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…1860 for Joseph Toms of the Derry and Toms depart­ment store in Kens­ington. The improve­ment of railway services to Enfield Town in the early 1870s…

Cabmen’s shelters   Cabmen’s shelters are green-painted roadside sheds surviving at 13 locations in central London. Sir George Armstrong estab­lished the Cabmen’s Shelter Fund in…

Porto­bello Road, Kens­ington & Chelsea A char­ac­terful market street winding in a north-north-westerly direction from Notting Hill Gate, where it branches off Pembridge Road Vice-Admiral…

London’s ‘Remain’ vote in the EU Refer­endum Some boroughs were far more ‘pro-Remain’ than others Complex multi­plicity of reasons for the variation Foremost factor was…

Sands End, Hammer­smith & Fulham Fulham’s former indus­trial district, now the site of high-profile riverside devel­op­ments In the Middle Ages the western part of Sands…

Cranbrook, Redbridge A late-Victorian and Edwardian estate in north Ilford, also known as Cranbrook Park; the Cran Brook itself feeds the pond and lake in…

Fulham Road, Hammer­smith & Fulham/Kensington & Chelsea A fash­ion­able street extending two-and-a-half miles south-westwards from Brompton Cross to the grounds of Fulham Palace The ‘way…

Elfin Oak   The Elfin Oak is a tall, thick tree stump situated next to the Diana Memorial Play­ground on the north side of Kens­ington…

Natural History Museum   The Natural History Museum is the largest natural history collec­tion in the world, with over 70 million specimens, based on the…