Adair Road is a street on the Kensal Town/North Kensington borders.
Category: Kensal Town
Western Dwellings, W10
Western Dwellings were a row of houses, opposite the Western Gas Works, housing some of the workers.
London W10
W10 covers three main areas of London: North Kensington, the Queen’s Park Estate and parts of Notting Hill. The heart of London W10 is North Kensington (nowadays also known by the name of its main street, Ladbroke Grove). The Grand Union Canal is the official boundary between Kensal Green and North Kensington. The borders between …
1800: London W10
This map of the 1800 countryside in the area which covers today’s London W10 postcode has been compiled by The Underground Map from various sources. As its main source, the Milne map of London shows the landuse of fields and the routes of lanes. An 1834 map of Marylebone Parish provided field names up to …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: Portobello Road and Kensal New Town
Bayswater End Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone St. Charles Ward There seems to be a natural break where the railway embankment crosses Portobello Road. At this point the old lane was interrupted by low marshy ground, overgrown with rushes and water-cress, and it is said that snipe were shot here almost within …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: During the Eighteen Thirties
The 18th century Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone Peaceful hamlet The first encroachment on the rural character of Notting Hill was the cutting of the Paddington Branch of the Grand Junction Canal. Several artificial waterways had already been constructed among the manufacturing towns in the north of England, and the canal system …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: In the Eighteenth Century
Gravel Pits Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone The 1830s The commencement of the village of Kensington Gravel Pits has already been described. Under present conditions it is difficult to realize how countrified the place remained during the whole of the eighteenth century. In Kip’s Britannia Illustrata, published in 1714, there is a …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days
Here’s a scan of the the seminal 1920s book about W10 and W11 history (now out of print): Florence Gladstone’s “Notting Hill in Bygone Days”. Each chapter is available here by following the links. P.S. Passing thanks to the big scanner at the Kensington main library which Dave Walker who does The Library Time Machine …
William Miller’s Yard
We are not sure when this lovely old photo was taken but it at least dates after 1878 since Middle Row School can be seen in the background – it was built that year. William Miller lived at 4 South Row and kept chickens and a pig in the back. The yard was situated behind …
Adela Street, W10
Thanks to a feature about the movie Steptoe and Son (1972) on the ReelStreets website, we are taking a small trip both down memory lane and indeed Adela Street in Kensal Town. Adela Street is a tiny, otherwise inconsequential cul-de-sac off of Kensal Road. It might have remained that way had not location scouts discovered …