Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and most of the railings around the central garden are original but building sites were let or sold piecemeal. The first house occupied was no.2 in 1828; the other early houses which remain were completed at various dates up to 1842.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
W8, Campden Hill Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Campden Hill Square
Developer and builder. British History Online says that in 1823 he bought "ov...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Campden Hill Square
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
We haven't collected the seated ballerina statue since it is not commemorative, as far as we know, but it does belongs to the select grou...
This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accidentally attached it too low on the wall and then quietly swea...
The plaque gives his first names as Reginald Albert in that order. However, his birth is registered as Albert Reginald. The 1901 census l...
The wall to which the plaque is affixed is free-standing and not much longer than you can see in the photo. Just south of this point is ...
T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 1888 - 1935, lived here. Greater London Council