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Meanwhile Gardens
Meanwhile Gardens is an urban park, community garden and nature reserve in Westbourne, London, Westbourne, North Kensington, London. History Foundation Meanwhile Gardens was created from waste ground within a working class/immigrant district in what was then referred to as "North Paddington". This space had become available following tenement Slum clearance in the United Kingdom, slum clearance and rehousing in the early 1970s. The park was created by community effort in 1976, initiated by local artist, sculptor and engineer Jamie McCulloch, who led a neighbourhood group to resist speculative commercial development taking over the site.Meanwhile Gardens history @ Meanwhile Gardens Community Association homepage McCulloch successfully petitioned Westminster City Council to consider allowing community gardening to use the spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westbourne Park Tube Station
Westbourne Park is a London Underground station. It is located in the Notting Hill area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The station is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines between Ladbroke Grove and Royal Oak stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2. History Although the Metropolitan Railway (MR) had been extended to Notting Hill and Hammersmith on 1 June 1864, the first station by this name did not open until 1 February 1866. In 1867, with the companies on better terms, the MR bought a share of the Hammersmith & City Railway (H&CR) from the Great Western Railway (GWR), after which it eliminated the broad gauge track and operated almost all the trains (the H&CR's identity being effectively lost). The original station closed on 31 October 1871, and was replaced the following day by a new station, constructed to the west of the original. To remove this traffic from its own busy main line, the GWR built a new pair of tracks from Paddington to Westbourne Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
