Ladbroke Grove () is an area and a road in
West London
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The term is used to differentiate the area from the other parts of London: North London ...
in the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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, passing through
Kensal Green
Kensal Green is an area in north-west London. It lies mainly in the London Borough of Brent, with a small part to the south within Kensington and Chelsea. Kensal Green is located on the Harrow Road, about miles from Charing Cross.
To the w ...
and
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road M ...
, running north–south between Harrow Road and Holland Park Avenue.
It is also a name given to the immediate surrounding areas of
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road M ...
,
Latimer Road Latimer may refer to:
Places England
* Latimer, Buckinghamshire, a village
** Latimer and Ley Hill, a civil parish that until 2013 was just called "Latimer"
* Latimer, Leicester, an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicest ...
,
Kensal Green
Kensal Green is an area in north-west London. It lies mainly in the London Borough of Brent, with a small part to the south within Kensington and Chelsea. Kensal Green is located on the Harrow Road, about miles from Charing Cross.
To the w ...
and
Westbourne Park straddling the W10 and W11
postal districts although parts of the wider area cover parts of NW10.
Ladbroke Grove tube station
Ladbroke Grove is a London Underground station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2 set in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
History
Originally ope ...
is located on the road, at the point where it is crossed by the
Westway.
Ladbroke Grove is the nearest tube station to
Portobello Road Market
Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. On Saturdays it is ...
. The adjacent bridge and nearby section of the Westway were regenerated in 2007 in a partnership including
Urban Eye
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,
Transport for London and
London Underground
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. It is the main road on the route of the annual
Notting Hill Carnival
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean festival event that has taken place in London since 1966 . The northern end between the Harrow Road and
Kensal House
Kensal House is a housing estate of two curved blocks of 68 housing association Apartment, flats at the northern end of Ladbroke Grove, London, completed in 1937 and designed by the architect Maxwell Fry. It was the first Modern architecture, mo ...
is located in Kensal Green, the middle section between Barlby Road and the A40 flyover is in North Kensington with the southern end between Lancaster road and Holland Park Avenue situated in Notting Hill.
History
The area and the street are named after
James Weller Ladbroke, who developed the
Ladbroke Estate
The Ladbroke Estate was a substantial estate of land owned by the Ladbroke family in Notting Hill, London, England, in the early 19th century that was gradually developed and turned into housing during the middle years of the century, as London ...
in the 1840s. It was originally a predominantly rural area on the western edges of London. Construction at the southern end by Holland Park Avenue began in the 1830s, but the road was not fully developed to Harrow Road until the 1870s.
Hablot Knight Browne
Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.
Early life
Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot ...
, the cartoonist who illustrated
Charles Dickens
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' novels as "Phiz", lived at No. 99 in 1872–80.
Churches
The church of St John the Evangelist was constructed in 1845 on the site of the Hippodrome on the Ladbroke Estate, which had closed four years earlier.
The
Anglican
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church of St Michael and All Angels in the road was designed by
James Edmeston
James Edmeston (10 September 1791 – 7 January 1867) was an England, English architect and Surveyor (surveying), surveyor; he was also known as a prolific writer of Christian Church, church hymns.
He was born in Wapping, Middlesex, England. Hi ...
and built in the
Romanesque style
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in 1871. The funds were provided by J. E.Gray, the father of the first vicar, the Reverend Edward Ker Gray: the foundation stone was laid on 1 November 1870 by a cousin of the Grays,
John Mowbray. The church became fashionable with members of the Royal Family. The
Duke of Edinburgh
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played the violin in the church orchestra. The vicarage was built in 1876, with the foundation stone being laid by the
Duchess of Teck. The Lady Chapel was opened by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in 1882. However, in 1886, the Reverend Gray moved to the
Curzon Street Chapel and St Michael's became less fashionable.
The
Serbian Orthodox
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The majority of the population in ...
Church of St Sava is on Lancaster Road, just off Ladbroke Grove. The church building was originally built in 1903 as the Anglican church of St Columba; in 1952 it was re-consecrated as Saint Sava's, to serve a growing community of post-war refugees. It was the venue for the baptism of
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia ( sr, Александар Карађорђевић, Престолонаследник Југославије; born 17 July 1945 in London), is the head of the House of Karađorđević, the former royal h ...
, son of
Peter II, in 1945, and his second marriage in 1985. Princess Maria Tatiana, daughter of
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia
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Personal life
In 1934, when he was only five, Prince And ...
, was baptised there in 1957. In 2013, it was the venue for the memorial service of
Princess Margarita of Baden
Princess Margarita of Baden (''Margarete Alice Thyra Viktoria Marie Louise Scholastica''; 14 July 1932 – 15 January 2013) was the only daughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark. She was the cousin of K ...
