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Prince of Wales Terrace
Showing position of W8 22.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 23 May 2022
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Embassies - Good Neighbours
Kensington is "Embassy Land". There is an obvious functional agglomeration of these in the rich housing area south of Hyde Park. These are the Belarussian and Mongolian embassies in Kensington Court.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 29 Nov 2006
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"Christmas is Coming"
Early Christmas decorations line the Milestone Hotel, Kensington. Christmas lights and shopping in London attracts much tourism. In the distance is Kensington Gardens.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 29 Nov 2006
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Kensington Street Signs
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea not only has many royal connections but also many literary ones. William Makepeace Thackeray lived in Young Street, Onslow Square, then had a house, "Palace Green", built in Kensington Palace Gardens where he died in 1863. Christmas decorations at the Milestone Hotel surround the sign.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 29 Nov 2006
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Victorian postbox on Kensington Road
Postbox No. W8 22.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 23 May 2022
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The Milestone Hotel, Kensington
On the junction of the A315 Kensington Road and Kensington Court Road (on the right).
The building is made-up of two Grade II listed houses, converted into a hotel.
See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-425031-the-milestone-hotel-1-ken sington and http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-417872-milestone-hotel-2-kensington for details about the two pink terracotta covered houses.
Note; decorated for the xmas.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 18 Dec 2011
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Hotel in Kensington Road
Near the Palace gate, south of Kensington Palace
Image: © Paul Gillett
Taken: 7 Nov 2009
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Old Milepost by the A315, Kensington Palace Gardens, Milestone Hotel
Cast iron post by the A315, in parish of KENSINGTON (KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA District), Kensington Palace Gardens; by Milestone Hotel, to right of Hotel entrance set into railings behind footpath, on South side of road. Middlesex cast iron, erected by the Kensington turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: HOUNSLOW / 8½ : : KENSINGTON / PARISH : : LONDON / 1½ :
Milestone Society National ID: MX_LB01A.
Image: © A Rosevear
Taken: 14 Jul 2001
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Benchmark on #21 Kensington Court
Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm47274
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 14 Feb 2013
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#21 Kensington Court
There is an OS benchmark
Image on the side of the near house above the white skirt at the junction with the front railings
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 14 Feb 2013
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