50 steps from Ladbrook Grove

The Tarmac Walkers to Waterloo Start: station Wednesday December 4th

1 Claudia Jones Founder Notting Hill Carnival Plaque 2 Sarm West Recording Studios Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Madonna Do they Know it's Christmas was recorded here Nov 1984 3 All Saints Road Front line of Black Community v police Notting Hill riots autumn 1958 and 1976 4 St Luke's Mews Paul Yates died at No 4 17/9/00 5 Powis Square Rachman's original properties 1950's West Indian immigrants 6 Tabernacle Originally Christian evangelical place of worship Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd rehearsed here The Clash played gigs 7 Electric 1911 England's First purpose built cinema Originally named The Imperial Playhouse 8 Portobello Market Road originally led to Portobello Farm Named after Puerto Bello a port in Mexico captured by British navy in 1739 9 142 In this arcade Thacker's bookshop was situated Where William Thacker (Hugh Grant) and Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) first meet 10 Notting Hill Book Shop Where research for "Notting Hill" was carried out Plaque 13 Blenheim Crescent 11 Jawaharial Nehru India's first prime minister lived at No 60 Elgin Cresc Plaque 12 Rosmead Gardens One of the many local sites in 1999 film Notting Hill Where William Thacker and Anna Scott sneak into to find privacy. 13 Avondale Park Built on what was The Piggeries early 19th century Pig farmers moved Here when the land around Marble Arch was developed 14 19th Century bottle kiln The Potteries a 19th century slum A centre for manufacture of bricks and tiles 15 Hippodrome Mews Name provides a link with Hippodrome racecourse Designed to upstage Ascot And Epsom but failed due to waterlogged ground 16 Lansdowne Cresc Jimi Hendrix died at the then Samarkand Hotel Nos 21-2 18/9/70 official cause inhalation of vomit and barbiturate intoxication 17 St John's Church Built at top of hill at was the centre of racecourse 18 The largest private communal garden in One of 13 in Notting Hill 19 Aubrey House One of 's grandest mansions 20 Statue of Lord Holland 3rd Baron Holland of Holland 21 Originally known as Cope's Castle built around 1605 Largely destroyed during the Blitz 22 Kyoto Garden Built 1991 A gift to and symbol of Britain - Japan cooperation 23 Tower House Owned by Richard Harris in 1960s Sold to Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) 24 Corner of Melbury Rd Owned by Robbie Williams valued at £60+ mill in 2011 Previous owner Michael Winner bought from parents for £150,000 in 1972 25 Designed by Louis Changeur during Napoleonic Wars Act of Parliament of 1819 residents must sweep outside their houses before 9am 26 Cornwall Gardens Typical of Kensington's huge white stuccoed mansion blocks 27 Kensington Square Sir Charles Hubert Parry (Jerusalem based on Blake's Milton) Popular with courtiers when Royal family moved to 28 St Mary Abbots Tallest spire of any London parish church 278ft 29 Kensington Church Walk Knife shop!!

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30 Kensington Palace Purchased by William 11 Extensively enlarged by William 111 and Queen Mary. Sir Christopher Wren 31 Physical energy statue A symbol of that restless physical impulse to seek that still unachieved 32 Diana, Princess of Wales memorial Two sides stream represent two sides of Diana's life happy times and turmoil 33 Sir Francis Galton 42 Rutland Gate First Person to suggest fingerprinting 34 Jane Austen 23 35 C Hoare & Co England's Oldest privately owned bankers 1670 Only other branch is in Fenchurch St 36 Motcomb St High St of Pantechnicon building originally a fireproof warehouse 37 Lillie Langtry 8 Walton Place Royal mistress 38 Achilles In honour of the Iron Duke First public statue to depict a naked man 39 The Grenadier One of the most hidden pubs in London Haunted by the ghost of an army officer caught cheating and flogged to death 40 Horse And Groom The Beatles local in the Sixties Round the corner from Brian Epstein's home 41 Henry Gray 8 Wilton St Gray's Anatomy Died from Smallpox 42 Sir Leslie Hore-Belisha Minister Of Transport in early 1930,s Road Traffic Bill 1934, driving tests, speed limits and pedestrian crossings 43 Westminster Cathedral Foundation stone 1895 fabric of building completed 1903 Interior still not complete, designed to be completed by future generations 44 St Matthews Built in centre of slum area of Devil's Acre Largely destroyed by fire in 1977 and rebuilt 45 St John's Smith Square Some of London's finest Georgian houses No 32, former Conservative party headquarters 46 8 Lord North St Public shelter sign 47 Lawrence of Arabia 14 Barton St 48 Dean's Yard Home to Westminster School And Church House head quarters of Church of England 49 Methodist Central Hall Opened 1912 can accommodate 2000 people 1946 inaugural General Assembly of the United Nations held here 50 "M" The original "M" fictionised in James Bond Sir Mansfield Cumming Chief of Secret Intelligence Service signed as "C"

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