North Kensington

Posts about North Kensington written by Dave Walker

LONDON’S first teenagers and ‘spivs with their molls’ are among those caught on camera in a stunning set of pictures from the 1950s. Photographer Roger Mayne captured everyday scenes in Kensington …

Posts about North Kensington written by Dave Walker

North Kensington Family House - Turner Pocock

Dave Walker from RBK&C Local Studies recently put a posting on his excellent blog that he called The Science District of North Kensington. These were the streets, named after eminent Victorian …

This post starts just off Ladbroke Grove, like we have before, and with a request for further information from a friend of Local Studies who wanted to know when this picture was taken. This is the …

I’m grateful this week to one of our volunteers, who found these pictures together in an envelope among a collection of pictures given to us by the Planning department .They originate in anot…

The building below featured very briefly in the recent BBC programme on Portland Street in the “Secret history of our street” series. It’s the Notting Hill Brewery which was located at the northern…

This week we have the long awaited return of my occasional co-blogger Isabel Hernandez who grew up in the area sometimes called North Paddington and has many memories of it as it changed in the ye…

Before the Motorway was built, Latimer Road ran all the way from North Pole Road south towards Shepherd’s Bush. It was a familiar walking route for those in North Kensington, ending at Norlan…