FRANK BRIDGE - 4 Bedford Gardens Holland Park London W8 7EH

Bedford Gardens is a street in Kensington, London. It runs west–east from

Campden Hill Road Campden Hill Road is a street in Kensington, London W8. It runs north to south from Notting Hill Gate to Kensington High Street. History Campden Hill Road was originally called Plough Lane. By 1879, William Abbott, a stockbroker, "held the leas ...

to Kensington Church Street. The street was originally called Bedford Place. In 1824, William Hall the elder and William Hall the younger planned to build more or less identical late Georgian terraces on both sides of the street. Only the eastern halves were finished, due to the sudden death of William Hall the younger in 1829 or 1830. The western end was developed largely with semi-detached houses.

Marie Rambert Dame Marie Rambert DBE (born Cyvia Rambam; 20 February 188812 June 1982) was a Polish-born English dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher. Early years and background Born to a liberal ...

had a ballet school and studio there in 1920, and remained there until 1927, when she moved to the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, which became the home of the

Ballet Rambert Rambert (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingd ...

until 1987. In the early 1980s, Roger Tully purchased Rambert's late nineteenth-century dance studio in Bedford Gardens. Number 77 became a studio and living space for several artists; Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde and John Minton, as well as

Jankel Adler Jankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler; 26 July 1895 – 25 April 1949) was a Polish-Jewish avant-garde painter and printmaker active primarily in Germany, France and England. He began his career as an engraver in Belgrade before studying ar ...

Notable residents

Frank Bridge 4 Bedford Gardens blue plaque

Notable residents have included: * #77

(1895–1949), Polish painter and printmaker *

William Thomas Blanford William Thomas Blanford (7 October 183223 June 1905) was an England, English geologist and natural history, naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma''. Biogra ...

, geologist and naturalist * #4

Frank Bridge Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor. Life Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a ...

(1879-1941), composer, violist and conductor * #43 Archibald Ross Colquhoun, first Administrator of Southern Rhodesia * #77 Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962), painter, printmaker and theatre set designer * #12 Edgar Downs (1876–1963), artist *

Henry Justice Ford Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. He came to public attention when he provided the illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, sold worldwide in the 18 ...

(1860–1941), artist and illustrator * #5

Eva Le Gallienne Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) was a British-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A Broadway theatre, Broadway star by age 21, in 1926 she left Broadway behind to found the Fourteenth St ...

(1899-1991), actress, producer and director * #5

Richard Le Gallienne Richard Le Gallienne (20 January 1866 – 15 September 1947) was an English author and poet. The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter by his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (1863–19 ...

(1866-1947), author and poet * #77 Robert MacBryde (1913–1966), still-life and figure painter and theatre set designer * #77 John Minton (1917-1957), painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher * #77 Arthur Berry (1925-1994), painter, poet, playwright and teacher * #48

Charles Mozley Charles Alfred Mozley (29 May 1914 – 11 January 1991) was a British artist who was also a teacher. He was a prolific book illustrator and designer of book covers, posters and prints. Biography Mozley was born in Darnall, Sheffield, and, ...

(1914-1991), artist * Andrew Dickson Murray (1812–1878), lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist * #54 Alfred Parsons (1847–1920), illustrator, landscape painter and garden designer * #52 Henry Edward Watts (1826–1904), journalist

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