Dogs

FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL DOG OWNERS AND DOG WALKERS SUMMER 2021   PLEASE REFRESH YOURSELVES WITH YOUR GARDEN COMMITTEE’S RULES FOR DOGS IN OUR GARDEN. WE HAVE TWENTY

Building Work

If you are planning to erect scaffolding at the rear of your property or to introduce building machinery into the gardens via one of the garden gates, you will

Useful Information

Local Police The nearest Police Station is: Notting Hill Gate Police Station99-101 Ladbroke Road,W11 3PLOpen 24 hrshttp://content.met.police.uk/PoliceStation/nottinghill Colville Ward Police Team020 8721 300507768 178110colvile.snt@met.police.uk Refuse Collection Refuse Collection days:

1953 – Kensington Improvement Act

When the Council is finally asked to take over the gardens, the secretary had to get the consent of all the freeholders and leaseholders. To help with this exhausting

1952 – The Postwar Years

The war and the trench shelter were the “coup de grace” for the concept of an “ornamental pleasure ground” the shelter had destroyed the east end of the garden. The compensation

1940 – Bombed

On 26 th September, 1940, between 1 and 1.15 am a incendiary bomb fell in the garden somewhere near 2 – 4 Ladbroke Gardens. Unfortunately, the bomb incident map

1939 – The Trench Site no 13

Inside the shelter the four W.C.s are latrines, with two buckets apiece. According to the Local War Instructions of 28th July, 1939, the shelter is to be supplied with

1938 – The War

At the beginning of September 1938 the Home Office instructed the borough council to dig exploratory trenches for shelters for the 12,000 people the police estimate as likely to

1937 – Inadequate Funds

Wage rises and reluctant rent payers mean less labour.  While the garden rent remained the same, wages had risen by around 70% since the war. The budget would only run to a

1928 – Between the wars

The evidence shows a garden striving to maintain the ideal of an “ornamental pleasure ground”. A loyal gardener plants a number of our present flowering shrubs as well as