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4 giorni fa · The demolition of Jennings Buildings, the creation of Baron Grant's Kensington House and garden, their precipitate replacement with Kensington Court, and the High Street's rise to status as a smart shopping district, all changed the circumstances of these small houses.
5 giorni fa · This is first of the Survey's four volumes to cover Kensington, an area synonymous with Victorian architecture. It concerns the area to the north of Kensington High Street, extending as far as Kensal Green, where large-scale building development took place between the 1820s and 1880s.
5 giorni fa · Derry and Toms at Nos. pp-121 (odd) Kensington High Street (left to right), decorated for peace decorations in 1919. Nos. 99-101 heightened by Josiah Houle, architect, 1892 (p. 89)
5 giorni fa · Barkers of Kensington is established as drapers on Kensington High Street. The Opera Comique opens in Westminster. 1871 29 March: The Royal Albert Hall opens in South Kensington; it incorporates a grand organ by Henry Willis & Sons which is the world's largest at this time. 24 April: Murder of servant girl Jane Clouson in Eltham.
5 giorni fa · The main campus is in South Kensington where most teaching and research takes place. A second campus in White City serves as a platform for innovation. The college also operates teaching hospitals across London, forming an academic health science centre.
6 giorni fa · This is a complete list of the 189 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . At inception in 1876 the scheme was originally administered by the Royal Society of Arts, being taken over by the London County Council (LCC) in 1901. The Greater London Council (GLC) took over the ...
5 giorni fa · The Hall. Another piece inspired by one of the great writers of Japan’s past, in this case Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), sometimes called the ‘Shakespeare of Japan’, marks the fourth installment of Japan House London’s film season exploring Mizoguchi Kenji’s works from the 1950s.
