Blomfield Road
Built first part of 1840s. waterside setting make is one of the best groupings. 
37 Christopher Fry
Brindley Estate. four-storey blocks and towers. L.C.C. completed c. 1964
Canal
Westbourne crosses it

Chepstow Road
Artesian

Chichester Place
Demolished and gone. 

Clifton Gardens
St.Saviour
Coburg Hotel
8 Victoria Grove Crescent George Elliott
Clifton Villas

Delamere Road
Ornate building BBC studios since 30s but was a skating rink.
Delamere Chapel

Delamere Terrace
29 Gosse

Denbigh Close

Formosa Street
Paddington Stop

Garway Road
Distinguished by terraces with undulating bowed fronts, also a Tyburnian device

Gloucester Gardens
Terraces converted to flats by the G.L.C. between 1964 and 1975, with the facades and also with a new garden behind

Gloucester Terrace
Sewer from here fed the Serpentine
Tall stucco terraces. Acquired in a run-down condition from the Church Commissioners in 1955 by the L.C.C. 

Grand Junction Road
St.James
121 Lewis

Harrow Road
Carlton Gate flats was St.Mary's Hospital which closed in 1986.  originally Infirmary for Paddington workhouse opened in 1867.
London Lock VD hospital. Moved to this site in 1842 with buildings by Louis Vuillamy. Only such specialist hospital in London which got a government subsidy for treating soldiers. Closed 1952 and demolished.
Wedlake Street footbridge.  1905, called Half Penny Bridge because of toll.  Canalside cottages
255 Westminster Academy.  Colourful school for 1175 students, with intergrated supergraphics and sports hall. Green roof, etc.
Hatherley Gardens
31a Brick House.  Land on which it is built is shaped like a horse’s head and only reached down a carriageway through the façade of a terrace. Caruso St.John 2005

Hereford Road
Leads into the stucco world of the mid c 19. Distinguished by terraces with undulating bowed fronts, 
71 home of Marconi, radio pioneer  Guglielrno Marconi, 1874-1937. 

Kensington Gardens Square
Busier frontages.  Windows in triplets. It was in progress in 1858

Ledbury Road
Lord Hills Bridge

Monmouth Road
Jehovah's Witness Hall was the French Eglise Reformee Evangelique.
28d Eco House. Family home with minimal carbon footprint. Very  narrow site.
Pitman Tozer Architects 2007

Moorhouse Road
Original name was Westmoreland Road.  
St.Mary of the Angels. RC.

Needham Road

Newton Road
32, by Denys Lasdun, 1937-8.  Designed as a studio for artist F.J.Conway. 

Orsett Terrace
Paddington Main Line
Westbourne under it
Railway Line between Paddington and West Drayton six in a hollow tube 1838 as a telegraph system laid by Brunel

Porchester Road
66 built for the Great Western Railway stationery store. Hennibique system reinformed concrete. Refurbished as studios for Hamilton Associates.
Porchester Hall .  
Paddington Baths & rebuilt baths 1929
Peter Court London Properties Ltd. 1934.
Royal Oak Station.  30th October  1871.        Between Paddington and Westbourne Park on Hammersmith and City Line.  The station takes its name from an old railway tavern which could only be reached by a wooden plank over the Westboume River. 
By the railway site of village of Westbourne Green or Tyburn. Royal Oak was the rustic inn.  Site of Westbourne House home of Cockerell.  Opposite Military Hospital.  Mrs. Siddons' house demolished for the railway.  Westbourne Estate owned by ex-chimney sweep Isaac Ware who built him Westbourne Place using materials from the Earl of Chesterfield's house, which he was building at the time.