.
The former church of Christ Church, Telford Road was opened in 1881, and closed in 1940 when the parish merged with St Michaels. The church building was demolished.
Music and culture
Ladbroke Grove was a centre of the British counterculture in the 1960s. The area was
blacklist
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ed for development following
1958 Notting Hill race riots
The Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially motivated riots that took place in Notting Hill, England, between 29 August and 5 September 1958.
Background
Following the end of the Second World War, as a result of the losses during the wa ...
, and consequently found favour with individuals who distrusted authority, moving into unmodernised Victorian properties along the road. The
space rock
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band
Hawkwind
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were formed here in 1969, and eventually bonded and worked with fantasy author
Michael Moorcock
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who was then a resident.
Moorcock's work often contain references to Ladbroke Grove, the location being the headquarters of his fictional characters
Jerry Cornelius
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and Colonel Pyat.
The Deviants (formerly the Social Deviants) and
Pink Fairies
Pink Fairies are an English rock band initially active in the London (Ladbroke Grove) underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug use, and anarchy, and often performed impromptu gigs and other stunts, s ...
were musical groups out of the Ladbroke Grove
UK underground movement, from which a number of bands would emerge, influenced by anarchistic singer/writer
Mick Farren
Michael Anthony Farren (3 September 1943 – 27 July 2013) was an English rock musician, singer, journalist, and author associated with counterculture and the UK underground.
Early life
Farren was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and aft ...
. Punk group
The Clash
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also formed locally in 1976; frontman
Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known professionally as Joe Strummer, was a British singer, musician and songwriter. He was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of punk rock band the Clash, ...
squatted
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around Ladbroke Grove before joining the group.
[ The '']Roughler
The ''Roughler'' chronicled life in Ladbroke Grove in the 1980s and 1990s before the last Bohemians were forced out. The magazine was single-handedly produced by Ray Roughler Jones, a refugee from Swansea, and contained contributions from The Clash ...
'' magazine emerged in the 1980s and 1990s to chronicle the antics of the more Bohemian residents, including the legendary Portobello Panto
Panto may refer to:
* Pantomime, a genre of musical comedy stage production, developed in England and mostly performed during Christmas and New Year season
* American pantomime, theatre entertainments in North America derived from the English ente ...
s.
Ladbroke Grove features as the scene of Van Morrison
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As a teenager in t ...
's 1968 song "Slim Slow Slider
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Recording and composition
As the final song on the album, "Slim Slow Slider" was also the last song recorded on the final ...
" from ''Astral Weeks
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'', and is mentioned in the 1970s pop hit "One Man Band" by Leo Sayer
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Sayer launched his career in the United Kingdom ...
. The Pulp
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* Pulp (fruit), the inner flesh of fruit
Engineering
* Dissolving pulp, highly purified cellulose used in fibre and film manufacture
* Pulp (paper), the fibrous material used to make paper
* Molded pulp, a packaging material
* ...
song "I Spy", from the album ''Different Class
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The album was a critical and commercial success, entering the UK Albums Chart at nu ...
'', features the line "your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on". The Blur songs "Fool's Day
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" and "Lonesome Street
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Track listing ...
" also feature Ladbroke Grove in their lyrics. As does the song "Joel" by The Boo Radleys
The Boo Radleys are an English alternative rock band who were associated with the shoegazing and Britpop movements in the 1990s. They originally formed in Wallasey, England in 1988, with Rob Harrison on drums, singer/ guitarist Simon "Sice" Ro ...
, with the line, "I've found myself in Ladbroke Grove" from the album '' Wake Up!''. The Slits
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song "Ping Pong Affair" from the album ''Cut
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Common uses
* The act of cutting, the separation of an object into two through acutely-directed force
** A type of wound
** Cut (archaeology), a hole dug in the past
** Cut (clothing), the style or shape of a garment
** Cut (ea ...
'', also features Ladbroke Grove in its lyrics. " LDN" by Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her music career began in 2005 when she made some of her vocal recordings publi ...
mentions Ladbroke Grove in an overdubbed
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chorus of London placenames. Killing Joke
Killing Joke are an English rock music, rock band from Notting Hill, London, England, formed in 1979 by Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards), Paul Ferguson (drums), Geordie Walker (guitar) and Youth (musician), Youth (bass).
Their first album, ''Ki ...
have released an EP (In Excelsis) that features two mixes of a song called "Ghost Of Ladbroke Grove". The UK rapper AJ Tracey
Ché Wolton Grant (born 4 March 1994), known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is from Ladbroke Grove, West London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by ''The Guardian'' i ...
