Metropolitan Borough of Kensington

The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.

It included Kensington, South Kensington, Earls Court, Notting Hill, Brompton and part of Kensal Green.

In 1901 it was granted the status of a royal borough, and therefore from then was also known as the Royal Borough of Kensington. The status was granted after the death of Queen Victoria, in accordance with her wish (she was born at Kensington Palace in the borough).

In 1965 it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Roy Batham Notting Dale Added: 7 Jan 2022 05:50 GMT	Batham Family (1851 - 1921) I start with William Batham 1786-1852 born in St.Martins Middlesex. From various sources I have found snippets of information concerning his early life. A soldier in 1814 he married Mary Champelovier of Huguenot descent By 1819 they were in Kensington where they raised 10 children. Apart from soldier his other occupations include whitesmith, bell hanger and pig breeder. I find my first record in the 1851 English sensus. No street address is given, just ’The Potteries’. He died 1853. Only one child at home then George Batham 1839-1923, my great grandfather. By 1861 he is living in Thomas St. Kensington with his mother. A bricklayer by trade 1871, married and still in Thomas St. 1881 finds him in 5,Martin St. Kensington. 1891 10,Manchester St. 1911, 44 Hunt St Hammersmith. Lastly 1921 Census 7, Mersey St. which has since been demolished. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply
Tom Vague 3 Acklam Road Added: 9 Sep 2020 14:02 GMT	The Bedford family at 3 Acklam Road (1860 - 1965) From the 19th century up until 1965, number 3 Acklam Road, near the Portobello Road junction, was occupied by the Bedford family. When the Westway construction work began the Bedfords sold up and moved to south London. In the early 1970s the house was taken over by the North Kensington Amenity Trust and became the Notting Hill Carnival office before its eventual demolition. Anne Bedford (now McSweeney) has fond memories of living there, although she recalls: ‘I now know that the conditions were far from ideal but then I knew no different. There was no running hot water, inside toilet or bath, apart from the tin bath we used once a week in the large kitchen/dining room. Any hot water needed was heated in a kettle. I wasn’t aware that there were people not far away who were a lot worse off than us, living in poverty in houses just like mine but families renting one room. We did have a toilet/bathroom installed in 1959, which was ‘luxury’. ‘When the plans for the Westway were coming to light, we were still living in the house whilst all the houses opposite became empty and boarded up one by one. We watched all this going on and decided that it was not going to be a good place to be once the builders moved in to demolish all the houses and start work on the elevated road. Dad sold the house for a fraction of what it should have been worth but it needed too much doing to it to bring it to a good living standard. We were not rich by any means but we were not poor. My grandmother used to do her washing in the basement once a week by lighting a fire in a big concrete copper to heat the water, which would have been there until demolition. ‘When we moved from number 3, I remember the upright piano that my grandparents used to play �’ and me of sorts �’ being lowered out of the top floor and taken away, presumably to be sold. I used to play with balls up on the wall of the chemist shop on the corner of Acklam and Portobello. We would mark numbers on the pavement slabs in a grid and play hopscotch. At the Portobello corner, on one side there was the Duke of Sussex pub, on the other corner, a chemist, later owned by a Mr Fish, which I thought was amusing. When I was very young I remember every evening a man peddling along Acklam Road with a long thin stick with which he lit the streetlights.’ Michelle Active who lived at number 33 remembers: ‘6 of us lived in a one-bed basement flat on Acklam Road. When they demolished it we moved to a 4-bed maisonette on Silchester Estate and I thought it was a palace, two toilets inside, a separate bathroom that was not in the kitchen, absolute heaven.’ Reply
