The 150 acre Notting Barns farm, with ‘an ancient brick building surrounded by spacious barns and outhouses’, came into the possession of Colonel Matthew Chitty Downes St Quintin of the Lancers Regiment in the late 1850s. St Quintin proceeded to build a well-to-do estate, originally as the Portobello Park, featuring Cambridge and Oxford Gardens, Basset, …
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Harrow Road, W10
Harrow Road is a main road through London W10.
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 …
Temperance and intemperance
The 1860s sexual revolution in Notting Hill and the vibrant local pub scene were inevitably accompanied by a proliferation of churches, chapels, convents, tabernacles and missions of all religious denominations. In the battle for the souls of the inhabitants of the Notting Hellmouth, the dark forces of drink, untidiness and inactivity had arrayed against them …
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
A Tale of Two Cities
In the new suburbs carved out by the middle classes to escape from the noise, smoke, dirt, and crowding of the central areas of Victorian London, poor and squalid enclaves could frequently be found. They were not there by accident. The comfortable suburb and the meaner suburb within it were mutually interdependent. The Potteries, Notting …
Bevington Road, W10
Bevington Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10
Banister Road, W10
Banister Road just scrapes being classed as belonging to the Queen’s Park Estate.
Barlby Road, W10
Barlby Road is a street in North Kensington, London W10