's hit "Ladbroke Grove
Ladbroke Grove () is an area and a road in West London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, passing through Kensal Green and Notting Hill, running north–south between Harrow Road and Holland Park Avenue.
It is also a name given to ...
" is named after the road which he is from; it peaked at number 3 on the UK singles chart. Mahdi made his first music video in Ladbroke Grove. The posthumous music video of the Lil Peep release "4 Gold Chains
"4 Gold Chains" is a song by American rapper Lil Peep. It features production by American record producer Clams Casino and was released on May 14, 2018, by First Access Entertainment and Columbia Records.
It was named a "Best new track" by Pitc ...
" is set at 121 Ladbroke Grove.
In 1977, a brief encounter between musicians Phil Collins
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and Steve Hackett
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on Ladbroke Grove finalised the latter's departure from the progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
band Genesis
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Bible
* Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind
* Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...
.
From the 2010s to today Ladbroke Grove has been home to some of the most prominent grime and drill artists, such as AJ Tracey and Digga D.
Transport
Rail
Ladbroke Grove tube station
Ladbroke Grove is a London Underground station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2 set in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
History
Originally ope ...
is located halfway along the road, and is served by the Circle
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and Hammersmith & City lines. The Westway, part of a main road from Central London to Oxford
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crosses in the same location, though there is no junction. The road also has bridges over the Great Western Main Line
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from London Paddington station
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, and the Grand Union Canal
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.
Crossrail
At a site just to the east of the Old Oak Common site, Kensington and Chelsea Council
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has been pushing for a station at Kensal off Ladbroke Grove and Canal Way, as a turn-back facility will have to be built in the area anyway. Siting it at Kensal Green, rather than next to Paddington itself, would provide a new station to regenerate the area. Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
stated that a station would be added if it did not increase Crossrail's overall cost; in response, Kensington and Chelsea Council agreed to underwrite the projected £33 million cost of a Crossrail station. TfL is conducting a feasibility study on the station and the project is backed by National Grid, retailers Sainsbury's
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Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company wa ...
and Cath Kidston
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, and Jenny Jones Jenny Jones may refer to:
People
*Jenny Jones (presenter) (born 1946), United States television personality and host of ''The Jenny Jones Show''
*Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (born 1949), British Green Party politician, member of the ...
(Green Party member of the London Assembly). The plans were resurrected by Johnson in 2016.
Incidents
On 5 October 1999, two trains on the Great Western Main Line near Ladbroke Grove crashed into each other at a combined speed of over , leading to the diesel fuel of one of the trains igniting and setting fire to both. Thirty one people died and over 400 were injured, including severe burns. The cause of the crash was determined to be lack of suitable visibility of signals. The crash, combined with further major incidents at Hatfield and Potters Bar
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, shook confidence in the British rail network.
Bus
Ladbroke Grove is served by London Buses
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routes 7, 23, 52, 70, 228
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, 295, 316, 452 and N7.
Notable residents
*Rita Ora
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, British singer/songwriter grew up in Ladbroke Grove.
*AJ Tracey
Ché Wolton Grant (born 4 March 1994), known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is from Ladbroke Grove, West London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by ''The Guardian'' i ...
, rapper, best known for his song "Ladbroke Grove", grew up in Ladbroke Grove.
*Chrissie Hynde
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, American musician, lead vocalist with The Pretenders
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.
*Anthony Sampson
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, journalist and writer, 27 Ladbroke Grove
* Hugh Thomas, historian, 29 Ladbroke Grove.
*Hayley Atwell
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, a British and American actress, most widely known for portraying Agent Peggy Carter
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.
*Digga D
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, rapper, member of CGM.
*Javine Hylton
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, singer, hailed from Ladbroke Grove.
*Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her music career began in 2005 when she made some of her vocal recordings publi ...
, British singer/songwriter lives in Ladbroke Grove.
*Cleo Sol
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, British singer/songwriter, member of Sault
See also
* Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road M ...
* North Kensington
North Kensington is an area of west London. It is north of Notting Hill and south of Kensal Green and in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The names North Kensington and Ladbroke Grove describe the same area.
North Kensington is w ...
* Kensal Green
Kensal Green is an area in north-west London. It lies mainly in the London Borough of Brent, with a small part to the south within Kensington and Chelsea. Kensal Green is located on the Harrow Road, about miles from Charing Cross.
To the w ...
Notes and references
Citations
Sources
*
Bibliography
British History Online
* Barbara Denny, ''Notting Hill and Holland Park Past'', Historical Publications, 1993.
* Derry Moore, ''Notting Hill'', Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2007,
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