Porchester Gardens is a street in the

Bayswater Bayswater is an area in the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...

area of

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. Located in the

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, it runs east to west and crosses Queensway. Like several streets in the area it was developed by

Edward Orme Edward Orme (1775 – 28 September 1848) was a British engraver, painter and publisher of illustrated books. He was also a property developer in Bayswater, where Orme Square was named after him. Early life Edward Orme was born in 1775 in Ma ...

. In 1879 the

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

R. E. B. Crompton Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, CB, FRS (31 May 1845 – 15 February 1940) was an English electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor. He was a pioneer of electric lighting and public electricity supply systems. The company he formed, Crompto ...

lit his house by

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...

, effectively the first in London to do so. The

department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...

Whiteleys Whiteleys was a shopping centre in Bayswater, London. It was built in the retail space of the former William Whiteley Limited department store, which opened in 1911 as one of London's first department stores, and was one of the main departmen ...

was located where the two streets joined before its closure.Weightman p.12 The road features a mixture of

residential A residential area is a land used in which houses, housing predominates, as opposed to industrial district, industrial and Commercial Area, commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include ...

and

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properties. At the eastern end,

Porchester Terrace Porchester Terrace is a street in the Bayswater area of London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs between Porchester Gardens in the north and the Bayswater Road to the south close to Kensington Gardens. Adjacent streets Leinster Garde ...

runs southwards to

Kensington Gardens Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Pa ...

while in the west it ultimately merges into Kensington Gardens Square and Leinster Square.

Moscow Road Moscow Road is a street in the Bayswater area of London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs eastwards from Queensway, London, Queensway to Pembridge Square. It was developed by the painter, publisher, and property pioneer Edward Orme in ...

runs parallel to the south for much of the route.

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* Brock, William H. ''William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science''. Routledge, 2016. * Cockburn, J. S., King, H. P. F. & McDonnell, K. G. T. ''A History of the County of Middlesex''. Institute of Historical Research, 1989. * Weightman, Gavin. ''Children of Light: How Electricity Changed Britain Forever''. Atlantic Books Ltd, 2011. * Rennison, Nick. ''The London Blue Plaque Guide: Fourth Edition: Fourth Edition''. The History Press, 2009. * Weinreb, Ben, Hibbert, Christopher Keay, John & Keay, Julia. ''The London Encyclopaedia''. Pan Macmillan, 2010. {{Coord, 51.51379, -0.18737, region:GB_type:landmark, display=title Streets in the City of Westminster Bayswater

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