Category Archives: Streets
Snarsgate Street and the Hytex Rubber Factory
Running off the northern end of Latimer Road is Snarsgate Street, a short cul de sac of formerly two up, two down terraced cottages. David Walker has sent has sent in some photos and memories of the street in the … Continue reading
Posted in North Pole Road, Streets, Uncategorized
Tagged Hytex, Latimer Road, Snarsgate Street
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Cafe Society around the North Pole by Allan Seabridge
In the 1950s and early 60s, North Pole Road and surrounding area was a café-free zone. Teenagers could buy a bottle of pop from Kent’s and drink it hanging around a shop doorway, or venture into the North Pole pub … Continue reading
My North Kensington schooldays Allan Seabridge
I spent my entire school life living in North Kensington and went to two schools. One was in Latimer Road, and the other in Du Cane Road, strictly speaking in Hammersmith. However, a number of pupils in the grammar school … Continue reading
Posted in Schools, sport, Streets
Tagged coronation, Du Cane Road, Latimer Road. Freston Road, North Pole Road, St Clement Danes
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SEEDY CLUBS AND DIVES OF NOTTING HILL 1956 – 1970
Prologue: In June I curated and led a walk around W.10 and W.11 focusing on this topic. I was conscious that the establishments we covered by no means constituted a comprehensive list so I am posting my working notes from … Continue reading
Posted in Before the Westway, Golborne, Shops, Streets, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, 1960s, All Saints Road, Blenheim Crescent, Clubs, crime, Drugs, Golborne Road, Mangrove, Portobello Road, Totobags
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The Mews of North Kensington – Dave Hucker
Mewed is a French word describing a building where Falcons were Mewed, or left to shed their plumage. The first use in London was for the Royal Mews which were round about where the National Gallery is on Trafalgar Square. … Continue reading
A Second hand Clothing shop in Portobello Road by Pat Terry and Mick Kasmir.
Our stepfather Alfred Kasmir came over to England when he was six from the Ukraine with his parents and sister, Regina. We have not got a lot of the history of this time except that his father Isaac bought a … Continue reading
Posted in Local industries and businesses, Shops, Streets, Uncategorized
Tagged Christie, Evans, Jack's Fish, Kasmir, Kirk's, Portobello Road, Radio Rentals, Timothey Evans
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Horsmans West London Saw Mills and Joinery Works
The Electric Cinema is a Portobello landmark. Building work for it started in 1910 and it opened on 27th February 1911. It was built on the site of a Saw Mill and Timber Yard, which the Trade directories of the … Continue reading
Posted in Local industries and businesses, Streets, Uncategorized
Tagged Electric Cinema, Horsman, Mortelmans, Piccadilly hotel, Portobello, White City
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Maxilla Gardens
In recent years Maxilla Walk (previously Maxilla Gardens) has been familiar to the local community as a small patch of green that hugs the motorway. For many years it was used annually for the much loved Westway fireworks display (sadly … Continue reading
Posted in Before the Westway, Streets, Uncategorized
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, coal, Joss Acland, Lancaster Road School, Maxilla, Oxford Gardens School, Sidney Lipton, St Mark's Rd, White City
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North Kensington Histories 