Roland Gardens, London
Roland Gardens on an 1890s Ordnance Survey map, not long after it was built. (Running south from Old Brompton Road at the top)
Roland Gardens is a street in South Kensington, London SW7. It runs north to south from Old Brompton Road to Drayton Gardens at its southern end, where it becomes Evelyn Gardens.
History[]
Building on the street was started in 1870 by and his sons Charles and William, with more than half completed by 1874, and the rest by 1893.[1]
Notable buildings and residents[]
- Blakes Hotel, is at no. 33, and is considered to be one of the world's first boutique hotels.
- The National Laboratory of Psychical Research was once at no. 13.
- The artist Collier Twentyman Smithers died in 1943 at no. 36.
- Blanche Dugdale, author and Zionist and her husband Edgar Dugdale, a Lloyd's of London underwriter, lived at no. 1.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Roland Gardens - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "Dugdale [née Balfour], Blanche Elizabeth Campbell". ODNB. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
External links[]
Media related to Roland Gardens at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 51°29′24.13″N 0°10′50″W / 51.4900361°N 0.18056°W
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