Admin Paddington Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:44 GMT	The world’s first underground train The very first underground train left Paddington on the new Metropolitan Railway bound for Farringdon Street. Reply
EMC Ossington Street, W8 Added: 10 Jul 2023 22:35 GMT	Ossington Street, W8 correcting the date on my existing comment Source: Paddington: Bayswater \| British History Online Reply
PETER FAIRCLOUGH Brindley Street, W2 Added: 10 May 2021 14:46 GMT	We once lived here My family resided at number 53 Brindley Street Paddington. My grandparents George and Elizabeth Jenkinson (ne Fowler) had four children with my Mother Olive Fairclough (ne Jenkinson) being born in the house on 30/09/1935. She died on 29/04/2021 aged 85 being the last surviving of the four siblings Reply
Admin Olympia Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:17 GMT	TV comes to Olympia Over 7000 people queued to see the first high definition television pictures on sets at the Olympia Radio Show. The pictures were transmitted by the BBC from Alexandra Palace, introduced by Leslie Mitchell, their first announcer. Reply
David Jones-Parry McGregor Road, W11 Added: 7 Sep 2017 12:13 GMT	Mcgregor Road, W11 (1938 - 1957) I was born n bred at 25 Mc Gregor Rd in 1938 and lived there until I joined the Royal Navy in 1957. It was a very interesting time what with air raid shelters,bombed houses,water tanks all sorts of areas for little boys to collect scrap and sell them on.no questions asked.A very happy boyhood -from there we could visit most areas of London by bus and tube and we did. Reply
Southam Street, W10 Added: 30 Dec 2022 21:41 GMT	Southam Street, W10 do any one remember J&A DEMOLITON at harrow rd kensal green my dad work for them in a aec 6 wheel tipper got a photo of him in it Reply
Robert Burns Abourne Street, W9 Added: 5 Jan 2023 17:46 GMT	1 Abourne Street My mother, and my Aunt and my Aunt’s family lived at number 1 Abourne Street. I remember visitingn my aunt Win Housego, and the Housego family there. If I remember correctly virtually opposite number 1, onthe corner was the Lord Amberley pub. Reply
charlie evans The Apollo Added: 10 Apr 2021 18:51 GMT	apollo pub 1950s Ted Lengthorne was the landlord of the apollo in the 1950s. A local called darkie broom who lived at number 5 lancaster road used to be the potman,I remember being in the appollo at a street party that was moved inside the pub because of rain for the queens coronation . Not sure how long the lengthornes had the pub but remember teds daughter julie being landlady in the early 1970,s Reply
Former Philbeach Gardens Resident Philbeach Gardens, SW5 Added: 14 Jul 2021 00:44 GMT	Philbeach Gardens Resident (Al Stewart) Al Stewart, who had huts in the 70s with the sings ’Year of the Cat’ and ’On The Borders’, lived in Philbeach Gdns for a while and referenced Earl’s Court in a couple of his songs. I lived in Philbeach Gardens from a child until my late teens. For a few years, on one evening in the midst of Summer, you could hear Al Stewart songs ringing out across Philbeach Gardens, particularly from his album ’Time Passages". I don’t think Al was living there at the time but perhaps he came back to see some pals. Or perhaps the broadcasters were just his fans,like me. Either way, it was a wonderful treat to hear! Reply
Golborne Gardens, W10 Added: 14 Jan 2022 03:06 GMT	Goldbourne Gardens W 10 I lived in Goldbourne Gardens in the 50,s very happy big bomb site Reply
Richard Elgin Crescent, W11 Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:36 GMT	Elgin Crescent, W11 Richard Laitner (1955-1983), a barrister training to be a doctor at UCL, lived here in 1983. He was murdered aged 28 with both his parents after attending his sister’s wedding in Sheffield in 1983. The Richard Laitner Memorial Fund maintains bursaries in his memory at UCL Medical School Source: Ancestry Library Edition Reply
Richard Elgin Crescent, W11 Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:39 GMT	Elgin Crescent, W11 Richard Laitner lived at 24 Elgin Crescent Source: Ancestry Library Edition Reply

