Porchester Gardens is a street in the

Bayswater Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...

area of

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. Located in the

City of Westminster The City of Westminster is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and London boroughs, borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of cent ...

, it runs east to west and crosses Queensway. Like several streets in the area it was developed by Edward Orme. In 1879 the

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

R. E. B. Crompton Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, CB, FRS (31 May 1845 – 15 February 1940) was a British electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor. He was a pioneer of electric lighting and public electricity supply systems. The company he formed, Crompton ...

lit his house by

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described ...

, effectively the first in London to do so. The

department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic app ...

Whiteleys Whiteleys was a shopping centre in Bayswater, London. It was built in the retail space of the former William Whiteley Limited department store, which opened in 1911 as one of London's first department stores, and was one of the main department ...

was located where the two streets joined before its closure.Weightman p.12 The road features a mixture of

residential A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...

and

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properties. At the eastern end, Porchester Terrace runs southwards to

Kensington Gardens Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde P ...

while in the west it ultimately merges into Kensington Gardens Square and Leinster Square.

Moscow Road Moscow Road is a street in the Bayswater area of London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs eastwards from Queensway, London, Queensway to Pembridge Square. It was developed by the painter, publisher, and property pioneer Edward Orme in ...

runs parallel to the south for much of the route.

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* Brock, William H. ''William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science''. Routledge, 2016. * Cockburn, J. S., King, H. P. F. & McDonnell, K. G. T. ''A History of the County of Middlesex''. Institute of Historical Research, 1989. * Weightman, Gavin. ''Children of Light: How Electricity Changed Britain Forever''. Atlantic Books Ltd, 2011. * Rennison, Nick. The London Blue Plaque Guide: Fourth Edition: Fourth Edition''. The History Press, 2009. * Weinreb, Ben, Hibbert, Christopher Keay, John & Keay, Julia. ''The London Encyclopaedia''. Pan Macmillan, 2010. Streets in the City of Westminster Bayswater {{coord missing, London

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