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The Zetland Arms is a pub in South Kensington, London, on the corner of Old Brompton Road and Bute Street. It dates from the mid-1840s. [1] The pub is one of the few surviving original buildings from when this area was first developed. [2] In 1875, there was a brawl at the pub which started with insults about the Devonshire origin of some drinkers.
Another major landmark along the road is the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, commonly known as the Brompton Oratory. The Embassy of Uruguay is located at no. 150. [2] Brompton Road Underground station was halfway between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations on the Piccadilly line, just east of the Brompton Oratory. It closed on ...
South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton . [ 1 ] Its name was supplanted with the advent of the railways in the late 19th century and the opening (and shutting) and naming of local tube stations. [ 2 ]
Thurloe Lodge is a house at 17 Thurloe Place in the South Kensington district of London. It was the home of the actor manager Nigel Playfair and was subsequently the home of Mark Birley who founded Annabel's nightclub in Berkeley Square. Birley's daughter, India Jane Birley, sold Thurloe Lodge in 2011 for £17 million.
The Finborough Theatre is a fifty-seat theatre in the West Brompton area of London (part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) under artistic director Neil McPherson.
The Boltons is a street and garden square of lens shape in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (postcode SW10). [1] [2] The opposing sides of the street face the communal gardens (as two non-semicircular crescents) with large expansive houses and gardens, in what is considered the second most expensive street in the country with an average ...
Arcade Forming North West Quarter of Circle and Avenue Brompton Cemetery, Kensington and Chelsea: Gate: 1839–40: 15 April 1969: 1225713: Arcade Forming North West Quarter of Circle and Avenue
South Kensington SW5 0JR 1960 () 429 : Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) "Poet and Journalist, Lived and Died here" 31 Bolton Gardens South Kensington SW5 0AQ 1931 () 185 : Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988) "Choreographer lived here 1959–1984" 8 Marlborough Street Chelsea SW3 3PS 2016 () 41423 : Princess Serafina Astafieva (1876–1934)