Category: Queen’s Park

Oliphant Street, W10

Oliphant Street was the final alphabetical street on the original Queen’s Park Estate naming scheme.

Harrow Road, W10

Harrow Road is a main road through London W10.

Beethoven Street, W10

Beethoven Street is a street in the Queen’s Park Estate.

Barfett Street, W10

Barfett Street is a street on the Queen’s Park Estate, W10

Banister Road, W10

Banister Road just scrapes being classed as belonging to the Queen’s Park Estate.

Farrant Street, W10

Farrant Street is the missing link in the alphabetti spaghetti of the streetnames of the Queen’s Park Estate

Alperton Street, W10

Alperton Street is the first alphabetically of the named streets of the Queen’s Park Estate in W10.

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 …

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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 …

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St Peter’s Park – a lost suburb

St Peter’s Park was formerly the name of a characterless suburb around Walterton Road. Until the spread of building in the mid 19th century, the area consisted of fields stretching westward from the Bayswater rivulet, bounded by Harrow Road to the south and by Kilburn Lane to the west and north-west. Westbourne Green lay along …

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