Walton Street, London

Walton Street, London SW3 in 2007

Walton Street is a street within west London's Chelsea district, bordering Knightsbridge. It runs south-west to north-east from Draycott Avenue to Walton Place, parallel to Brompton Road to the north.

It is known for its boutiques and restaurants. ^[1]

On 18 November 1975, the Walton's Restaurant bombing took place, when an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant without warning, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen. ^[2]

Notable residents

• Jahangir Hajiyev and Zamira Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani banker and fraudster, and his wife ^[3]
• Edwin La Dell (1914–1970), artist^{[ citation needed ]}
• Berthold Wolpe (1905–1989), printer, at No. 102 ^[4]

References

1. "The London Magazine". www.thelondonmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
2. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1975" . Retrieved 15 June 2016.
3. Neate, Rupert (10 October 2018). "'McMafia' law: woman who spent £16m at Harrods is jailed banker's wife". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
4. "The Gazette" (PDF). 22 August 1947. Retrieved 14 November 2019.

External links

Media related to Walton Street, London at Wikimedia Commons

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