New Kensington Estate?

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Something I noticed a few weeks ago....... on Ilkeston Road just down from the junction with Forster Street.

Often you'll get a date and/or name built into the brickwork on the front of a building, but this one seems a bit different.

Was that area known as the Kensington Estate when it was first built? I've never heard of the name before

[taxi ray 170]

Not sure if it has anything to do with your question, but a lot of the streets around that area, between radford boulevard and st. peters street had names that relate to parts of London.

Dulwich road

Brixton road

Clapham street

Croydon road

Norwood road

Sydenham street

there is possibly more, but I cant see the names of some of the smaller streets.

The pub that was in the middle of all these streets was the Dover Castle, now turned into flats, so possibly the area was built by a company with Southern connections.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

It definitely looks like the person who named all the roads had a map of London to get ideas.

The New Kensington Estate fits that bill; it's just that I'd never heard the area referred to like that. Maybe the builders gave it that name but nobody ever actually used it

[littlebro 234]

Kensington Palace was built by the Earl of Nottingham, and Queen Victoria was born there.

It is possible that the builder of "The Jolly Higglers" on Ilkeston Road, and the streets and houses north of it, out of gushing loyalty, named the hamlet "Kensington;" or did he hope to rival the London suburb! This seems to be possible, for in the Directory of 1825 New Radford appears as "Islington, or New Radford."

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk

[Limey 242]

Good sleuthing and info Littlebro! Makes sense to me!

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Kensington Palace was built by the Earl of Nottingham, and Queen Victoria was born there.

It is possible that the builder of "The Jolly Higglers" on Ilkeston Road, and the streets and houses north of it, out of gushing loyalty, named the hamlet "Kensington;" or did he hope to rival the London suburb! This seems to be possible, for in the Directory of 1825 New Radford appears as "Islington, or New Radford."

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk

Never knew that. And by coincidence, in that link there's a reference to Bloomsgrove. A branch of my family lived in that Garden Street/Bloomsgrove Street/Hollins Mill area of Radford, so I have direct links to it all.

Also, my original question seems to have allowed littlebro to post his 1,000th message to this site

[littlebro 234]

According to the 1902 records of street names, there was a Kensington Square off Prince Street, it does not show on this map but it may have been a paved area rather than a formal "square"