Plaque

The London Compendium gives 1950 as the year in which Aylward opened her shop, while Wikipedia reckons "antiques dealers arrived in the late 1940s and '50s". Whatever, it's been a lively antiques market for as long as most people can remember and this plaque has been here since at least 2005.

See Susan Garth for a related claim.

2025: Mr Little put us on to the excellent Ladbroke Association where we found: "Nos. 115-117 were probably built as a block ... No. 115 is believed to have been the address of the first antique dealer to move into the Portobello Road, June Aylward (1891-1965), who opened her shop around 1950. There is a plaque to her on the building."