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Pembroke Square is located in the
Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
area of southwest central London, England (postcode
W8). The whole square is
Grade II listed
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for its architectural merit.
It was developed by the
Hawks family
The Hawks family (c.1750 – 1889) was one of the most powerful British industrial dynasties of the British Industrial Revolution. The Hawks owned several companies in Northern England and in the City of London (including Hawks and Co., Hawks, C ...
.
The Hansom Cab is a Grade II listed
public house
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on the corner with Earls Court Road.
38 Pembroke Square was the house used as the surgery of Dr Hirsh in the movie ''
Sunday Bloody Sunday
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''.
The novelist
Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote ...
lived at No.13.
Immunologist Sir
Almroth Wright
Sir Almroth Edward Wright (10 August 1861 – 30 April 1947) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist.
He is notable for developing a system of anti-typhoid fever inoculation, recognizing early on that antibiotics would create resistant ...
lived at No.6
The playwright
John McGrath (playwright)
John Peter McGrath (1 June 1935 – 22 January 2002) was a British playwright and theatre theorist who took up the cause of Socialism in his plays.
Early life and career
From an Irish Catholic background, McGrath was born in Birkenhead, and edu ...
and his wife, the Scottish actress Elizabeth MacLennan lived at No 33a.
The artist
Alfred Leete
Alfred Ambrose Chew Leete (1882–1933) was a British graphic artist. Born at Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, he studied at Kingsholme School and The School of Science and Art (now Weston College) in Weston-super-Mare, before moving to ...
died at his home No. 34 in 1933.
Transport
There are two nearby underground stations,
High Street Kensington and
Earl's Court
Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the ...
. Both stations are served by the
District line
The District line is a London Underground line running from in the east and Edgware Road in the west to in west London, where it splits into multiple branches. One branch runs to in south-west London and a short branch, with a limited servic ...
which connects them to London's railway terminals.
There are also buses from High Street Kensington which go towards
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,
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
...
and
Wandsworth
Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan
The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Gre ...
. London bus routes
9,
10,
27,
28,
49,
52,
70,
328,
452,
C1, night routes N9, N28, N31, N52 and coach route 701/702.
References
Squares in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Kensington
Communal gardens
Garden squares in London
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