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#everysinglestreet [25/11/20] The last of the roads off Edge Lane

Graham Holland    

Stats

  • Wednesday 25th November 2020
  • 23 streets – Empress Road, Adelaide Road, Albany Road, Albert Edward Road, Battenberg Street, Bell tower Lane, Birstall Road, Connaught Road, Edinburgh Road, Guelph Street, Gwenfron Road, Hall Lane, Holborn Street, Jubilee Drive, Kensington, Kensington Street, Leopold Road, Mount Vernon Green, Renfrew Street, Saxony Road, Smollett Street, Teck Street, Thornes Road.
  • Total: 1,948 (34.64%)
  • Remaining: 3,675

Notes

The roads between the end of Edge Lane and the end of Kensington are in Kensington Fields Conservation Area. The streets are all un-tarmaced and still have the original sets (the proper name for cobbles). I’ve been trying to work out if the street names here have anything in common. Empress, Leopold (Leopold II of Belgium?), Jubilee, Saxony, Albert Edward (Edward VII), Edinburgh, Connaught. Any ideas? UPDATE: Check the Facebook comments below. It seems they’re all connected with Queen Victoria and her jubillee (diamond jubilee, 1897?).

At some point the Council decided they didn’t want cars driving along the entire length of these roads from one end to the other, so they introduced sections that force you to turn left (or right), along to the next junction, then left (or right) again to complete a long U.

At the end of Jubilee Drive there’s a gap in the terrace where a house once stood. Rather than replacing it with another house they’ve left it as a small garden.

Between the ends of Leopold and Adelaide there’s a patch of land with raised beds. The whole thing is overgrown and is just waiting for someone from the local community to transform it into a place for people to grow vegetables like the one I saw in Gillmoss.

There’s a stark contrast at the end of Edge Lane between the old Georgian terraced houses and the modern buildings in the Paddington development.

I could start an album of photos entirely filled with photos of cats in windows.

On Teck Street there’s a small, detached, new house that’s been built to look like an old cottage. Could this have been a condition of the Conservation Area?

I easily checked Battenberg Street off my list. You could say it was a piece of cake!

It’s strange running along Hall Lane and remembering when it was the main road. Now it’s a quiet residential street thanks to the Hall Lane Gateway Scheme.

Guelph Place used to be a narrow pedestrian street but has since been blocked off with alley gates. It still has its original road sign on the wall.

Kensington Library is fantastic. The engraving above the entrance says ‘Free Lending Library and Reading Room’, and the Sir Francis Bacon quote below it says:-“Reading maketh a Full manConference a Ready man& Writing an Exact man”

There’s a grand, red-bricked building on the corner of Edinburgh and Jubilee. I don’t know what it was originally, but then I don’t know what it is now!

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