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Kensington Olympia, Hammersmith & Fulham An exhibition centre located at the western end of Kensington High Street Kensington Olympia This was the site of a vineyard in the 18th century, which by all accounts produced a passable burgundy. Kensington station opened nearby in 1864 and was renamed Kensington (Addison Road) four years later. Following the success of the Agricultural Hall in Islington, which held military tournaments as well as …
…t (Westminster) Jewel Tower (Westminster) The Guide JJ Fox, St James’s Street (Westminster) The Guide K Keats House, Hampstead (Camden) The Guide Kennington (Lambeth/Southwark) Kensal Green (Brent/Kensington & Chelsea) Kensington Olympia (Hammersmith & Fulham) Kenwood (Camden) Kevington (Bromley) Kew Bridge (Hounslow) Kilburn (Brent/Camden) Kilburn Park (Brent/Westminster) Kingsbury (Brent) L Lamb & Flag, Covent Garden (Westminst…
Brompton, Kensington & Chelsea A prosperous district yielding to the greater cachets of Chelsea, Knightsbridge and South Kensington, centred on Brompton Road, which runs south-westward from Knightsbridge tube station Brompton Oratory is one of London’s trendiest and most upmarket places of worship There was a heathland village here in medieval times and ‘Broom Farm’ was first recorded in 1294. The marshy ground was drained in the 16th c…
Lancaster Gate, Westminster A street, locality and entrance to Kensington Gardens located halfway along Bayswater Road Lancaster Gate is an entrance to Kensington Gardens The entrance to Kensington Gardens, which gave the locality and station their names, is so called in honour of Queen Victoria, in her guise as the Duchess of Lancaster. Lancaster Gate station is actually sited opposite Marlborough Gate, just to the east. In its heyday, Lancast…
…Westway was conceived as a solution to congestion caused by the absence of a link between central London and the interwar Western Avenue. The Greater London Council forced this state-of-the-art highway through the North Kensington area amidst allegations of Soviet-style disregard for the effects on the local population. Angry protests greeted Michael Heseltine, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport, when he opened the Westw…
…us generous bequests in his will that couldn’t otherwise have been funded. The house itself, with its sole upstairs bedroom, proved much harder to sell than its trappings and ended up in the possession of the Royal Borough of Kensington. To compound the loss of its contents, a series of well-meaning but ill-considered repairs over the course of the 20th century (including those necessitated by Second World War bomb damage) conspired to furth…
London boroughs map The administrative boundaries of the 32 boroughs of Greater London and the City of London H&F is Hammersmith and Fulham. K&C is Kensington and Chelsea. If you move your pointer over the map, the labelling disappears. The present boroughs of London were constituted in 1965. Since then there have been many minor boundary changes but nothing radical, unless you count the loss of the hamlet of Kitt’s End to the Hertfo…
Barons Court, Hammersmith & Fulham A made-up name for the compact residential locality situated between Hammersmith and West Kensington Barons Court station Hammersmith (or Margravine) Cemetery was consecrated in 1869 and soon afterwards Major Sir William Palliser built the first suburban houses to its east. Palliser was the inventor of armour-piercing projectiles known as Palliser shot, while his wife was famous as the model for Sir J…
West Brompton, Kensington & Chelsea Squeezed almost out of existence by Fulham, Chelsea and Earls Court, between which it lies, West Brompton was an area of fields and market gardens until the late 18th century Names on Brompton Cemetery’s headstones include Jeremiah Fisher and Peter Rabbett Much of the land hereabouts was acquired from 1801 by the Gunter family, confectioners of Berkeley Square. Over the course of the 19th century the Gun…
…t Open: early March to the end of October, bank holiday Mondays and Wednesday–Sunday 11.00am–5pm (last admission 30 minutes before closing) Admission: £5.10 (adults), £2.60 (children), £12.80 (families) Nearest station: South Kensington (District and Circles lines) …
