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Barlby Road
Previously Edinburgh Road. The site of demolished carriage sheds and sidings
Pall Mall Deposit. warehouses of 1911 by W. G. Hunt, , boldly advertised by large lettering in blue and white mosaic,
Clement Talbot works, the first purpose-built English car factory, 1903-11 by William T. Walker. This is also of reinforced concrete (Hennebique system), the office block disguised by a front; totalitarian one-storey works behind. Handsome entrance hall with relief decoration.
Older industries and utilities that grew up beside canal and railway began to give way in the 1980s to a mixture of offices, workshops, and housing,
Sainsburys supermarket of 1989 by the canal.
Bassett Road
Bombing. Busy stucco terraces,
Calderon Place
Cambridge Gardens
Bombing
Canal
Portobello Dockbuilt in 1890-1 as transfer station by Kensington Vestry, a picturesque evocative of the era of horse-drawn dustcarts. The carts ran onto a curved blue brick ramp to a deck above the canal dock tipping their contents either into barges below or into the low arched openings between dock and canal. Refuse Transfer Station by St. Mary Abbott’s vestry, which was the forerunner of Kensington Borough Council of 1896. Empty carts went out at the top exit of the site into Ladbroke Grove. The pub opposite was the manager's house. Originally St.Anne's Dock with rubbish for West Drayton
Port-a-Bella restaurant.
Boundary stone on the south-west comer.
Virgin, 1988-9 by Christopher Watts Associates
Crowthorne Way
Darfield Way
Exmoor Street
St.Charles Hospital. Built in 1870 by an institutional specialist, artist Saxon Snell. It has a Water tower, a Gothic chimney, and cast iron two storey porches between the ward blocks. It was transferred to London County Council from St.Marylebone Board of Guardians.
Kelfield Gardens s
Counters Creek goes there and picks up two tributaries from Ladbrook Grove
Latimer Road
76-100 shoddy terrace
187-189 Harrow School mission 1884 and school 1887. Norman Shaw church, clubhouse and vicarage Harrow Club. Counters creek runs under it. This is a picturesque group which originated as a mission church, and the great window is now prominent from the raised slip road of the M40. Mission room 1883-4 is the former Holy Trinity church with clergy house and clubroom. The church was converted to a youth club in 1967 by A.G. Savill.
Little Wormwood Scrubs:
Counters Creek going across it
Marylebone Hospital
North Kensington
A poor district with cottage industries, called ‘Soapsud Island’ until the laundries moved to Acton. Workers form brick works at Notting Barns. This is the area where slum landlord Peter Rachman later flourished. Big mixed race area.
Royalty Cinema. Compton organ installed. (Kinestra.)
North Pole Road
St.Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs Station. 1stAugust 1871. Built by the West London Railway. Sited on the east side of Scrubs Lane between North Pole Road and Delgrano Gardens with the entrance from North Pole Road. This was a modest structure,perched high on the embankment. Opened as ‘Wormwood Scrubs Station’. In 1892 it was renamed ‘St.Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs’ and in 1893 closed and resited slightly further north on the east side of Scrubs Lane between North Pole Road and Dalgrano Road. In 1940 it was closed - yet another wartime casualty and Being of wooden construction Hitler ensured few remains and it was destroyed by an incendiary bomb. In the 1960s there may have been some platform foundations still in the undergrowth
Oakworth Road
Kensington Memorial Recreation Ground
Oxford Gardens
Bombing. Good sequences. Leafy. by the St Quintin estate
uintin Avenue
Scrubs Lane
St.Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs Station 1871-1893. Sited on the east side of Scrubs Lane between North Pole Road and Delgrano Gardens with the entrance from North Pole Road. This was a modest structure, perched high on the embankment, and which closed in 1940 - yet another wartime casualty. Being of wooden construction. Hitler's fearsome weaponry ensured few remains, although there may have been some platform foundations sprouting from the undergrowth in the mid-1960s.
Silchester Road
Baths. A fine complex, designed by Thomas Verity and built in 1882 to serve residents of North West Kensington. It contains several swimming pools, slipper baths, and a public laundry with washing stalls, roller-mounted drying horses and some early belt-driven washing machines. Below is a boiler room and above a flat for the Superintendent. The facilities were closed in 1974/5» and subsequently 'listed' by the DOE.
Silchester estate
Rebuilding began in the 1950s, on an unacceptably grandiose scale of post-war public housing, in the area around Silchester Road
St Helen's Gardens
St Helen
St Mark's Road
103-123 Pioneering housing association development. Jeremy Dixon.
Sheltered housing for the elderly 1987-90 by Phippen, Randall Parkes for Servite Housing.
202 houses in modest cottage groups built for the borough in 1919-26 by A. S. Soutar.
St Quintin Avenue,
Name from St.Quintin family, lived locally, built up 1878
More modern type of house
57 40ft walled garden; wide selection of plant material.
Scampton Mews
St Charles Square,
College of St.Charles
St Pius X
Kensington Borough Council flats and maisonettes with high rents
Treverton Street
Y-shaped towers of flats of the 1950s form obtrusive landmarks
Wallingford Avenue
Westway Flyover
Counters Creek under it
Opened to Gerrard's Cross 1943
Wood Lane Approach Road