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Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Ashbourne College Ashbourne College is an independent school and sixth form located in Kensington.

Ashbourne College

Coach and Horses The Coach & Horses was situated at 108 Notting Hill Gate.

Coach and Horses

Kensington Market Kensington Market was a three storey indoor market at 49 Kensington High Street, created in late 1967

Kensington Market

Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century.

Kensington Palace

Royal Garden Hotel Royal Garden Hotel is a 5 star hotel in London, England.

Royal Garden Hotel

St Mary Abbot’s St Mary Abbots is a church located on Kensington High Street and the corner of Kensington Church Street in London W8.

St Mary Abbot’s

NEARBY STREETS

Airlie Gardens, W8 Airlie Gardens is named after the 5th Earl of Airlie (1826-1881), who lived on nearby Campden Hill at Holly Lodge.

Airlie Gardens, W8

Arundel House, W8 Arundel House is a block on Palace Green.

Arundel House, W8

Astley House, W8 Astley House is a block on Notting Hill Gate.

Astley House, W8

Aubrey Walk, W8 Aubrey Walk runs west of Campden Hill Road at the top of Campden Hill.

Aubrey Walk, W8

Bedford Gardens, W8 Bedford Gardens is one of the prime residential streets in Kensington.

Bedford Gardens, W8

Berkeley Gardens, W8 Berkeley Gardens is a short street which runs between Brunswick Gardens and Kensington Church Street containing terraced houses on both sides with small front gardens.

Berkeley Gardens, W8

Brunswick Gardens, W8 Brunswick Gardens runs north from Vicarage Gate - a wide tree-lined road with white stuccoed terraces on either side.

Brunswick Gardens, W8

Bulmer Mews, W11 Bulmer Mews is a tiny mews behind Notting Hill Gate.

Bulmer Mews, W11

Callcott Street, W8 Callcott Street is a small street between Uxbridge Street and Hillgate Place.

Callcott Street, W8

Campden Grove, W8 Campden Grove runs between Kensington Church Street and Hornton Street.

Campden Grove, W8

Campden Hill Close, W8 Campden Hill Close is a small cul-de-sac entered by a narrow driveway off Hornton Street.

Campden Hill Close, W8

Campden Hill Court, W8 Campden Hill Court is a street in Kensington.

Campden Hill Court, W8

Campden Hill Gardens, W8 Campden Hill Gardens runs northwards from Aubrey Walk.

Campden Hill Gardens, W8

Campden Hill Place, W11 Campden Hill Place is a road in the W11 postcode area

Campden Hill Place, W11

Campden Hill Road, W8 Campden Hill Road is a street in Kensington.

Campden Hill Road, W8

Campden Hill Square, W8 Campden Hill Square is a residential square consisting of large family houses.

Campden Hill Square, W8

Campden Hill Towers, W11 Campden Hill Towers is a block.

Campden Hill Towers, W11

Campden Hill, W8 Campden Hill is a hill and street in Kensington.

Campden Hill, W8

Campden House, W8 Campden House is a block on Sheffield Terrace.

Campden House, W8

Campden Street, W8 Campden Street stretches between Campden Hill Road and Kensington Church Street.

Campden Street, W8

David Game House, W11 David Game House is a block on Notting Hill Gate.

David Game House, W11

Drayson Mews, W8 Drayson Mews is a street in Kensington.

Drayson Mews, W8

Duchess of Bedford’s Walk, W8 Lady Georgiana Russell, wife of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford lived at Argyll Lodge, a former house on Campden Hill, near the location of the road.

Duchess of Bedford’s Walk, W8

Edge Street, W8 Edge Street is a street in Kensington.

Edge Street, W8

Farm Place, W8 Farm Place was formerly called Earnest Street.

Farm Place, W8

Farmer Street, W8 Farmer Street was formerly Farm Street.

Farmer Street, W8

Gate Hill Court, W11 Gate Hill Court is a block on Notting Hill Gate.

Gate Hill Court, W11

Gloucester Walk, W8 Gloucester Walk is a road in the W8 postcode area

Gloucester Walk, W8

Gordon Place, W8 Gordon Place is a street in Kensington.

Gordon Place, W8

Gregory Place, W8 Gregory Place is a street in Kensington.

Gregory Place, W8

Hillgate House, W8 Hillgate House is a block on Hillgate Street.

Hillgate House, W8

Hillgate Place, W8 Hillgate Place was formerly Dartmoor Street.

Hillgate Place, W8

Hillgate Street, W8 Hillgate Street was formerly Johnson Street.

Hillgate Street, W8

Hillsleigh Road, W8 Hillsleigh Road is a street in Kensington.

Hillsleigh Road, W8

Holland Street, W8 Holland Street is a street in Kensington.

Holland Street, W8

Hornton Street, W8 Hornton Street is a street in Kensington.

Hornton Street, W8

Inverness Gardens, W8 Inverness Gardens is a street in Kensington.

Inverness Gardens, W8

Jameson Street, W8 Jameson Street was formerly St James or James Street.

Jameson Street, W8

Kensington Church Court, W8 Kensington Church Court is a street in Kensington.

Kensington Church Court, W8

Kensington Church Street, W8 Kensington Church Street is a street in Kensington.

