Albion Mews, W2

Albion Mews is a cobbled cul-de-sac that is approached through an entrance under a building on Albion Street.

The Mews is one of a number of mews called Albion orginally. There was an Albion Mews North, an Albion Mews West and this one before the others were renamed.

Albion Mews is part of the Church Commissioners’ Hyde Park Estate, and Westminster City Council’s Bayswater Conservation Area.

The Mews contains 16 properties used for residential purposes. The Mews runs approximately North-South in similar configuration to Archery Close, another original/surviving Mews around the corner, off Connaught Street. The Mews originally provided stable/ coach house accommodation for the larger houses in Albion Street. Conservation Area controls now apply to new development in the Mews.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Justin Russ Binney Street, W1K Added: 15 Feb 2021 20:25 GMT	Binney Street, W1K Binney St was previously named Thomas Street before the 1950’s. Before the 1840’s (approx.) it was named Bird St both above and below Oxford St. Reply
www.violettrefusis.com Wilton Crescent, SW1X Added: 17 Feb 2021 15:05 GMT	Birth place Violet Trefusis, writer, cosmopolitan intellectual and patron of the Arts was born at 2 Wilton Crescent SW1X. Source: www.violettrefusis.com Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

North Harrow Added: 11 Apr 2021 20:03 GMT	North Harrow The North Harrow Embassy Cinema was closed in 1963 and replaced by a bowling alley and a supermarket. As well as the cinema itself there was a substantial restaurant on the first floor. Source: Embassy Cinema in North Harrow, GB - Cinema Treasures Reply
KJ Glengall Road, SE15 Added: 11 Apr 2021 12:34 GMT	Family 1900’s Cranmer family lived here at 105 (changed to 185 when road was re-numbered) James Cranmer wife Louisa ( b.Logan) They had 3 children one being my grandparent William (Bill) CRANMER married to grandmother “Nancy” He used to go to Glengall Tavern in Bird in Bush Rd ,now been converted to flats. Reply
charlie evans The Apollo Added: 10 Apr 2021 18:51 GMT	apollo pub 1950s Ted Lengthorne was the landlord of the apollo in the 1950s. A local called darkie broom who lived at number 5 lancaster road used to be the potman,I remember being in the appollo at a street party that was moved inside the pub because of rain for the queens coronation . Not sure how long the lengthornes had the pub but remember teds daughter julie being landlady in the early 1970,s Reply
Graham O’Connell Lloyds Wharf, SE1 Added: 10 Apr 2021 10:24 GMT	Lloyd & Sons, Tin Box Manufacturers (1859 - 1982) A Lloyd & Sons occupied the wharf (now known as Lloyds Wharf, Mill Street) from the mid 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Best known for making tin boxes they also produced a range of things from petrol canisters to collecting tins. They won a notorious libel case in 1915 when a local councillor criticised the working conditions which, in fairness, weren’t great. There was a major fire here in 1929 but the company survived at least until 1982 and probably a year or two after that. Reply
Joyce Taylor Lavender Road, SW11 Added: 5 Apr 2021 21:05 GMT	Lavender Road, SW11 MyFather and Grand father lived at 100 Lavender Road many years .I was born here. Reply
Beverly Sand Havering Street, E1 Added: 3 Apr 2021 17:19 GMT	Havering Street, E1 My mother was born at 48 Havering Street. That house no longer exists. It disappeared from the map by 1950. Family name Schneider, mother Ray and father Joe. Joe’s parents lived just up the road at 311 Cable Street Reply
Fumblina Lancefield Street, W10 Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:13 GMT	St Jude’s Church, Lancefield Street Saint Jude’s was constructed in 1878, while the parish was assigned in 1879 from the parish of Saint John, Kensal Green (P87/JNE2). The parish was united with the parishes of Saint Luke (P87/LUK1) and Saint Simon (P87/SIM) in 1952. The church was used as a chapel of ease for a few years, but in 1959 it was closed and later demolished. The church is visible on the 1900 map for the street on the right hand side above the junction with Mozart Street. Source: SAINT JUDE, KENSAL GREEN: LANCEFIELD STREET, WESTMINSTER \| Londo Reply
Fumblina Lancefield Street, W10 Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:08 GMT	Wedding at St Jude’s Church On 9th November 1884 Charles Selby and Johanna Hanlon got married in St Jude’s Church on Lancefield Street. They lived together close by at 103 Lancefield Street. Charles was a Lather, so worked in construction. He was only 21 but was already a widower. Johanna is not shown as having a profession but this is common in the records and elsewhere she is shown as being an Ironer or a Laundress. It is possible that she worked at the large laundry shown at the top of Lancefield Road on the 1900 map. She was also 21. She was not literate as her signature on the record is a cross. The ceremony was carried out by William Hugh Wood and was witnessed by Charles H Hudson and Caroline Hudson. Source: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31280_197456-00100?pId=6694792 Reply

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Marble Arch

Marble Arch station was opened on 30 July 1900 by the Central London Railway.

Like all the original stations on the CLR, Marble Arch was served by lifts to the platforms but the station was reconstructed in the early 1930s to accommodate escalators. This saw the closure of the original station building, designed by the architect Harry Bell Measures, that was situated on the corner of Quebec Street and Oxford Street, and a replacement sub-surface ticket hall opened further to the west. The new arrangements came into use on 15 August 1932. The original surface building was later demolished.

The platforms, originally lined in plain white tiles, were refitted with decorative vitreous enamel panels in 1985. The panel graphics were designed by Annabel Grey.

The station was modernised in 2010 resulting in new finishes in all areas of the station, apart from the retention of various of the decorative enamel panels at platform level.

LOCAL PHOTOS

Marble Arch, 2016 Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=352348 TUM image id: 1510054281 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Somerset House, Park Lane: house (right) and stables (centre) in 1912, from junction of Park Lane and Oxford Street. Credit: British History Online TUM image id: 1510057932 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Speaker’s Corner, April 1987 Speakers here at this corner of Hyde Park nearest of Marble Arch may talk on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed, but in practice the police intervene only when they receive a complaint. Credit: Wiki Commons/Michael E. Cumpston TUM image id: 1607876169 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Montagu House, Portman Square TUM image id: 1510140427 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A view of Tyburn (1750) Credit: Old and New London: Volume 5. Edward Walford (1878) TUM image id: 1510156812 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Baker Street station (1890) Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1557150556 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The 1807 Hyatt map Credit: British Library TUM image id: 1485272957 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Serpentine Gallery with the 2008 Pavilion. Every year since 2000 the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens has commissioned a temporary summer pavilion by a leading architect. The series presents the work of an international architect or design team who has not completed a building in England at the time of the Gallery’s invitation. Each Pavilion is completed within six months and is situated on the Gallery’s lawn for three months for the public to explore. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1607872711 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, in Hyde Park, London (2006). Although described as an oval stone fountain, it has the form of a large, oval stream bed of about 50 by 80 metres. The 545 individual pieces of Cornish granite were cut by S. McConnell & Sons, in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. Credit: Wiki Commons/CGP Grey TUM image id: 1607944697 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Connaught Square, 2004 Credit: Andrew Dunn, TUM image id: 1510185099 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Fountains Abbey (2020) TUM image id: 1583775118 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Lisson Green TUM image id: 1593182694 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Shillibeer Place sign Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1491316677 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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A view of Tyburn (1750)
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Fountains Abbey (2020)
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