Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and most of the railings around the central garden are original but building sites were let or sold piecemeal. The first house occupied was no.2 in 1828; the other early houses which remain were completed at various dates up to 1842.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
W8, Campden Hill Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Campden Hill Square
Developer and builder. British History Online says that in 1823 he bought "ov...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Campden Hill Square
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
Cy Grant, 1919 - 2010, activist,writer,musician, pioneering actor and WWII RAF navigator, lived here 1962 - 2010. Nubian Jak Community Tr...
Jet Harris MBE, 1939 - 2011, musician, was born at the former Willesden Maternity Hospital which stood on this site. The Heritage Foundation
Gerald Finzi, 1901 - 1956, English composer, was born here. City of Westminster
See Royal Polytechnic Institute for some of the history of this building.
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