Kensington Church Street, W8

Kensington Church Walk, W8 Kensington Church Walk is a street in Kensington.

Kensington Church Walk, W8

Kensington Mall, W8 Kensington Mall is a street in Kensington.

Kensington Mall, W8

Kensington Palace Gardens, W8 Kensington Palace Gardens is a street in west central London with some of the most expensive properties in the world.

Kensington Palace Gardens, W8

Kensington Place, W8 Kensington Place is a street in Kensington.

Kensington Place, W8

Ladbroke Road, W11 Ladbroke Road is a street in Notting Hill.

Ladbroke Road, W11

Ladbroke Terrace, W11 Ladbroke Terrace was one of the first streets to be created on the Ladbroke estate.

Ladbroke Terrace, W11

Lancer Square, W8 Lancer Square is a street in Kensington.

Lancer Square, W8

Lucerne Mews, W8 Lucerne Mews is a street in Kensington.

Lucerne Mews, W8

Melon Place, W8 Melon Place is a street in Kensington.

Melon Place, W8

Newcombe House, W11 Newcombe House is a block on Notting Hill Gate.

Newcombe House, W11

Newcombe House, W2 Residential block

Newcombe House, W2

Newcombe House, W8 Newcombe House is a building on Notting Hill Gate.

Newcombe House, W8

Notting Hill Gate, W8 Notting Hill Gate is a main shopping and retail street.

Notting Hill Gate, W8

Observatory Gardens, W8 Observatory Gardens commemorates what was the world’s finest private observatory.

Observatory Gardens, W8

Old Court Place, W8 Old Court Place is a street in Kensington.

Old Court Place, W8

Palace Avenue, W8 Palace Avenue is a road in the W8 postcode area

Palace Avenue, W8

Palace Gardens Mews, W8 Palace Gardens Mews is a street in Kensington.

Palace Gardens Mews, W8

Palace Gardens Terrace, W8 Palace Gardens Terrace is a street in Kensington.

Palace Gardens Terrace, W8

Palace Green, W8 Palace Green is a street in Kensington.

Palace Green, W8

Peel Street, W8 Peel Street is a street in Kensington.

Peel Street, W8

Pembridge Road, W11 Pembridge Road is a street in London

Pembridge Road, W11

Pitt Street, W8 Pitt Street is a street in Kensington.

Pitt Street, W8

Plane Tree House, W8 Plane Tree House is a block on Phillimore Gardens.

Plane Tree House, W8

Rabbit Roe, W8 Rabbit Roe is a street in Kensington.

Rabbit Roe, W8

Sheffield Terrace, W8 Sheffield Terrace is a street in Kensington.

Sheffield Terrace, W8

Sheldrake Place, W8 Sheldrake Place is a street in Kensington.

Sheldrake Place, W8

St Mary Abbots Vicarage, W8 St Mary Abbots Vicarage is a street in Kensington.

St Mary Abbots Vicarage, W8

The Broad Walk, W2 The Broad Walk is a road in the W2 postcode area

The Broad Walk, W2

The Broadwalk, W2 The Broadwalk is a road in the W1H postcode area

The Broadwalk, W2

Thornwood Gardens, W8 Thornwood Gardens is a road in the W8 postcode area

Thornwood Gardens, W8

Tor Court, W8 Tor Court is a block on Hornton Street.

Tor Court, W8

Tor Gardens, W8 Tor Gardens is a street in Kensington.

Tor Gardens, W8

United House, W11 United House is a block on Pembridge Road.

United House, W11

Upper Phillimore Gardens, W8 Upper Phillimore Gardens is a street in Kensington.

Upper Phillimore Gardens, W8

Uxbridge Street, W8 Uxbridge Street is a street in Kensington.

Uxbridge Street, W8

Vicarage Court, W8 Vicarage Court is a street in Kensington.

Vicarage Court, W8

Vicarage Gardens, W8 Vicarage Gardens is a street in Kensington.

Vicarage Gardens, W8

Vicarage Gate House, W8 Vicarage Gate House is a block on Vicarage Gate.

Vicarage Gate House, W8

Vicarage Gate, W8 Vicarage Gate is a street in Kensington.

Vicarage Gate, W8

Victoria Gardens, W11 Victoria Gardens is a street in Notting Hill.

