Roland Gardens, London

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Roland Gardens on an 1890s Ordnance Survey map, not long after it was built. (Running south from Old Brompton Road at the top) Roland Gardens, Drayton Gardens, Priory Grove, Harley Gardens.jpg
Roland Gardens on an 1890s Ordnance Survey map, not long after it was built. (Running south from Old Brompton Road at the top)

Roland Gardens is a street in South Kensington, London SW7. It runs north to south from Old Brompton Road to Drayton Gardens at its southern end, where it becomes Evelyn Gardens.

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History

Building on the street was started in 1870 by Charles Aldin and his sons Charles and William, with more than half completed by 1874, and the rest by 1893. [1]

Notable buildings and residents

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References

  1. "Roland Gardens - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. "Dugdale [née Balfour], Blanche Elizabeth Campbell" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62138. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 30 November 2017.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-164521
  4. Stanley Bate obituary, The Manchester Guardian, 20 October 1959, p. 2

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