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Old Brompton Road is a major street in the South Kensington district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. It starts from South Kensington Underground station and runs south-west, through a mainly residential area, until it reaches West Brompton and the area around Earl's Court tube station .
The old village of Brompton carried on straddling the secondary Brompton Lane, later Old Brompton Road, for the whole of its length. In modern terms Old Brompton centred on today's South Kensington tube station , Gloucester Road tube station and their contiguous streets, and continued all the way to West Brompton station , between Earl's Court ...
Brompton Road is sometimes confused with Old Brompton Road which lies further to the west in South Kensington. In the 1980s, a bomb unexpectedly went off just outside of Harrod's. A police man and some shoppers were killed. The IRA claimed responsibility, and that the bombing was unintended. [3]
Brompton Road is a disused station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, located between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations. It was closed in 1934, nearly 28 years after being opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway company.
Coleherne Court is a large apartment block on the Old Brompton Road in the Earl's Court district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Coleherne Court stands on the site of the former Coleherne House and Hereford House. It was built between 1901 and 1904. It was constructed in red brick and Portland stone. [1]
The Zetland Arms is a pub in South Kensington, London, on the corner of Old Brompton Road and Bute Street. It dates from the mid-1840s. [1] The pub is one of the few surviving original buildings from when this area was first developed. [2] In 1875, there was a brawl at the pub which started with insults about the Devonshire origin of some drinkers.
Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road in South Kensington, London. [1] It is the oldest and largest organisation dedicated to sculpture in the UK. [2] Until 2017, it was known as the Royal British Society of Sculptors. [3]
Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road Holland Park W14 8LZ 1958 () 389 : Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) "Painter and Writer lived here" 61 Palace Gardens Terrace Kensington W8 4RU 1983 () 637 : Jenny Lind (a.k.a. Madame Goldschmidt) (1820–1887) "Singer Lived Here" 189 Old Brompton Road South Kensington SW5 OBA 1909 () 674 : Sir Norman Lockyer