Angola Mews, one of the lost mews of North Kensington, was demolished to make way for the Bevington Road School.
Angola Mews was a home of local Hansom Cab drivers.
The term ’Angola’ was used to describe waterproof clothing or a sheet. Angola roofing sheets, which are like thicker, flexible tarpaulins made of canvas, are still available. They were probably used then for open-air roofing on carriages or traps, and are now used on small cruiser boats. It’s likely that Angola refers to this type of textile rather than the ex-Portuguese colony. The Bevington Road School was constructed on the site of Angola Mews, which was shown as black on the Booth Poverty Map, indicating extreme poverty.
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