Roland Gardens, London
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[edit]
Building on the street was started in 1870 by Charles Aldin and his sons Charles and William, with more than half completed by 1874, and the rest by 1893.[1]
Notable buildings and residents[edit]
- 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]
- Douglas Green, Australian artist, and his wife Helen lived at 21 in 1951.[3]
- Stanley Bate, composer, lived in a Roland Gardens flat from 1949 until his death in 1959.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Roland Gardens - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "Dugdale [née Balfour], Blanche Elizabeth Campbell". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62138. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 30 November 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-164521
- ^ Stanley Bate obituary, The Manchester Guardian, 20 October 1959, p. 2
External links[edit]
Media related to Roland Gardens at Wikimedia Commons
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