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Despite its name, the church of St Andrew's, Fulham Fields is located in West Kensington. It was built by Newman and Billing in 1873, consecrated in 1874, and enlarged by Aston Webb and Ingress Bell in 1894. West Kensington's main parish church, St Mary's, is located in Hammersmith Road, near the junction with Edith Road.
Blythe House is a listed building located at 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, UK. Originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, it is now used as a store and archive by the Victoria and Albert, Science and British Museums.
Victoria Boulevard was located adjacent to the railway at a critical point where the track turned west to Newport News. Therefore, this subdivision became a perfectly situated suburb for businessmen who either worked in Hampton, a short distance to the north, or worked in Newport News and preferred to take advantage of the relatively low land ...
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. [3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .
West Kensington is a London Underground District line station in West Kensington. It is located on North End Road (B317) close to its junction with West Cromwell Road/Talgarth Road . The station is between Earl's Court and Barons Court and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is situated in a cutting with the ticket office at street level.
Barons Court is between West Kensington and Hammersmith on the District line, and between Earl's Court and Hammersmith on the Piccadilly line and is in Travelcard Zone 2. [7] East of the station, the Piccadilly line descends into tunnel towards Earl's Court and the District line continues in a cutting to West Kensington.
The station has two entrances, one on Victoria Embankment and the other on Villiers Street. The station is adjacent to Victoria Embankment Gardens and is close to Charing Cross station, Embankment Pier, Hungerford Bridge, Cleopatra's Needle, the Royal Air Force Memorial, the Savoy Chapel and Savoy Hotel and the Playhouse and New Players Theatres.
This aerial shot of Victoria was taken in 1954 looking west. It shows the turntable and roundhouse in the lower left, and the passenger station and Norfolk division offices to the right of the tracks. Victoria was founded in 1906 as a planned community on what had been largely undeveloped land during the construction of the Tidewater Railway.