Category: Notting Dale

Bangor Street, W11

Bangor Street was situated on the site of the modern Henry Dickens Court.

St Mark’s Road, W11

St Mark’s Road is a street in the Ladbroke conservation area.

Latimer Road to Ladbroke Grove walk

Latimer Road station was opened in 1868 after the railway operator decided to create a junction with another line that is now the London Overground. This junction was eventually dismantled in 1940. The station’s is named from a road that is not now located nearby. As no station building had been planned originally, there was …

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Blechynden Mews, W11

Blechynden Mews is a former side street in London W11.

Ansleigh Place, W11

Ansleigh Place is an ex mews to the west of Notting Dale.

Wilsham Street, W11

Wilsham Street was formerly known as St Katherine’s Road.

Aldermaston Street, W10

Aldermaston Street is a lost street of North Kensington

Notting Hell

‘The Ocean’ pit and the pottery field were acquired from the Adams family and the area was landscaped by ‘private munificence’ into a recreation ground and gardens featuring a mortuary chapel. Then the Vestry named it Avondale Park, in honour of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Albert Victor, the son and heir of the …

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Baths and Clubs

In the wake of further sanitation campaigns, the Kensington Baths and Washhouse was finally established at the junction of Silchester Road and Lancaster Road in 1888. By then the Latimer Road Board School was catering for over 1,000 pupils, after the original Ragged School opened in the 1860s for 100. Notting Dale also hosted the …

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Going down the Lane

Another slum developed at Notting Hill Gate south of the road in the streets known as ‘the Racks’ (after the original field); Uxbridge, Newcombe, Calcott, Hillgate/Dartmoor, Farmer and Jameson. The main employer here would be the Dunhill cigarette factory on Uxbridge Street. As the Swan inn on Church Street became a gin palace, the Coach …

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