West Kensington

West Kensington is a London Underground District line station in West Kensington. It is located on North End Road (B317) close to its junction with West Cromwell Road/Talgarth Road (A4). The station is between Earl's Court and Barons Court and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is situated in a cutting with the ticket office at street level.

North End was, until the last quarter of the 19th-century, a scattered hamlet among the fields and market gardens, between Counter's Creek and Walham Green in the Parish of Fulham in the County of Middlesex.In connection with the development of the Kensington Canal on the northern boundary of Fulham parish, Sir John Scott Lillie built the 'North End Brewery' complex in 1832. The attached public house was called the 'Lillie Arms' (today's Lillie Langtry in Lillie Road) and had a frontage of 140 feet along the newly laid out road running from Lillie Bridge (Fulham) to North End Lane. According to Féret the landlady was a Miss Goslin. All that remains of North End in memory is the North End Road, Fulham. In the 1880s, the area became known as West Kensington. West Kensington tube station on the Metropolitan District Railway, was originally called 'Fulham - North End'.

Gwendwr Gardens is a small park in West Kensington. In 1948 the area was donated to Fulham Council by the Gunter Estate for a memorial to the victims of German air raids in the area, particularly the Operation Steinbock raid on the night of 20 February 1944.The park contains a sunken area with a pond, lawns and a commemorative plaque.

West Ashfield underground station is a mock-up London Underground District line station on the third floor of Ashfield House in West Kensington. It is used for staff training purposes and was opened in 2010 at a cost of £800,000.

Barons Court Theatre is a small theatre of 52 cinema-style seats located in the basement of The Curtains Up public house in Comeragh Road in West London. Founded in 1991, the Barons Court Theatre features a programme of short-run plays and afternoon magic shows that are frequently changed.Ron Phillips has been the artistic director since the theatre's inception, and productions at Barouns Courthe Theatre included Sophocles's Antigone, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Ibsen's A Doll's House, Shakespeare's Richard III & Shakespeare's Women. Noted performers who have performed at the theatre include Sara Kestelman in Bitter Fruits of Palestine. The theatre also hosted The Magic Cavern, a theatre show of magic and illusion, presented by international magician Richard Leigh. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Barons Court Theatre has been closed for over a year. In 2021, artistic director Ron Phillips retired and was succeeded by Sharon Willems, previous artistic director of Kibo Productions.

North End Road is a street in West Kensington and Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It starts at Hammersmith Road (the A315), close to the Olympia exhibition centre, and runs south to Fulham Road (the A304), near Fulham Broadway. Its main junctions are with the A4 at West Kensington tube station, and with Lillie Road near the Clem Attlee Estate. The street is signed as the B317 for its entire length except for the short final section between Dawes Road and Fulham Road, which is part of the A3219. South of Lillie Road, there is the North End Road street market, which has been in operation since the late 19th century.

Independent Age is an older people's charity based in the UK. It has offices in London, Newcastle and Glasgow, and staff and volunteers based in a number of other UK locations. It is a registered charity in England & Wales and in Scotland. The charity was formerly known as the Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (RUKBA). In 2005, the charity re-branded and became known as Independent Age.

St. Andrew's Church, Fulham, also known as St. Andrew's Church, West Kensington, is a Church of England church located in West Kensington, near Fulham in southwest London. The church was founded in 1873. The church is notable for the fact that some of its parishioners were responsible for establishing Fulham Football Club. It has been Grade II listed since 2009.

The High Commission of Grenada in London is the diplomatic mission of Grenada in the United Kingdom. There has been a Grenadian High Commission in London since the independence of the country in 1974.

Lillie Bridge Depot is a historic English traction maintenance depot on the London Underground Piccadilly and District lines, situated between West Brompton and West Kensington stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is accessed from the District line tracks between Earl's Court and West Kensington or between Earl's Court and Kensington (Olympia). The Depot was constructed in 1871, when the Metropolitan District Railway gave notice to the Metropolitan Railway, who were running their trains for them, that they would henceforth run their own trains. Lillie Bridge Depot was built on derelict land to the west of Earl's Court, to provide stabling and maintenance facilities for the District Railway's rolling stock. In 1905, the District was extended, and a new depot at Ealing Common replaced Lillie Bridge. A year later, the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, later the Piccadilly line, was opened, and the depot was reconfigured to provide stabling and maintenance for their trains. Parts of it were used as a permanent way depot, until 1932, when extensions to the Piccadilly line created a new depot at Northfields, and the site was purely used by engineering departments. It was reconfigured at this time, and again in 1962 and 1987. It housed a flash butt welding plant for producing long welded rails between 1937 and the completion of the Victoria line, when this facility was transferred to Ruislip depot. Subsequently, it was used for maintenance of London Underground's fleet of battery locomotives. Although the District Railway ceased to use steam locomotives for passenger workings in 1905, two were kept at Lillie Bridge for shunting duties. From the 1940s, all of London Underground's steam locomotives were maintained at the depot, after facilities at Neasden Depot were closed, and this continued until the last steam locomotives were withdrawn in 1971. A pioneering electro-diesel locomotive spent long periods at the depot from 1940, undergoing repairs, and after the demise of steam, the works shunter was an 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic machine obtained from Thomas Hill of Rotherham. Its use was restricted, due to its short wheelbase and axle loading. The Depot is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2024 by Transport for London, as part of an Earl's Court regeneration scheme. Engineering facilities will be moved to Acton Works, and it will be replaced by stabling for twelve S7 Stock trains at a lower level, with redevelopment taking place above it. The scheme has not been universally popular, attracting criticism from the Mayor of London, the current Hammersmith and Fulham Council, local housing associations and residents.

Kensington Row is a £2 billion development in West Kensington, London W14. It is beside Warwick Road (part of the A3220), south of Kensington High Street. Kensington Row is being built by St Edward, part of the Berkeley Group. The development comprises 160 apartments over 4 blocks. The flats are a mix of private and social rented. Private flats in the development are priced from £1,575,000 to £3,545,000, and penthouses up to £13 million.On 20 June 2017, it was announced that 68 of the social rented flats had been acquired to provide permanent housing for families who had been made homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire of 14 June. The deal was negotiated by the Homes and Communities Agency on behalf of the British government, and the families will move in, in July and August. Grenfell Tower is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north.

1-5 Edwardes Place is a grade II listed terrace of five houses set back from but facing Kensington High Street, with the road into Edwardes Square running alongside no.1, with the similar but longer Earl's Terrace on the other side.The terrace was laid out and built from 1810 to 1819.The entire terrace was acquired by Hugh Morton Shand (1815–1890), British army officer and businessman.Alexander Faulkner Shand (1858–1936), the writer and barrister, and patrilineal great-grandfather of Queen Camilla, lived at no. 1.The terrace was grade II listed in 1969.