Porchester Square
Terrace 1851 by George Wyatt. , acquired in a run-down condition from the Church Commissioners in 1955 by the L.C.C. 
Colonnades, a alleyway leading to mews houses faced in yellow and brown tiles, and to a glazed arcade leading to the shops in Porchester Road. 
The Triangle around a new garden formed above sunken garages, in place of mews alleys, were converted to flats by the G.L.C. between 1964 and 1975, with the facades

Queensway
Earlier known as Queens Road, named in honour of Queen Victoria soon after she came to the throne in 1837 because it was said that as a Princess she rode along it to Kensington Palace when it was still a country lane.
Inver Court opposite Whitleys luxury shops and offices.
Queens Cinema corner of Bishops Bridge Road.
Ralph Court flats northern end London Properties Ltd. 1934
Arthur Court flats northern end. London Properties Ltd. 1934
Northern section of Queensway used to be Pickering Street
Black Lion Lane renamed for Queen Victoria
Consort House.  Artesian well where shark's teeth were found
Ivy Cottage demolished Augustus Egg

Ranelagh Bridge

Rede Place

Redan Place
Rebuilt in 1925
Spring rises which feeds into the Westbourne by the Serpentine
11 Schreiner

Rowington Close
St Mary Magdalene. built on earth tip from canal. G.E.Street, 1867. Comper crypt. Royal Oak
GWR power station 1886 for lighting of station and hotel
St.Mary's Hospital

St.Stephen’s Crescent

St.Stephen’s Gardens

St.Stephen’s Mews

Torquay Street

Warwick Estate. 
Built LCC architects dept. 1962 housing in curve of canal.  

Westbourne Green.
Flats scattered around Street's St Mary Magdalene which was preserved as the focus of a new open space. Something of a misconception, as the church was designed to fit into a tight urban setting. The green broadens towards Westway, the opposite, approach to the later device of the barrier block shutting off traffic.  Sports complex.

Westbourne Grove
shopping street which remained a country lane as late as 1840
18 Florida Department of Commerce,
26 Arabian bookshop. Highlight. built as an ‘Athenaeum', 1861 by A-Billingham stuccoed, with round-headed windows with columns and a good deal of sculpture - musical angels, busts of Milton, Shakespeare. Site of Westbourne Hall extension of Bayswater Athenaeum
31 Whitleys site originally.  Called bankruptcy row in those days.
60-64 Midland Bank, a grand Edwardian design with three large arches on the upper floor.
152 A.J. Cronin practice
282 B.Lipka and Son Antique Gallery 
Odeon cinema site of House of Louis Lucien Bonaparte started in 1919 and not finished all through the war.
Frederick Lawrence furniture shop in 11 of the old Whitley shops & 4 others.
Office and housing hiding behind old stucco frontages, extensive redevelopment of 1989 by Douglas Paskin Associates, Gab House estates.
Hatherley Court flats 1936 on site of Owens Drapery store.  Frontage is the Westbourne Park Building Society
Wesleyan chapel
Bradley & Sons corner Chepstow Place.  Arctic fur company.
Westbourne Court of 1924.Westbourne Terrace and Rosette Terrace over the opposite office by GWR for Hotel and parcels station.
Sue Ryder shop. Left hand window zig zags like the folds of a screen. Style which set out to make plate glass less obtrusive.
Earl of Lonsdale. Was previously Heneky’s. 

Westbourne Park

Westbourne Park Passage

Westbourne Park Road
mixture of villas and terraces around St Stephen's church, a more relaxed layout than in most of Paddington, with picturesque vistas created by the curving streets.
Brunel Estate large borough housing schemes in tough dark brick of which the most ambitious is the, close to Westway begun in the 1960s, completed in 1974, by the City of Westminster Architect's Department. Built on derelict railway lane 
Westbourne Park Villas
16 Hardy
101 Westbourne Tavern

Westbourne Road
St Clement
Churchyard managed as open space by the Vicar
Westway
Flyover - Westbourne under it.  1970 as elevated section of M40.
Tunnel at Lisson Grove.  Upside down house because front door is upstairs canal leaflet terrace and vaults for Lisson Grove Institute of the Handicapped
1853 built by Alexander Hill - owned land and then site - London quarry interests - own the main line station.


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