Victoria Gardens, W11

Victoria Mews, W11 Victoria Mews is a location in London.

Victoria Mews, W11

Wycombe Square, W8 Wycombe Square is a road in the W8 postcode area

Wycombe Square, W8

York House Place, W8 York House Place existed between 1839 and 1904.

York House Place, W8

York Passage, W8 York Passage is a road in the W8 postcode area

York Passage, W8

NEARBY PUBS

Churchill Arms The Churchill Arms was built in about 1824.

Churchill Arms

Coach and Horses The Coach & Horses was situated at 108 Notting Hill Gate.

Coach and Horses

Elephant & Castle

Mall Tavern

Notting Hill Arts Club

Old Swan

Polpo

Prince Albert The Prince Albert has been a Notting Hill feature since the 1840s.

Prince Albert

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The Hillgate

The Little Yellow Door

Uxbridge Arms

Windsor Castle

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Kensington

Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross.

The focus of the area is Kensington High Street, a busy commercial centre with many shops, typically upmarket. The street was declared London's second best shopping street in February 2005 thanks to its range and number of shops.

The edges of Kensington are not well-defined; in particular, the southern part of Kensington blurs into Chelsea, which has a similar architectural style. To the west, a transition is made across the West London railway line and Earl's Court Road further south into other districts, whilst to the north, the only obvious dividing line is Holland Park Avenue, to the north of which is the similar district of Notting Hill.

Kensington is, in general, an extremely affluent area, a trait that it now shares with its neighbour to the south, Chelsea. The area has some of London's most expensive streets and garden squares.

Kensington is also very densely populated; it forms part of the most densely populated local government district (the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) in the United Kingdom. This high density is not formed from high-rise buildings; instead, it has come about through the subdivision of large mid-rise Victorian and Georgian terraced houses (generally of some four to six floors) into flats.

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Notting Hill TUM image id: 1510169244 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Pembridge Road (1900s) TUM image id: 1556889569 Licence: CC BY 2.0	1829 map of Kensington Palace TUM image id: 1557149096 Licence:	The Bayswater Conduit in 1798. TUM image id: 1490459429 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Peter's Notting Hill Credit: Asteuartw TUM image id: 1530106709 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Churchill Arms, Kensington Credit: IG/lililondoner TUM image id: 1653837477 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Holland Arms on Kensington High Street, drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. The writer Joseph Addison was a frequent customer. Credit: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea TUM image id: 1623770043 Licence:	Abingdon Arms Pub, Abingdon Road. TUM image id: 1489943648 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Allen Street Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1593784668 Licence: CC BY 2.0	3-4 Ladbroke Terrace in 2006. TUM image id: 1453881424 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Possibly the most Instagramable mews in London, leafy Kynance Mews is hidden away in South Kensington, not so far from Gloucester Road station. Credit: IG/withinlondon TUM image id: 1691581234 Licence:	Marloes Road, W8 TUM image id: 1530121229 Licence:	Notting Hill in Bygone Days TUM image id: 1510166520 Licence:	Tower House, Melbury Road, Kensington Constructed between 1876 and 1881, Tower House has an unique medieval design by fantasist and architect William Burges. Every room was decorated in accordance with a unique theme drawn from nature with rooms dedicated to themes such as the Sea, Animals, astronomy and astrology. In 1969, Richard Harris acquired the house and then in 1973 Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin outbid David Bowie and purchased it for £350 000. Page welcomed the cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger to move into his basement and complete the post-production of his movie Lucifer Rising. However, Anger soon grew weary of living in what he described as Page’s "evil fantasy house". Credit: Geograph/Jim Osley TUM image id: 1677337202 Licence:	This video is a little different - no walks from anywhere to anywhere. This video looks at the snapshots of lives captured by postcard photographers in Notting Hill Gate at the turn of the 1900s. As these photographers were ’winging it’ - taking photos of streets in anticipation of these being snapped up by postcard publishers - they were drawn to capturing scenes full of people going about their everyday lives. This means that zooming into these high-definition photos we can take a look at captured scenes that those depicted weren’t aware were being taken. Credit: https://youtu.be/-Tqf2qTKTZM TUM image id: 1691688651 Licence:

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Notting Hill
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Ossington Street, W2 (2012)
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Pembridge Gardens (1904)
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Horbury Mews
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